Is Your Office Ready?
We explain what companies need to do in bringing their teams back to the office. We also share how we are planning to get our office ready and entice people back to the office.
The core challenges businesses face to get their people back to the office are that many people enjoy working from home, and there’s a big focus on people’s attitudes towards COVID and staying safe. Many people have misconceptions that making your office COVID secure is going to be extremely costly. Some simple measures that have been relatively inexpensive to achieve combined with a focus on people’s behaviours have proved very effective.
01. People need people
The main reason that businesses will want to start transitioning people back to the office is that people need people. They inspire each other. They give each other confidence, and that is all about health and wellbeing. The culture of your company and the ability to work together is what makes your brand.
02. Compromised culture
In the initial period of the pandemic, everybody went to work from home. When you’ve got new people joining or when you just haven’t seen your team for many months, those relationships are going to start to break down. Your ability to be creative and collaborate is going to be affected. Your culture as a business is going to be compromised. Therefore, your financials could be affected by that.
03. Virtual burnout
The main challenge working from home can be distractions of family life, not having a great setup and the technology side of things. But the main challenge was loneliness during locked down. Loneliness is one of the major driving factors for people coming back to work.
The other thing is virtual burnout, making call after call after call on Teams or Zoom. When you become locked in a single environment, it becomes much harder to be creative going forward. Having space available for your employees to come to is going to be valuable.
Companies need to entice people back to the office.
During the pandemic, we have been working on our office ‘Revitalise & Reset’ project. We are going through the planning and design.
n process. We have incorporated COVID requirements. The now is about an immediate reaction to what we can do in line with the current guidelines and the transition in getting people back to the office.
Zircon Interiors provides office fitout services in terms of the physical design and build, but we’re also able to give advice and consultancy to companies looking to relocate. We offer bespoke commercial fitouts and refurbishments in Melbourne, Sydney and throughout Australia. We will advise our clients in line with the current guidelines, with keeping their people safe. We have over 30 years of experience that we can share with others. The workplace is different for all of our clients. But we’re here to go on that journey with them, and we will use our experience to make sure it’s a seamless journey.
