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COVID Norms for Office Interiors

There is no point in arguing that the COVID-19 pandemic has completely changed the ways we used to perceive our work lives. Several businesses are adapting to the new flexible work hours, while others are offering work from home. While this predictability is nothing new, we will have to follow all the COVID norms even post-pandemic. So, the sole purpose of this article is to discuss all the COVID norms that can be implemented within office interiors.

Office Interior Ideas Following COVID Norms

1) Layouts Prioritizing Physical Distancing 

One of the biggest challenges that offices need to overcome is the six-foot distance between two workspaces. While the government may not mandate the same for a longer duration of time, this can always make the employees feel safer. In the past few decades, office desks kept on shrinking with the advancement of technologies.

Offices with open layout interior designs would certainly appreciate the heads up. On the contrary, with constricted workspaces, offices should only designate workspace for employees with fixed working hours. This, in turn, can minimize the population on campus, while maintaining proper distancing among them.

2) Open Floor Plans are Going to Stay

Even a year ago, open floor design might have been considered an unproductive use of resources. Aside from keeping your employees apart from one another, there are several advantages to open floor plans. Keeping up with the preventive measures, open floors are always easier to clean. In fact, it also minimizes the surfaces your employees can touch.

3) Smaller Conference Rooms

With more employees either working from home or opting for flexible work hours, there’s very little to almost no need for larger conference rooms. In fact, cutting down the size of the conference room will ensure seamless connectivity within the office. On the contrary, offices need to step-up their AV game with majority of the employees connecting via video conferencing.

This is one of the investments that can offer better returns over time. Another nifty feature that offices can include is motion detected doors. This, in turn, can minimize the point of contact for each employee.

4) Educating the Employees

For a user interior design must appeal visually second to the functionality of the space. In these tough times, employees should be constantly reminded about the social distancing and all the COVID norms. This includes raising awareness in the form of decals, floor stickers as well as emblems. Not only within the office space, but the same goes for the retail environments as well.

Now is the best time than ever to actually break the norm and experiment with unconventional plans. Even companies should encourage their employees to think outside the box to keep up the workflow with the same efficiency as before.

The Bottom Line

While encouraging designs that are in accordance with covid norms, most changes are temporary  in nature, even though our near future continues to be affected by the pandemic but eventually after the global crisis dies down, many spaces will go back to functioning at optimal capacity. Coping up with the changing environment is going to be our new normal. That being said, all the above-mentioned interior provisions are some of the best ways in which you can promote physical distancing ensuring everyone’s safety.  At the same time, we can carry on with the workforce with 100% efficiency.