The current pandemic that we’re all experiencing for the first time in our lives has presented us with numerous tough challenges. Millions of employees around the world have abandoned their offices and now work from their own homes. In just a matter of days, the workforce of an entire planet has transformed entirely into something no one has ever witnessed before. The sudden shift to working remotely while at the same time having the mental capacity to maintain the professional spirit was something everyone thought unachievable, but here we are!
Isolation areas
The first step an employer has to do just before getting every single individual back to work is being prepared for the worst. An infected employee could result in the shutdown of a business if they transmit the virus to other individuals. When someone begins to have any symptoms, whether in a reception area or a common area, the firm or organization responsible for building the business has to have a designated isolation room. Any space could be transformed into an isolation room, but does any employee or manager have the mental capacity to deal with the situation? An honest answer to that could be “it depends”. To make sure everyone is prepared for a situation like this, a training program would be ideal for employers and employees.
Physical distancing
In such challenging times, numerous professional workers who left their coworking spaces in huge cities worldwide are soon heading back to their offices. A suggestion to keep working individuals safe while everyone’s slowly transitioning into this new reality is the utilization of an entire workplace, accommodating physical distancing. Keeping the already existing layout of furniture and seating can be a smart way to provide the latest endorsements for safe physical distancing.
Seat tracking
Essential employees should carefully be spread across the coworking space and temporarily get assigned to a desk previously assigned to someone who had been tested negative for the Covid-19 virus. Communication skills are a must for those who want to apply this to their own coworking space. Before the pandemic, each person working in a firm had a role. After the pandemic, the same person could now receive clarity and safety by getting assigned to a specific desk and avoiding fearing getting and transmitting the virus. When all seats are assigned, organizations should then focus on unavoidable common spaces such as bathrooms. In our times, public and private agencies should be able to reassure everyone working for them that the hygiene of the coworking space is at a high level by providing daily cleaning services.
Returning to work plans
Limited seating available only to identified key workers could improve details for organizations in charge of reintroducing employees into co-working spaces after a long time of self-isolation. The time frame between each individual and group, going back, will be solely based on one’s health and the necessity to work. As the weeks go by, we’re starting to witness huge firms and organizations being challenged and even going into bankruptcy just because of the physical absence of employees into coworking spaces. The safe reintroduction of all key employees will help these organisations get out of debt and bring a renaissance era into coworking spaces, and, therefore, raise everyone’s spirit.
Getting back to the office
Going back to any workspace, for a lot of people, means putting themselves and their families in danger but in reality, is a smart way of reinventing their personalities and expanding their social skills while at the same time serving a purpose that was almost lost: practising the jobs, they fought to get. People are still scared and trying to protect their loved ones but going back to work is much safer than everyone thinks. If all working individuals abide by the rules an organization has set for everyone’s greater good and, most importantly, their health, no one will fall victim to the invisible, vicious enemy called COVID-19. So set up the office with all the necessary appliances, hand sanitizing products, HVAC equipment, and refreshing decor to make them welcoming and cosy and safely start working in the office again.
Final thoughts
The reintroduction of employees in coworking spaces will result in a better quality of in-person communication. Still, it will also serve as a reawakening period for many people’s mental shutdown due to covid’s quarantine restrictions and the fear and guilt implanted into them by the media. Covid is real, but taking precautions is also real and has results.
