The commercial real estate company, Cushman & Wakefield, has drawn up plans of how offices may look after the coronavirus crisis in Spain and beyond. The consultancy firm has presented a prototype called 6 Feet Office, promoted by its division in Holland, although it is already being implemented in different countries such as Spain. The measures include the installation of transparent screens between desks and workstations and the placement of vertical and horizontal visual aids (on the floor) to prevent contagion and to organise employee traffic in the different spaces.
The European business network is preparing to return to work after COVID-19 and offices are one of the spaces that are going to see the most changes in the short term. During recent weeks, companies have focused on organising and optimising productivity with the majority of employees teleworking, but now many have started to focus on and design the return to the office. The goal is to optimise resources and ensure the health of all those who return to their physical workplace.
Some national media have pointed to the possibility that Pedro Sanchez's Spanish Government will recommend that companies - who can afford it - continue with teleworking after 11th May (the date set by the Executive to potentially start easing confinement regulations). In this sense, companies themselves will also be studying all the factors in order to reduce the risk of spreading infection, facilitate practicalties for families (given that children will not return to school this term) and save costs on rent.
In any case, companies know that not all their employees will be able to continue with working from their homes. For this reason, they have also begun to design the future of their office spaces in the short term. With this in mind, Cushman & Wakefield has already implemented a prototype for the return to the office and to help companies facilitate a safe return to work in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic.
As mentioned, this project, called 6 Feet Office, has been promoted by the division of the consultancy firm in the Netherlands and is already being implemented in different countries, including Spain. The real estate consulting firm intends to apply this project to all its offices, while serving as a guide to other companies and extending this model to the spaces where its clients work.
The project is based on prototypes of new offices and relationship modes, based on the knowledge and experience of C&W in China, in its return to normality. "It is designed to advise our clients to adapt their habits, processes and spaces to safeguard the health of their employees and clients, in a dynamic way and conditioned by changes in regulations, technical aspects and medical and legal perspectives", explains Óscar Fernández, head of Business Development PDS at Cushman & Wakefield España.
The process to adapt the offices to this model includes six phases: a prior analysis of the specific work environment, the application of a set of basic health rules, the implementation of a visual code for each office, the adaptation of the particular workplace and the certification that all the measures have been adopted successfully. The project has been built on the premise of maintaining the safety distance between people within the same space at all times.
This objective is achieved thanks to the arrangement of the internal elements in offices, among which the installation of screens stands out, but also by making use of visual aids, such as circles that mark a worker's personal space or arrows that indicate the direction of the flow when moving around the office.
"Our company has created this project based on the information provided by the World Health Organisation, thanks to the advice of medical specialists, and with the previous experience of China, where it has experienced the reincorporation of millions of Chinese people in their jobs first hand", concludes Fernández.
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