TWEP - Episode 6 - Return To The Office (Part 2)

The Workplace Experience

This is the second series of our discussions on investing in expert workplace change management services to encourage employees to feel comfortable about returning to work at the office.
We discuss the importance of re-education of people expectations on room capacity and creating new habits by sub-conscious reminders by subtle and informative signage.
The topic of having consistent social distancing rules in place that would meet the needs of your organisation at any peak period of a further pandemic should be adopted to provide longer term security for employees that the workplace is safe. It will also assist to ensure social distancing compliance.
If there are new facilities in the workplace, then how people can take advantage of these should be communicated clearly.
Also remember, organisations may have to adopt a stage approach to delivering their new workplace, so once the strategy experts understand what parts of the business are now predominately working from home, who is and how they are using the office then this will determine what the next step of workplace modification need to be.
When engaging with your workforce, a experienced change manager will not lead employees to an answer, but broadly ask the question to understand what the true concerns are, so it can be solutioned in the best interest of all stakeholders.
Early data is showing reduction in productivity by up to 20% for people that are not use to working from home, remembering prior to the pandemic only a small part of the working population worked from home for long periods of time.