Don’t say it too loudly, but the end just might be in sight.
More than a year after the great ‘work-from-home’ office exodus began, the great vaccine roll-out is finally bringing the next new normal into (slow) focus.
Not a return to the old normal of five-days-a-week, fully-occupied offices [*shiver down spine*].
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Not a continuation of the current new normal of five-days-a-week enforced home working [*sigh of relief*].
But a NEW new normal of, say, two days a week in the office and three days working from home or visiting customers.
Sound good? You betcha!
But – as has been the case all along – UC has a big part to play.
Onboarding workforces back into the office won’t just be a case of rebooting idle security passes and refilling the water cooler.
A COVID-secure ‘touchless’ environment, video-equipped smart meeting rooms, and connected-yet- socially-distanced collaborative work zones will feature high on all of the best-designed plans to bring people back.
A hybrid mix of putting safety first whilst simultaneously leveraging the latest tech in order to permanently reset the way in which our physical offices operate.
All beautifully unified, naturally.
“We’re already having conversations with customers about how their new office will look and work,” says James Spencer, Video Collaboration Lead at global unified audio and video vendor Jabra, which is on the front foot in this latest UC call to action.
“Post-pandemic onboarding will go hand-in-hand with physical office remodelling. Office environments will be better than before. They will need to offer workforces a richer experience so that people are encouraged to return"
“We have been involved in the development of touchless schemes in which meeting rooms are video linked with the latest cameras that offer 180-degree fields of view. It means participants can be spread across several rooms to aid social distancing but still feel like they are in one space together.
