(08-25-2020, 02:27 PM)Protheroe Wrote:(08-25-2020, 02:25 PM)baggy1 Wrote: Surely that is market driven and not anything else. What fields are they in? And just because they can't sit together, does that mean they can't operate?
Legal Services, Construction Consultancies, Actuaries, Patent Attorneys and the like. They can operate to some extent WFH, but the knock on effects for the legions of young workers who don't have the benefit of a garden room or attic conversion to use as an office look disastrous to me.
That's in direct contrast to our FS operation whereby we are all working from home globally, I see Fujitsu also have said that they will continue to work from home indefinitely now and do away with the offices they use eventually (they have basically a small town of high rise offices in Japan).
If I were advising a company anything it would be to ride it out until the restrictions ease as there might not be a need for alterations. Having said that we have installed new temperature scanners and are operating with restricted numbers in office (I went in yesterday and there were 3 of us and half a dozen workmen making adaptations). We'll be out until October at the earliest globally and don't see the need to go back in.
The market for offices is going the same way as shops I'm afraid, but that is market driven as much as anything.
And probably worth pointing out that very few staff have garden rooms or attic conversions but are coping fine. We've arranged for staff to take chairs where needed and generally everyone is gearing up for longer tern wfh at least on a part time basis.