Workers face return to the office

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As more and more businesses call for their employees to come back to working from the office instead of from home, we speak to expert Will Scott about what this means for companies and their employees.

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00:00Covid massively changed the way in which we work and some companies that probably just

00:05accelerated it but for others it was a huge huge shift and people really didn't know what was

00:11going on you suddenly left everyone working from home and you know there was a question raised I

00:17think then as to whether or not the office was dead and in the past but evidently as we've seen

00:22there's a massive increase in people coming back but what we're left with at the moment

00:28is a period of huge change and really for a company to make the best and of this change

00:36there needs to be a really careful consideration about how that company works what is the best

00:43working practice for them is that hybrid working or is that predominantly working from the office

00:48but with flexible hours for example I guess as this return to the office and trying to work out

00:53the office spaces is that is that causing a lot of tension between employers and employees

00:57what the survey really showed is that employers are looking at ways to incentivize people to come

01:02back to the office and you know those incentivize that sort of that is by creating a better space in

01:10which to work so you know I think it's looking at creating a much more inviting and all-inclusive

01:16space is it really to do with that configuration of how we can maybe try and keep the benefits we've

01:23had of working from home for employees whilst bringing them back into the office and how are

01:28businesses looking to do that you know one of the drivers of people coming in is because they want to

01:33be with their colleagues but also things like better IT you know quite often at home the IT isn't quite as good

01:41as the IT in the office and you know it's certainly really about sort of creating better benefits in

01:50terms of facilities such as sort of you know showers and gyms and really looking at the wellness

01:56so has COVID forcing people to work from home what have businesses actually learned that they're

02:03trying to bring into their models now now it's creating you know loads of different one-man two-man

02:08three-man pods different areas in which people can go and sit you know if you're having an informal

02:14meeting you'll go and sit in an area with sofas you've also got meeting rooms you've also got the

02:19pods you've also got sort of library spaces quiet spaces making sure that people can't interfere you

02:26you know disturb you when you're in a quiet space

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