JAN JAAP BOOGAARD
Head of EMEA Workplace Advisory
Workplace Advisory
Globally, the COVID-19 crisis has dramatically impacted the way we work, and at Colliers International, we believe this shift will affect not only how we work in the short-term but will have far-reaching effects on work and the workplace.
As Colliers EMEA Workplace Advisory we look forward to sharing our experiences, methodologies, tools and research related to the post-COVID-19 workplace with you. We collect experiences from all over the world and are here to help organisations with a safe return back to the office, and discover and develop the post-COVID-19 workplace.
live online event
reimagining the workplace| from crisis to opportunity
In early March, our global Workplace Advisory team launched the global ‘Work from Home’ experience survey, engaging over 5,000 respondents in 25 countries across 18 sectors. The survey measured the respondents’ experience of working from home plus the level of desire to work from home after COVID-19.
The session covered an overview of the results of our global work from home survey:
• Individual productivity
• Respondents future desire to work from home
• Virtual connection
• Work-Life balance
• Management style
Followed by a panel discussion with experts from Microsoft, SAP, Sireas and Standard Chartered Bank on the potential impact of COVID-19 on the future of the office:
• The future of working from home
• Reimagining and rebalancing the office
• Delivering for the post COVID-19 workplace
• The long-term impact to organisational culture
Click here for more information.
methodology
rebalance your workplace planner
We offer a step by step approach to rebalance your workplace.
It is likely that there will be a renewed focus on combining working from the office with working from home post COVID-19. This is a great opportunity to strategically rethink the way your organisation works and define what workplace suits best to this way of working. Do we need our office in the current form after COVID-19? Why do people come to the office in the future? How many sqm/sft do we need? What should it look like?
The Colliers Workplace Advisory team is here to help to discover and deliver your workplace of the future. Colliers International has developed a planning method to assess the desire to work from home post-COVID-19 and calculate the potential impacts on office requirements.
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TOOL
remote working survey
Our online Colliers ‘Remote Working’ survey determines perceptions on the future role of the office and remote working. It also focusses on the desired working from home workplace setup. It covers key topics including productivity, desire level to work from home (or remotely) after COVID-19, connection, work-life balance and management styles. It is the first step towards scenario modelling, as part of Rebalance the Workplace Planner.
With over 20,000 respondents to date, it is one of the largest surveys conducted on what has been the largest remote working experiment yet. Importantly, your organisation can be benchmarked globally, regionally or by industry sector. Additional organisation specific questions can be added to tailor the survey to suit specific organizational needs.
RESEARCH
Exploring the post-COVID-19 Workplace
Leveraging data from over 5,000 respondents
In early March, our global Workplace Advisory team launched the global ‘Work from Home’ experience survey, engaging over 5,000 respondents in 25 countries across 18 sectors. The survey measured the respondents’ experience of working from home plus the level of desire to work from home after COVID-19. The core aim of the survey was to collect data to help improve the ‘work from home experience’ and identify potential medium and long-term impacts for businesses to deliver a more dynamic workplace strategy.
We are pleased to share the findings with you which you can download below. The report covers a number of key topics including:
Results survey
- Individual productivity
- Respondents future desire to work from home
- Virtual connection
- Work-Life balance
- Management style
Potential impact of COVID-19 on the future of the office
- Working from home
- Re-imagining and rebalancing the office
Click here to download report.
tool
remote working impact calculator
To create high level understanding of the potential impact of an increase in working from home on required office space, we developed the ‘Working from Home Impact calculator’. Fill in the potential increase in working from home and find out the possible impact on your office space. The tool visualises the difference between pre-COVID-19 occupancy and post COVID-19 occupancy and calculates the potential impact on the required workstations.
METHODOLOGY
back to work navigator
Businesses and landlords needing advice on how to safely bring their staff and tenants back to the office after the COVID-19 lockdown can now receive recommendations within 48-hours from our Workplace Advisory and Project Management teams to provide, quick, detailed and innovative solutions to maximise office capacity – including cost estimates.
Colliers has established that in most corporate offices only 40 per cent of desk spaces will be usable initially when staff return to the office, because social distancing measures will be expected to continue for the next few months. This means that unless significant changes are made to layout and office design, many people will have to remain working remotely for the foreseeable future.
The Back to Work Navigator service will evaluate five areas where changes can be made to maximise office capacity and support productivity; design, navigation, behaviour, hygiene and technology. The service is available to occupiers as well as landlords needing to plan the reopening of their multi-let office blocks.
Find more details on the service here.
TOOL
Office Social Distancing Calculator
In markets where lockdowns are being eased, businesses have a duty of care for their staff and incorporating social distancing in offices is a necessary intermediate step, to help keep the curve flattened and restart society and the economy step by step. Businesses will be expected to split their staff into daily or weekly shifts to provide access to the office. Under the new norms desk sharing will be impossible: staff will be allocated one dedicated desk per day, which has to be cleaned intensively between shifts.
In order to help businesses plan for returning back to the office, data scientists from Colliers International Netherlands have created the Office Social Distancing Calculator which provides high level insights in the number of workstations that can be used when social distancing measures are in place.
TOOL
SOCIAL DISTANCING FLOOR PLANNER
Together with our partners at Fastoffice we offer the ‘Social Distancing Floor Planner’ which helps organisations with a detailed analysis of the workstations that can be used when social distancing measures are in place. The tool calculated the number of worksettings that can be used and creates heatmaps and 3D walk throughs to visualise the usable space.
More information can be found here
EVENT
WEBINAR 'REAL TIME DATA TO NAVIGATE THE POST COVID-19 WORKSPACE'
On April 23 the global Workplace Advisory team organised a webinar to discuss the preliminary findings of the global ‘Working from Home’ survey. Over 3.000 people participated in the webinar. For access to the recording and slide deck, please visit here.
TOOL
REAL TIME OCCUPANCY TRACKINg
Together with our partners at Basking Automation we leverage the existing building infrastructure (via Wi-Fi system) to help organisations understand how people interact with spaces and where they work and meet, without the need for additional hardware sensors or manual counting studies. The Solution addresses questions like:
- How many people are in the building, on floors and in areas and how does this compare to the maximum social distancing capacity on building, floor and area level?
- What are risk areas in buildings in terms of traffic?
- What teams work from the office and what teams work mainly from home?
- What teams work together in the office and where?
- How do people travel between locations?
More information can be found here: https://basking.io/how-it-works/
If you have any questions, please get in touch with the contacts below.
#ColliersEvent | Contact: events@colliers.com
DISCLAIMER
The analysis and finding reported on this microsite is based primarily on Colliers International data, which may be helpful in anticipating trends in the property sector. However, no warranty is given as to the accuracy of, and no liability for negligence is accepted in relation to, the forecasts, figures or conclusions contained in this report and they must not be relied on for investment or any other purposes. The outbreak of the Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19), declared by the World Health Organisation as a “Global Pandemic” on the 11th March 2020, has impacted market activity in many sectors, creating an unprecedented set of circumstances on which to base a judgement. This report does not constitute and must not be treated as investment or valuation advice or an offer to buy or sell property. Given the unknown future impact that COVID-19 might have on real estate market supply, demand and pricing variables, we recommend that you recognise that our research and analysis is far more prone to market uncertainty, despite our endeavours to maintain our robust and objective reporting.
