What Your Post-Lockdown Office Will Look Like
If Britain's draft reopening plans are anything to go by, white-collar workplaces will be safer, cleaner and more frustrating environments.
London under lockdown.
Photographer: NurPhoto/NurPhotoWhether working from home has been a productivity and wellness-enhancing revelation or a burden to be shouldered with stoic resolve depends on your job, your home setup and your personality. It may even depend on the day. But just as air travel changed beyond recognition after 9/11, traditional offices appear set to become safer, cleaner and less pleasing environments too.
U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson is preparing to unveil detailed guidance on Sunday for bringing Britain out of lockdown. Each employment sector will have to adapt in different ways but leaked drafts of his plans suggest that those of us who work in conventional offices will find they look and feel very different in the coronavirus era.