We surveyed different industry leaders about how they planned on reopening their workplaces, their top priorities in the process, and what they anticipated moving forward. Here are the results.
Last month, we surveyed different industry leaders about how they planned on reopening their workplaces, their top priorities in the process, and what they anticipated moving forward.
We wanted to share our findings from the survey, and provide more insight into what’s next for the future of workplaces.
Overall, from our respondents we see these key trends:
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Our respondent pool was diverse—and ranged from all different industries, company sizes and back-to-work strategies. The majority of respondents—at 22.9 percent—were in the telecommunications, technology, internet, and electronics industry—with the nonprofit and education industries rounding out the top three at 11.4 percent each.
The results also represented a range of company sizes—with the majority of respondents representing companies from 100-500 employees (40 percent.) The breakdown of respondent company size is as follows; 500-2500 employee-sized companies were represented by 31.4 percent of respondents, over 2500 employee-sized companies were represented by 14.3 percent of respondents and less than 100 employee-sized companies were also represented by 14.3 percent of respondents.
When asked if respondents’ companies were “back to work”—we received the following results, with most indicating that they were partially back to work already.
Of the respondents who indicated that they haven’t returned to work, most—at 31.6 percent —were not planning on returning to work until 2021 at the earliest.
When asked what was most important priorities-wise in the back-to-work process, 80 percent of respondents cited safety and health of employees as their top concern.
Regardless of when reopening occurs—it’s clear that workplace capacity will be vastly different from where it stood pre-pandemic. Over half of respondents indicated that their offices would not be operating at full capacity, with 40 percent indicating that capacity would be below 50 percent.
The divide between allowing employees to work from home indefinitely was almost evenly split—with 37.1 percent indicating that they would not, and 40 percent indicating that they would. Many others emphasized that the decision wasn’t set in stone yet, and would be revisited in the coming months.
Contrary to many public articles and reports, 97.1 percent of respondents were not looking to move offices.
For respondents—ensuring a safety of employees was a mix of social distancing, lower occupancy, tracking tools, and COVID-19 tests, with some indicating that they have not yet figured out a solution.
Ultimately the one thing we do know is that safety is the key component in every reopening process and plan. Ensuring that the workplace remains safe requires extensive planning, monitoring, and employee input.
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