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How the working world is changing due to Corona

The effects of the corona crisis on our economic life are undoubtedly diverse. Above all, however, the impending paradigm shift in the use of offices and workplaces is indisputable. As the saying goes, after the crisis is before the crisis, and with the gradual reintroduction of preventive measures and the renewed tightening of restrictions, the economic aftershocks will only slowly become apparent. Numerous countries and trading partners will have to live with massive restrictions and partially closed borders for months to come.
The impact on the global economy and global value chains will keep us busy for many more months. This also requires more flexibility in office use in order to be able to react quickly to an economically unstable and difficult-to-plan environment. Positive experiences with home offices will partly lead to changed usage behavior. For example, office space will increasingly be used as a platform for comprehensive information exchange, socializing, and access to technologies, showrooms, and archive space.
However, not all companies have had positive experiences with the home office concept. Many businesses are recording a massive drop in productivity. After all, not all circumstances in different households are suitable for concentrated work, not to mention technological limitations and psychological stress. Therefore, there will rather be a more flexible use of well-equipped office workstations, which will be in balance with the temporary home office. This is the only way to satisfy the changing needs in the most diverse work situations. This results not only in new demands on room concepts, but above all on scalability, lease terms, fail-safe services, and critical infrastructure in times of crisis. Open-plan offices must be adapted to new safety standards, team separation offices ensure fail-safe office operations and the interruption of infection chains, and new hygiene standards and rules of conduct require the adaptation of processes and procedures.
Serviced office users already benefited from these services at the beginning of the corona crisis. For example, they were able to move their employees to the home office with almost no lead time. Mail services, telephone exchange, facility services, and inspection tours were seamlessly continued in a fail-safe manner by the location operators. Tenants with fully flexible contracts were even able to temporarily switch their offices to virtual office concepts, thereby drastically reducing their costs. For example, YOUR OFFICE is the only provider to offer rental agreements that can be canceled daily, completely without notice periods. In short: modern office concepts such as serviced & flex offices or co-working will gain further importance in the coming months and years and offer many companies the urgently needed flexibility.

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