What Can the Workplace Learn from Lockdown?
National design firm Hames Sharley surveyed all staff across its six studios to investigate the impact of working from home and the lessons that could be translated back into the workplace. Against the current background of outbreaks, snap lockdowns, constant travel uncertainty, and a slowly developing vaccine program, Australians are trying to return to a version of normal. ‘Normal’ and a ‘new normal’ are debatable tags; a quest for certainty and personal control might be the crux of their real ambition intrinsically linked to mental wellbeing. There has been a huge development in the collective corporate understanding of health and wellbeing. Exercise used to be entirely separate to work, whilst mindfulness was unheard of. The breadth of offer and sheer scale of corporate end of trips and in-house gyms has become a key tenant building selection criteria, with the Fitbit-wearing boards of some ASX:100 anchor tenants recently selecting ‘CBD edge’ …
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