Concurrents – Environmental Psychology: Be Prepared!
With vaccine distribution underway throughout much of the world, we’ll begin to establish a new at-work-onsite “usual” in the months ahead. It seems likely that the new usual will be fundamentally like the old usual in most significant ways – although we never saw hand cleaning stations and decontamination entry zones in most pre-pandemic workplaces. We’ve learned during the pandemic that people need to be co-located to perform effectively as creative teams, so corporate offices will become even more specialized locations for strategic/creative thinking as we move forward, even as telework will likely become ever more prevalent. But corporate offices were being fine-tuned as places for creative/strategic/innovative thinking long before any of us had really considered the possibility of a microbe that’d keep us at home for a year. In future workplaces it is important that, in the words of the Boy Scouts, we’ll “Be Prepared” for “unusual” disease-related work …
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