Ivy Liu
by Tony Case
Outdoor workspaces have long been standard at creative and tech firms, from Microsoft’s tricked-out treehouses to Shutterstock’s birds-eye perch atop the Empire State Building. In the thick of the pandemic, fears about working in close quarters had plenty of companies emphasizing their fresh-air digs.
With the pandemic ebbing and the return to the office now underway, companies continue to promote the great outdoors if a glam, WiFi-enabled one as a must-have feature of the post-COVID workplace, one that’s got employees’ feelings around safety, comfort and creative inspiration top of mind.
At its massive new mixed-use development on Manhattan’s westside, the global real estate giant Related Companies has teamed with the coworking firm Industrious on a project called Yard Work at Hudson Yards, a 7-acre outdoor meeting and workspace providing custom accommodations for up to 28 people. Features include swing set-s
Ivy Liu
by Tony Case
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Despite the global vaccine rollout, cities like New York and London returning to a semblance of normalcy, and the European Union’s announced reopening of borders to outsiders, the media and advertising business remains in a state of flux over the return to the office, with strategies still a decidedly mixed bag.
Questions that remain involve everything from mask etiquette to vaccination requirements to what policies around the long-term return to the workplace look like.
Heavy workloads are a major variable for mental health, The Drum’s mental health survey found
A mental health survey of marketers and agency workers conducted by The Drum has found that a majority of staff say their mental health has got worse during the pandemic, and that demanding workloads are a major factor in their mental wellbeing. Most alarming of all, almost half say their employers offer no mental health support.
It’s clear that, with client demands unlikely to decrease as the UK and US economies look forward to recovery, industry leaders need to do – and communicate – more to offset the impact on staff mental health.
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Ivy Liu
by Tony Case
A year after the pandemic hit and remote working became the norm, employers like Twitter and J.P. Morgan are beginning to lay out plans for the return to a more predictable work arrangement. But what about those companies that are still trying to sort out which configuration will work best for them and the timing around that?
The New York-based flexible workplace provider Industrious on Monday will release a report called “The 30% Rule: Planning Your Team’s Return to the Office” that aims to guide employers and the real estate industry as companies plot returning toward some sense of normalcy.