215 — Workplace design in the Covid era

Earlier in the year, a report by academics at Cardiff and Southampton Universities found that a majority of people would like to continue working from home in some capacity, even after social distancing is no longer a requirement. But what would a permanent shift to distributed work look like? And what would it mean for organisational performance?

This week on the Good Practice Podcast, Ross D and Owen are joined by Dr Kerstin Sailer, Reader in Social and Spatial Networks at University College London, to discuss:

• the relationship between workplace design and communication
• the implications of a more permanent move away from the physical office
• considerations when adapting existing spaces to allow for social distancing

Show notes

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The report referenced above can be found at: https://wiserd.ac.uk/publications/homeworking-uk-and-during-2020-lockdown

To learn more about Kerstin's work, head to: https://brainybirdz.net/

The Nature article Owen referenced can be found at: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-02558-0

Kerstin is currently reading The Lonely Century by Noreena Hertz.

For an overview of the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine's research into dogs' ability to detect Covid-19, head to: https://www.lshtm.ac.uk/research/centres-projects-groups/using-dogs-to-detect-covid-19

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• Ross Dickie @RossDickieEW
• Owen Ferguson @owenferguson
• Kerstin Sailer @kerstinsailer