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The enforced working from home experiment has
been going on now for over two months, and so far,
it seems that in the same way that certain types of
people thrive in a busy open plan workplace while
others wilt, the mental eff ects of working from
home vary wildly.
According to a survey by The Healthy Work Company to
coincide with Mental Health Awareness Week, while almost
one in four people (24 per cent) have experienced an
improvement in their mental health, 41 per cent feel ‘about
the same’ as usual and one in three (32 per cent) report a
decline in their mental wellbeing.
With lockdown being tentatively relaxed and many FMs
preparing buildings for at least a partial return of sta , levels
of stress amongst employees are expected to rise. In fact,
new research suggests that nearly half are concerned about
bringing COVID-19 back into their home from work. This is why,
in this issue of FMJ we’ve assembled the views of a variety of
experts to o er some guidance on reintroducing people to the
workplace.
The article on page 36 outlines the processes that FMs need
to follow to ready a building for reoccupation, including the
adjustments required in the design and layout of the workplace,
determining the ways in which work spaces will be assigned
and the importance of communicating clearly to people what to
expect when they return to work.
Employers’ legal obligation to assure workers the risk of
returning to work is reduced as much as possible are further
explored in our health and safety focus on page 40. And finally,
because the level of cleanliness of a workplace has never been
more vital a cleaning feature looks at the e icacy of regular
deep cleans, the importance of overhauling cleaning regimes
and the most e ective ways of ensuring communal areas are
kept infection free.
As always, we’d welcome your feedback about any aspect of
the magazine, together with your insight into what’s happening
in the FM sector.
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