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One of COVID-19’s most signifi cant legacies will be the reimagining of
our collective experience of work – starting with the relationship between
the digital and physical workplace. Helen Strother interviewed an interior
design and a communications expert to fi nd out how the two align
24 OCTOBER 2020
The last few months have forced
organisations to become truly agile
and embrace remote working overnight.
Consequently, FMs have faced new
challenges as they grappled with the
increasingly digital requirements of
business, the implications for physical
real estate and the need for a new
seamless blend between the two.
Now that remote working looks set to
become more commonplace in the wake
of the pandemic (90 per cent of employees
would like to work at home more in the
future ), it highlights the importance of
making it seamless with the experience in
the physical o ice.
Ann Clarke, Director of Future Workplace
at workplace consultancy and interior
design business Claremont, says this
requires organisations to fully embrace
agility. “Until we went into lockdown, most
businesses were still quite static. They might
have started to move towards agility, but
they had a largely o ice based workforce
and only partly agile technologies. The
last six months have really driven home
the message that work is an activity not a