From spending hundreds, thousands, or let’s say millions of dollars getting an office location, to furnishing and getting office supplies, to maintenance and repair, a lot of companies have spent too much that they never thought of a day when their offices will be vacant and they won’t be having troupes of people coming into their office location but the pandemic changed a lot of things.
A lot of people have been lay offed, a few others are now asked to work from home, it is no doubt that the future of office space is shaky, but would it be the end for it. In the past, large corporations are identified by tall buildings and large areas of land since employee sizes demands that the company expands its offices and make it accommodative for its employees but recently, a lot of companies have asked their employees to work remotely and so many employees have testified to the fact that working remotely made it easy to work and achieve more than they usually do in office spaces.
Before the beginning of the pandemic, employment had to include how to relate with other members of staffs and a lot of companies even used Myers-Briggs type indicator to check if the employee will be compatible and their personality would be something detrimental or beneficial to the company but recently, companies now care about results from employees since they work remotely.
So many people still say that the workspace cannot be completely ruled out, well I will agree to this as there are a lot of industry that requires people coming together physically to achieve a purpose. Also, it is no doubt that a lot of people rely on physical relationship to do business. I have a friend who will only do business with a person after studying and reading the persons body language when they go for breakfast or lunch, for this type of people, they still prefer the physical office method to completely remote method
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Could we say that having office was something that came with the industrial revolution and since every revolution or crisis comes with changes, the pandemic could be the end of office working? Or do we say that since no company has sold off its office space and waiting for Covid-19 to go away, offices are likely going to come back?
You can share your thoughts on offices and the future of the office world in the comment. Thanks a lot for reading, till next time.
I was discussing this with a friend, with workers working from home it might even be more easy for companies to cut off expenses of working from home.
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Very convenient thank you for reading.
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In my opinion, most countries will prefer their workers working from home and if that happens it might affect real estate sector.
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That's true because there will be lots of buildings to be sold at cheap rates, thanks for reading.
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Would say it all depends. There are lots of factors that could cause the doom of offices. However, if companies are well prepared and when all the factors necessary to scale through these problems are present, then they would stand strong.
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The truth is that I think the covid will never go away, today as you say many offices have closed or are still waiting for everything to happen, I think they will continue to operate but in smaller proportion, while they have to sustain and maintain their employees I think they will continue. Everything will depend on the situation in my opinion.
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That is true, not all companies can work from home, thanks for reading.
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Hi @busted1
To a large extent this varies in relation to the type of work.
Offices that are responsible for keeping records, papers, etc., should certainly follow.
As far as the sales sector is concerned, I must say that it can work largely in that way, from home, at least for the distributors, the reality is that there are those who prefer personal attention, and do not adapt to calls or mail.
Everything is relative, but in general, I do believe that the use of offices is going to decrease.
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Right there are still people who prefer personal experiences, thanks for reading.
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