Nicki Bartels, office manager, ESD, shares how she approached developing guidelines while preparing offices to welcome people back in New York, Chicago and San Francisco.
 

The past few months have shined a spotlight on the pains of uniting a remote workforce in terms of communication, collaboration and effectiveness.
 

This spring, schools were forced to adjust to the pandemic.
 

Long-held assumptions about the best ways to set up corporate office space have been upended amid the coronavirus pandemic.
 

Though high-tech financial firms have traditionally focused on highly redundant and resilient infrastructure to overcome disruptions to their trading floors, global pandemics and stay-at-home governance have not traditionally been on the list of business-continuity considerations.
 

We have been living through unprecedented times, and we know you have a lot of questions concerning your return to the workplace.
 

Technology has gone from a nice-to-have tool to one that is essential for business continuity during the pandemic.
 

A major healthcare system in the Chicago area recently adopted a Unified Communication and Collaboration (UCC) platform as its standard and was starting to deploy the solution and train its first users.
 

Unified communication is a familiar term commonly used to describe a variety of software and hardware systems that bridged disparate telecommunications systems in the workforce and emerged in the early stages of traditional AV and IT infrastructure and application convergence.
 

The state of office design has seen a big impact, given the new need for social distancing.