I wonder how the concept of the open office floor plan is compatible with social distancing once employees return to the office?

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It’s interesting. The Deloitte offices in the APAC region haven’t embraced the open office format the same way the US/European member firms have.

I wonder if we will go back to a more restrictive office format. I think we should. No one likes open offices.

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Management likes open offices, because they can pack employees in like sardines and slash their real estate footprint significantly.

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It’s not. Watch the cubicle (r)evolution begin.

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Not to mention getting on an elevator...

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I think/hope most places will continue to allow employees to WFH if possible to reduce the volume of people in the office. Before we locked down completely, some departments in our office were doing rotation, half in office half WFH each day.

I had my own office and then transferred to open office. Curious what others experience is—I found a total lack of etiquette, people having standing impromptu meetings and loud personal conversations next to my space. How do you address that? Not currently relevant but just asking.

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I’m just teasing. I’m well aware of ICAO’s role. But it’s role expands and contracts with demand for aviation

Use every other desk?

We need something usable in the next 60 days. No one is gut renovating offices to install cubicles in 60 days.

Honest question- I’ve always been a traveling consultant and only go into the office for paperwork/admin related needs. What are some of the reasons people HAVE to be in the office? Is it client mandated or just preference?

National bought monitors for everyone who requested one. CDW shipped them to our homes. We can also expense up to $50 in accessories to setup our work from home setup.

The biggest frustration for some groups was that Treasury and the States have been all over the place so we still have a lot of work to do.

Clients are understandable that deliverables are delayed since the staff/seniors take long and also while we’re advising them on CARES ACT at the same time so tons of work to do.

I’ve been wondering a lot about this. The advertising agency holding companies invested heavily in open office environments in recent years. Where I work, we’re only a few feet apart, and we face another employee on the other side of our “desks.” How many employees will be willing to return to these environments?

In our offices we “hotel” so I could be at 5 different desks during the week. Sharing desktops and tech. The exposure is frightening, but the save real estate dollars. It is the mist inefficient office design. I wear my AirPods w/o connecting to my phone, so I can block out the noise coming from the break room and foosball table.

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