Market Report: Planning The Return To The Office

As the Government sets out its plan to ease the lockdown and gradually allow people back to work and back onto public transport, businesses are advised to consider all the Physical & Policy, Psychological, and Technical “Return to Work/ the Office” options and have the capability to move from one scenario to another as the situation changes.

In light of this, we surveyed 100 business continuity, risk and resilience professionals to find out how prepared they are to allow the safe re-opening of their of offices.

To download a copy of the survey results, please click here.

Some of the questions we asked were:

• When you reopen your office to the majority of your employees, how easy will it be to adapt your office environment to ensure there is a 2m physical distance between your employees?
• Do you have a written procedure in place that employees and Managers should follow if they start to feel unwell?
• Do you intend on having your office environment professionally deep- cleaned before you re-open it to the majority of your employees?
• Do you have a policy in place for your employees that need to visit other premises whether they be yours, clients or business partners?
• Do you have a support process in place to help manage anxiety levels within employees who are returning to the office?
• Do you intend on providing a one-to-one “return to the office/return to work” programme for all employees?
• To overcome some employees fears over using public transport how likely are you to offer staggered shift patterns?
• Do you expect your permanent staffing levels to increase, reduce, or stay the same?
• If you are expecting your staffing levels to reduce, by what % do you expect them to reduce by?
• What % of meetings that used to be face to face do you anticipate now being done remotely?

Some of the survey results were as expected, but some were not.  To see how you are doing compared to our survey respondents, and to help with your return to work planning, download our report now.

To learn how the FortressAS Home solution can help you improve the well-being of your home-workers, reduce your office costs, and improve your operational resilience, download our brochure here. To find out more about the FortressAS Home Solution visit https://fortressas.com/fortressas-home-service/.