"WFH" is more than just shorthand you use to let your boss know you won't be in the office today. In 2020, as a global pandemic tore holes in thin societal fabrics and people's personal and professional lives, it has become a way of life for many office workers who are able to earn their paychecks from the comfort of their own homes.
That has caused office users — and their landlords — to start to rethink their space.
How much will they need in the future, as workers have grown accustomed to their home offices or setting up laptops on their kitchen tables? How will it be configured? Will the decades-long trend of shrinking office footprints slowly begin to bend back the other way in favor of socially distanced space? Will any major local office users ditch their digs entirely in favor of remote working?
For Kofi Bonner, the new CEO of Dan Gilbert's Bedrock LLC real estate company that owns and manages more than 6 million square feet of office space, primarily in downtown Detroit, the answer to addressing the office conundrum is somewhere in the middle.
"We think we have a really good understanding of what workers will need to come back to their office space. ... There's no question that the majority of people are getting to understand that, at some point, they'll be spending some portion of their work space from home, even post-pandemic, after the World Health Organization on that thankful day declares that the pandemic is done.
"But we've learned a lot in this process, and one of the things we've learned is that folks actually can work from home and can work from home fairly efficiently and effectively. But we've also learned that working from home exclusively may not actually be in the best interest of the workers and ultimately, the businesses. So we're all thinking about the right balance. And there's some really interesting and intriguing thinking around how to create that right balance."
The Link LonkDecember 13, 2020 at 12:10PM
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Kofi Bonner: What will office work look like post-pandemic? - Crain's Detroit Business
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