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Awl - Workplace Re-Imagined
Awl - Workplace Re-Imagined
WORKPLACE
RE-IMAGINED
Reinventing & adapting to
the new workplace trends
NEW
OLD
For a healthy growing nation
The emergence of the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 heralds the need for
such a change.
Admin Services
Queuing Up
Stand on the Markings,
maintaining a distance of 2M
Arriving at
work
Entering the
1.
building
Colleague
Experience
6. 2.
Food Workspace
Leaving Services Design Being in the
work building
5. 3.
transpor- Cleaning &
tation Hygiene
Well-being Working in
4. the building
Technical
Maintenance
Receiving &
sending mail Having meetings,
& packages conferences,
events
Going for
lunch
For a healthy growing nation
Colleague
Experiences
As employers and employees prepare to return to
their workplaces, one thing is certain that there is a
need to embrace new behaviors and ways of
working in our office spaces.
Colleague Experiences
Recommended Approach
Arriving at work
• Employees to sanitize their hands after getting in & out of the mode
of transport.
• Make use of Personal Protective Equipment (masks, gloves) as
mandated.
Entering the building
• Conduct temperature checks while entering the workplace.
• Place accessible hand sanitizer at all touchpoints and other
relevant places.
• Removal of reading material in the reception area.
• Max. 2 persons in elevators at a time to avoid close contact.
• Encourage use stairs wherever possible and use hand
sanitizers after holding hand rails.
Colleague Experiences
Recommended Approach
Colleague Experiences
Recommended Approach
Well-being
• Promote exercises that can be done at home & desks.
• Health checks from visiting doctor on weekly basis.
Leaving work
• Wash hands with soap & water or sanitize before leaving work.
• Provide “Survival kits” on request for commuting of end-users
(masks, gloves, etc.)
Colleague Experiences
Safe Queuing
• Use floor stickers to mark 2m safe distance at queuing locations
(canteen, coffee points etc.)
2m 2m
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Safe Circulation
• Control people flow in a single • Use 2m interval markings on the
direction, where possible to avoid floor or walls along corridors to
crossing in corridors or openspace. guide people movement & timing.
2m
2m
Colleague Experiences
Safe Hands
• Hand Washing with Soap and Water • Hand Rub with 60% Alcohol-bases
• Wet hands and apply soap to cover hands. Sanitizer
• Scrub all surfaces of the hands, in between • If soap and water are not readily available,
your fingers, thumb, palms, wrist and the use a sanitizer.
top of your hand and under your nails. • Apply a squirt of sanitizer in the palm of your hand.
• Scrub your hands with soap for at least • Rub over both hands (palm to palm, back of each
20 seconds. hand, finger interlocks, back of the fingers, thumbs)
• Rinse thoroughly with running water. for at least 20 seconds to ensure full coverage.
• Dry hands with a clean cloth or • Once dry, your hands are safe.
single-use towel. • Dry hands with a clean cloth or single-use towel.
Floor 2m 2m 2m
Marking
For a healthy growing nation
Workplace
Design
Workplace design will play a crucial role as the
future workspace will be immersive and will put
employee well being and engagement in the
forefront, Physical spaces will transform as
workplaces endeavour to seek an equilibrium
between social distancing and the right
amount of collaboration to build an effective,
yet safe working environment.
For a healthy growing nation
Workplace Design
Recommended Approach
Arriving at work
Short / Mid term Approach Long term Approach
• Alternate seating to be ensured • Redesign to increase to space
to keep distance of 2 meter. between workstations.
• Partitions dividers between the • Reduce/eliminate hot desks
workstations to be installed. and reuse space effectively.
• In case of workstations having • Moves to be done only after
common partition in the entre, working hours or during the
the height of partitions to be weekend.
increased. • Decontamination of moved
• Home office kit for end users, furniture to make sure that it
i.e. set up the work place at is not infected.
home and make sure it is
compliant to work regulations.
Workplace Design
Recommended Approach
Workplace Design
Recommended Approach
Having meetings,
conferences, events
Short / Mid term Approach Long term Approach
• Increase VC facility in meeting • Create more VC rooms.
rooms. • Big meeting rooms /
• Meeting room doors to be conference rooms to be
made touch free. converted into smaller
• Meeting rooms capacity to be meeting rooms.
used only 50% to keep social
distancing.
• Signages on conference room
door indicating max. capacity.
Workplace Design
Safe Meetings
• Reduce meeting room capacity to 50%.
• Remove/ arrange seats to avoid face to face proximity.
• Maintain 2m safety distance between meeting participants.
2m
2m
2m
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Safe Workstations
Option 1 Option 2
• Alternate desks are left • Optimise desk positions to 2m
unoccupied by removing every safety distance.
other seat. • Avoid face to face seating,
• Avoid face to face seating, unless at 2m distance.
unless at 2m distance.
2m
2m
2m
2m
2m
2m
2m
Workplace Design
Safe Breaks
• Reduce/ remove furniture from breakout areas and reposition to
follow 2m distances at social settings.
2m
2m
2m
2m
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Café layout
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For a healthy growing nation
Cleaning &
Disinfection
Hygiene and sanitisation of the workplace
will be of prime importance as employees
return to work General cleaning practiced
will need to be enhanced to incorporate
enhanced sanitization and disinfection
procedures to adapt to the enhanced
hygiene standards of the workplace.
For a healthy growing nation
Leaving work
• Vehicle to be ready with fogging before boarding.
• Parking area and drop off areas to be deep cleaned at night.
For a healthy growing nation
Technical
Maintenance
For a healthy growing nation
Technical Maintenance
Recommended Approach
Arriving at work
• Increase outdoor air ventilation.
Transportation
For a healthy growing nation
Transportation
Recommended Approach
Arriving at work
• Installation of the AarogyaSetu app to receive regular alerts
on containment areas.
Leaving work
• Appropriate PPE to be worn by relevant employees at all times.
• Windows to be kept open during travel.
SAFE TRANSPORT
Personal Transport Employee Transport /
Public Bus
X
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Food
Services
For a healthy growing nation
Food Services
Recommended Approach
Arriving at work
• Carry your own bottles of water to work.
• Disposable water bottles to be kept at the reception for guests.
After
Avoid cash
Office transactions &
encourage
e-payments
HELPLINE NUMBERS
Emergency
in case of an emergency NSCR: 079 26455100 / 7575889100
Doctor advisory
on Call Dr. Ankur Dave: 079-27664747
WE ARE
FUTURE READY
We are flexible to align our recommendations
around your workplace strategy to curate a
bespoke model which provides a safe and
secure workplace for you