BUILDING WORKPLACE FUTURES with WEETU

BUILDING WORKPLACE FUTURES with A short guide to a broad future to put people first as we work together.

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THE RESTART BUTTON HAS BEEN HIT With buildings empty and millions of companies making plans to bring people back to work, one thing is certain - there is no precedent for this.

Let us imagine a different future for work.

People say “this is the new normal”, but that sounds like a leftover, like we’re stuck with it!

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Together, we can do better.

Many may still be working from home, but the office is not going to disappear.

It’s role will evolve into something more.

As humans, we still crave connection, relationships and community.

How we envision the future office: As the cultural hub for business, employees have freedom to choose when and from where they work to feel safe and productive with the office serving as the gravitational force bringing people together.

YOUR UNIQUE STRATEGY OF BUILDING WORKPLACE FUTURES

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There are many workplace futures, weetu will work with you to envision and create yours.

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use our branding expertise to

COMMUNICATE CARE

use our design knowledge to

CREATE COMMUNITY & BELONGING

use our professional and technical know how to

FACILITATE COMFORT & SAFETY

COMMUNICATE CARE USING VISUAL DEVICES TO COMMUNICATE HEALTH AND SAFETY PROCEDURES, SO THAT ALL EMPLOYEES FEEL SAFE, CONSIDERED, AND CARED FOR.

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ADDITIONAL RESOURCES:

Our firm’s approach has always been rooted in an empathetic process. Now, more than ever, our ability to solicit and evaluate complex client needs is integral to office design.

Leveraging our firm’s experience with branding and interior design, we will work with you to both verbally and visually communicate to your employees throughout the process.

This may include preliminary assessment of employees attitudes around working from home and returning to the workplace now, or in the near future. This may also include creating unique signage and way-finding systems that communicate and ensure proper safety protocols and methods are understood.

As we consider, together, the spatial implications for a workplace between the office and the home, we’ll ensure that all employees feel listened to, knowledgeable and prepared, whether they return to the workplace, continue to work from home, or embrace a hybrid of both.

RESOURCES FOR YOU The Complete Remote Work Playbook by LifeLabs Learnings

HERE ARE SOME HELPFUL LINKS FROM OUR RESEARCH THAT WE FOUND INTERESTING OR USEFUL THAT WE’D LIKE TO SHARE:

A Guide to Managing Your (Newly) Remote Workers via Harvard Business Review Sample Telecommuting Agreements by Global Workplace Analytics Reboot: Returning to the workplace, What do I need to be ready to bring people back to the workplace by PWC The AIA’s (American Institute of Architects’) Public Health Briefing Summary The AIA’s Re Occupancy Assessment Tool RESOURCES FOR YOU TO SHARE WITH YOUR EMPLOYEES LinkedIn Learning’s - Building Boundaries with Loved Ones While Working from Home IDEO’s 4 Ways to Work Together When We Can’t Be Together Modern Health’s Resources weeks prior to their return to the office.

COMMUNICATE CARE SOME WAYS CAN ENHANCE THIS PROCESS:

WEE WILL • help gauge current employee attitudes around working from home and returning to the workplace through easily accessible surveys, interviews and conversations.

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• help assess ergonomic, technology and other needs to better streamline working between home and office.

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• help you evaluate your communication of work-from-home protocols.

• work with building management to consider when and how frequently each space should be cleaned and how this cleaning is made visible so that each employee feels safe.

• work with you to help determine the cultural future of your company in a post-COVID world.

• consider employee attitudes around monitoring systems.

• help you design communication documents that exist in the office and beyond in order to reduce the spread of pathogens from the home to the office.

• design wayfinding devices that ensure all employees are aware of the new ways of occupying the office.

• define the overall design of your new office beyond traditional office space.

CREATE COMMUNITY & BELONGING WORKING TO EVOLVE WORKSPACE CULTURE IN A POST COVID-19 WORLD

Our approach to interior design has always been custom-tailored to our individual client’s needs and spirit. Wee-listen! That will be refreshing.

In addition to reorganizing your office layout, so that proper distances can be maintained and circulation pathways are clear, we’ll also develop time and space-based strategies that support collaboration within a de-densified office that work in tandem to create community.

What’s also critical to address is your company culture moving forward. This pandemic has not only made a significant physical impact, but also a psychological and emotional one.

The role of the office will play an even more important role to not only support function and productivity while providing a safe environment, but also the home base for all employees to participate and connect.

ADDITIONAL RESOURCES:

RESOURCES FOR YOU

WE DON’T PRETEND TO KNOW IT ALL! LUCKILY A LOT OF PEOPLE ARE WORKING HARD OUT THERE:

Why Remote Work is So Hard- and How it Can Be Fixed, Cal Newport

The Maintaining Continuity with a Remote Workforce, Evelyn Lee

CDC- Interim Guidance for Businesses and Employers Responding to Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19), May 2020

OSHA- Guidance on Preparing Workplaces for COVID-19 RESOURCES FOR YOU TO SHARE WITH YOUR EMPLOYEES Airtable- part spreadsheet, part data-base, a new way to get teams organized Clockwise Time Management System, allowing you to block schedule work so that hours in office can be effectively coordinated

CREATE COMMUNITY & BELONGING SOME WAYS CAN ENHANCE THIS PROCESS:

WEE WILL • guide you in assessing how your company’s total schedule (between home and office) informs the de-densification of your office space.

• evaluate your entry, occupation, and exit sequences, beginning with work-from-home locations, to ensure effective practices and movement pathways are established, and that appropriate distancing is maintained.

• select resilient, and safe finishes and furnishings, so that repeated office cleaning is made more manageable and sustainable.

• be your ongoing partner to visualize and adapt to an unknown future.

• consider which spaces are most integral to the function of the new office, whether it be an increased number of conference rooms or hot desks, a re-design or repurposing of kitchen space, or additional spaces for reflection and calm.

• design custom partitions and openings that support the spatial replanning of your office, so that 6’ distancing is not the only safe guide to keeping workers safe.

• get to know your company to better understand how the design will fit within and support your office’s culture and tendencies.

FACILITATING COMFORT & ENSURING SAFETY HEALTHY SPACE + REDUCED STRESS ENVIRONMENTS

weetu gets down to brass tacks.

Whether it be working with mechanical, engineering and plumbing, electrical and lighting systems, new equipment or furniture that helps to reduce the spread of pathogens, our technical know-how will help your firm to ensure that all of the most basic needs are met, while also creating an elevated atmosphere and reduced-stress environment for your team.

This may include adapting an existing environment, or helping you find a new space that will better suit your future goals. As expert collaborators, we’re always enthusiastic to work with outside vendors and resources as a team reaching towards the same end goal.

ADDITIONAL RESOURCES: SERIOUSLY GOOD INFO FOR ANYBODY WORKING WITH SPACE:

RESOURCES FOR YOU AIA- Reopening America: Strategies for Safer Offices

ASHRAE- ASHRAE Offers COVID-19 Reopening Guidelines How will public bathrooms change post COVID-19? ArchPaper NAFA- COVID-19 and Air Filtration FAQs

FACILITATING COMFORT & ENSURING SAFETY SOME WAYS CAN ENHANCE THIS PROCESS:

BUILDING WORKPLACE FUTURES WANT TO KNOW MORE?

WEE WILL • implement touchless systems where possible.

• examine and optimize current airflow within the workplace.

• consider areas where packages and new items arrive and determine the extent to which air cleansing devices might be necessary.

• evaluate the ways that common plumbing fixtures spread the virus, and consider newly developed replacement fixtures.

• examine areas with specialty equipment, which often includes materials like stainless steel that allow pathogens to thrive longer and suggest replacement materials.

• define systems to create reduced stress environments that address short and long term anxieties and overall health benefits.

GET IN CONTACT WITH US DON’T BE SHY!

weetu is a multi-disciplinary design studio that specializes in commercial interior environments, aligning our clients business and cultural strategies.

Contact us for a free consultation and see how we can help envision your future workplace!

SO MANY CONTACTS... (p) 877-469-3388 (e) info@goweetu.com (w) www.goweetu.com @weetu CONTACT OUR FOUNDER DIRECTLY Carly Cannell carly@goweetu.com

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