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Ideas for how to progressively adapt existing work spaces to meet the new health and safety requirements for a post-COVID workplace — across the time horizons of now, near and far.

Pre-COVID Social Spaces & Lounge Spaces

Many of today’s office lounge spaces don’t provide enough boundary and separation between people. Here are ideas for how to retrofit existing spaces now to address immediate workplace social distancing needs as well as reconfigure them in the near term.

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Pre-COVID Social Space

Many of today’s lounge spaces don’t provide enough boundary and separation between people. Here are ideas for how to retrofit existing spaces now to address immediate needs as well as reconfigure them in the near term.

Retrofit

Density:

  • Break multi-seat lounge furniture into individual seats by introducing table elements to reduce density

Geometry:

  • Arrange seating to eliminate face-to-face orientation

Division:

  • Add 71” & 47” high Steelcase Flex screens to increase shielding
  • Add storage to create boundary and store PPE, cleaning supplies and sanitizer

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Reconfigure

Density:

  • Break a single setting into multiple smaller settings with increased separation and reduced density

Geometry:

  • Arrange seating to eliminate face-to-face orientation

Division:

  • Add individual Lagunitas lounge seats with personal screens
  • Move storage to create separation between lounge settings

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Reconfigure

Density:

  • Break a single setting into multiple smaller settings with increased separation and reduced density

Geometry:

  • Arrange seating to eliminate face-to-face orientation

Division:

  • Add individual Lagunitas lounge seats with personal screens
  • Move storage to create separation between lounge settings

Download 3D Models

Thought Starters

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Navigating What’s Next

To learn more about design considerations when planning for the now, near and far time horizons, read the Navigating What’s Next: The Post-COVID Workplace guide.

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