Recent times have forced a disruption in age-old mindsets and norms for many corporations. Majority of businesses had to deploy new platforms, which saw their employees work remotely and collaborate amidst accelerated digital transformation and new technologies. Needless to say, COVID-19 has and continues to change the way the world works and birth a new reality we must adjust to.
Today, as we witness the progressive, large-scale return to the workspace and welcome hybrid forms of working, the design community is once again focused on adjusting the way employees interact with their office space on top of health, wellbeing and adaptability concerns.
And the quickly emerging practice for Singapore corporate interior design firms to incorporate the present and the future? Resiliency, or otherwise known as the ‘pandemic-resilient workplace’.
A keyword that met its peak spotlight during the pandemic, resilience is the capability to recover its form from or adapt quickly to any less-than-ideal obstacle or change.
Just as its name suggests, resilient spaces are agile, diverse and fluid spaces that adapt flexibly to meet future pandemic responses and ever-changing needs, such as possible work-from-home mandates, de-densification of the office, team splitting, and more. Such adaptability ensures immediate design needs and active changes are quick and easy, and supports the capacity to accommodate substantial change over the lifetime of a building well across any internal or external factor.
