Office and Furniture Reconfiguration post COVID-19
After the Covid-19 pandemic, organisations gradually started to look at bringing staff back into offices that before Covid-19 provided a safe and suitable workspace. However, not evreyone was over-excited at the prospect of returing to the workplace. The post Covid-19 workplace inevitably presented new challenges and new requirements to ensure staff remain safe and encourage their return to work. The number of people that a workspace could realistically and safely accommodate became more of a concern whilst optimising desk and office space, maintaining social distancing and ensuring the safe flow of personnel traffic brought with it its own unique challenges.
Universal has a vast amount of experience in assisting organisations in reconfiguring their workplace, whether that means removing furniture and temporarily storing it, rearranging desks and work environments to ensure working layouts and the changing workplace are safe and sustainable and reconfiguration, resizing or repurposing furniture.
As clients started to reopen offices, they looked to reduce risk and make the workspace as safe as possible for their returning staff, some of whom were understandably nervous about restarting office life. Universal was able to assist clients by undertaking an antiviral disinfectant service by way of “fogging” the workspace in readiness for reopening. Non-toxic, such propcessed killed pathogens including Covid-19 and was 10 times quicker than conventional cleaning. Where requested, Universal covered and sealed the treated office chairs with plastic sheeting after fogging so the returning staff could see their work area has been cleaned and is ready.
We changed our working practices to allow us to support our client’s new operational requirements and practices. This means we effectively changed the way we worked to ensure our operatives and our clients were safe and their employees could safely return to work or if at work, could rest assured that they continued to remain safe whilst work was undertaken around them.
We supported our clients to follow current government guidelines on social distancing. This involved moving from agile working to fixed working positions or reorganising desk, canteen and meeting rooms layouts to ensure sufficient distance between tables, desks and chairs.
Where clients decided to allow staff to remain working from home, we were happy to assist in delivering people’s office furniture to their home-offices to allow them to continue to work safely at home. If new furniture was being delivered, we provided a team of furniture fitters with many years of experience in building and moving furniture.
We remain happy to support our clients in reconfiguring their workspace, whether that means removing desks and furniture to our facility for storage, re-spacing desks or reconfiguring systems furniture.
Repurposing spaces and reconfiguring office workspaces may result in the need for surplus furniture to be stored off-site. We can offer competitively priced storage for such furniture on a short or long-term basis, or assist in recycling redundant furniture if it no longer required. All furniture or equipment that is no longer required can be collected and stored in our secure, 24-7 CCTV monitored storage facility.
A comprehensive inventory is provided to the client as a matter of course to allow for items to be returned as and when required.
As relocation experts, Universal can assist with any requirement to move office furniture, filing and people’s belonging either to additional floors within your current building or should it be deemed necessary, to alternative accommodation in a different building.
Universal have our own qualified IT professionals who work with our removal teams and can assist in the delivery and setting up of technology and office equipment.
