Accepting the New Normal at Work.

This pandemic made us all wonder, can we still be again normal or accept the fact that this is new normal? We just missed everything especially going to work. It’s been months, have you wonder what our office will be like or the machinery be? What will be like adopting the new normal in a new workforce?

Holly Samuelson a person who is a professor at Harvard Graduate School of design having thoughts on what design will be the best way to have a social distancing and to prevent the spread of COVID in the workplace. He first thinks of what is the usual thing people in the workplace. One of these is the doorknob. It is a waste of time when you open the doorknob and spray alcohol on it every single time. Going up and down to the elevator things like that we need to lessen to touch things to prevent having COVID since no one knows if one of us a carrier of this virus. The American Institute of architecture release guidelines on what to follow for the workplace by accepting the new normal. This will help to limit the contact and prevent COVID from spreading. This will help every company to look forward to it since we need to accept the new normal. One of the most important aspects that will need to change is an unseen aspect: ventilation.

Typically, HVAC systems circulate air around the floor to make sure everyone gets access to heat or air conditioning. That has a downside: “So we're taking my sneeze and we're pumping it back through the building multiple times,” Samuelson says simply. "It's not rocket science to move away from that to dedicated outdoor air systems.” A DOAS, she explains, takes outdoor air and exhausts it more quickly. Bonus: this method is also more eco-friendly. In short, we need to expect to have automatic doors or keyless, every station or cubicles have sanitation or alcohol, biometrics scanning the face this new normal in the office is practically avoiding objects as much as possible. Limit the spread of the virus since we need to limit it but we also need to work. We hope this is temporary but if not we need to accept this new normal.