Following the COVID 19 problem, the whole world has changed habits, places, tools and means of transport, adapting to new forms of socializing and sharing. Here is a photograph of post-covid coworking.
We've all had the long Zoom meetings at home with the dog barking and the washing machine spinning in the background, but will the future really stay that way?
What will happen to work and the related "places of production"? Now that almost all of us have experienced first-hand the much-requested Smart Working or teleworking, how will we adapt to "old style" methodologies?
Smart Working and home working, a new way of working with your problems
According to ISTAT data, 4.2 million Italians are currently working remotely, a number that will double in 2021. Impressive numbers but for which there is a big question mark: What is it really like to work from home?
In a very short time, the health emergency put the overseas trend that they pretended not to see, smart working, before the majority of Italian employers.
By adapting to this new way of working, the potential of the tool was highlighted, but also the so-called "digital" and structural critical issues as well as an increasingly strong imbalance between work and private spaces.
The home-work boundary has definitely been overcome, to the point that more and more employees require dedicated spaces to be able to work without distractions.
In terms of structures, many houses were not ready to be converted into offices. Back pain and joint pain have now become the canons "lockdown pain”.
Working from home, in fact, has several problems including the sometimes absent ergonomics of desks and chairs as well as the incorrect positioning of the desktop which strains the neck and eyes.
Precisely for this reason, there is an ever increasing demand for new workspaces equipped with adequate structures and which guarantee productivity.
Coworking, in this case, is the perfect solution that intends to combine smart with dedicated, proactive and organized places without having to go back to the old concept of office and enjoying the freedoms that smart working can offer.
The advantages of Smart Working
According to a survey by Aidp, the main advantages found by smart working are the saving of time and travel costs for workers, the increase in satisfaction and individual responsibility.
The evolution in smart has also led to distance learning, the so-called smart learning and most of the work tasks, which were previously carried out in person, have now been adapted to be able to be carried out remotely and this new form will certainly continue even after — COVID.
The companies that have managed to perfectly transform themselves into smart have enjoyed the benefits by pushing their employees to work remotely to reduce costs, see those of premises for exclusive use, and enjoy a better brand image by encouraging their values on safety , flexibility and innovation.
This aspect leads to an ever-increasing number of "nomadic" workers, who are looking for their workplace near home, within a maximum of 15 minutes and which can make them part of a network useful for their professional and personal growth.
The office of tomorrow
(and today how much is changing)
Through a survey conducted by EasyHunters, in which they interviewed approximately 13,000 employees of companies of various sizes and sectors, It turns out that the 80% of them thinks that a smarter way of working, and therefore the relative abolition of the classic office, has no impact on productivity.
And if this wasn't enough, the 90% of those interviewed directly asked the employer to reconsider the company organisation, the methods of interaction with colleagues, customers and suppliers, not only involving the use of digital devices but also adapting spaces and places of work.
The future will be a new hybrid model between the smart office and attention to the person with more fundamental services than ever such as continuous sanitization and cleaning of rooms and workstations, an adequate air filtering system and technologies for temperature control and distance monitoring.
Coworking: a business opportunity to offer benefits in the area
The interest in shared spaces, also in light of the data highlighted thanks to the innovation of Smart Working, is growing strongly.
In fact, it will not only be used by freelancers and startups, but also by companies that decide to move their business to a shared location to ensure maximum flexibility for their employees and not have the fixed cost of owning their own premises. Furthermore, more and more company employees adapted to home working are choosing a dedicated workstation within a Coworking to increase productivity and reduce distractions.
After the arrival of Coworking in Italy, around 2010, the main Italian cities were filled with this type of business (the peak was reached in Milan with one Coworking space for every 14,000 inhabitants), but the medium-sized cities, and some large companies with little offer still have great margin for growth and it is precisely on these that the attention of corporates and companies will shift in the coming years.
The coworking and flexible offices in our area are mostly profitable, the main problem of the structures reporting losses is the partial, and sometimes total, absence of solid foundations for business growth and belonging to an adaptable and innovative network.
Changes Coworking offers support to entrepreneurs who intend to ride an increasingly developing business thanks to the exchange of skills and knowledge as well as total and constant support aimed at the growth of space.
Furthermore, values such as flexibility and dynamism are the basis of the collaboration proposal, thus guaranteeing a proactive and far-sighted relationship.
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