Being mindful of long term implications of Covid, the impact on your employees and office space, is a key to consider when evaluating your office space layout.
Here are three design and layout strategies which could minimize the influx of large groups of people congregating in common areas or for employees feeling uneasy to return to work.
1) Individual Offices for Employees
The past few years an open office layout was trending for companies to create collaborative workspace areas. Going back to having employees with their own individual offices will limit exposure and minimize the amount of air being shared amongst other employees. With a surplus of subleases
2) Tenants Have Their Own Bathrooms and Kitchen
Having a space that provides the Tenants with their own kitchen in a Full Service building is something you typically see across Tampa Bay in Westshore, Downtown Tampa and Downtown St Petersburg. Larger Tenants, when negotiating their build out in a Full Service building could have a restroom added to their build out. Negotiating any real estate transaction boils down to the economics of the deal.
Ensuring your own restrooms is usually common for single story or single Tenant buildings. If having your own restroom is important, this will restrict what buildings you will be evaluating when touring. Considering a sublease space might be a viable option for your company!
3) Tenant has their own entrance into the building
Similar with sharing bathrooms in a Full Service building, sharing common area entrance, lobby and even Tenant lounges or conference centers is an amenity in Full Service buildings Landlords have added. To minimize the influx of people in these areas at the same time or multiple people using the same area at different times, leasing a building where each Tenant has their own entrance will minimize any shared space. Having your own entrance into a building is achieved by leasing a single Tenant building, meaning, you are the only Tenant leasing in the building or a building which has walk-up entrances with no common area lobby is shared.
No one has all the answers, however; the health and safety of employees should be a top priority. By taking the necessary precautions it will satisfy the employees and avoid adding to the surplus of sublease space. Give our team at Office Space Brokers a call 813-289-3700, for a consultation to strategize your company’s office space steps.