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COVID-19 Blurs the Line Between Workplace Safety & Employee Monitoring
Over the last decade, tracking, monitoring, and surveillance technology have advanced significantly to help us quantify and understand human behavior in buildings and cities. Enabled by artificial intelligence (AI), streams of camera footage can be analyzed to identify accidents or security breaches, for example. While several attempts have been made to bring this technology into […]
The Post-COVID Office Return Lays the Foundation for Human-Centric Workplaces
This time last year, medical professionals in Wuhan, China, began to report cases of a “viral pneumonia of unknown cause” and the rest, as they say, is history. By March a global pandemic had been announced by the WHO and much of Europe and North America had been engulfed by the coronavirus, triggering lockdowns and […]
The Hybrid Workplace Is Not A Flexible Choice But An Inevitable Reality
We have been talking about flexible work more and more each year for the last decade but the events of 2020 have brought this discussion to the fore. The COVID-19 pandemic triggered a mass remote working trial beyond anything anyone could ever have imagined, as we discussed in March. Now, as we move into December […]
Pandemic Adaptation Means Smarter Commercial Buildings
The world has not had a pandemic on this scale for a very long time. Comparable crises come from a distant past where statistics are largely estimated, when our society was less globalized, and many steps back in our ability to enact public health regulation. Many of the previous viruses themselves may have been as […]
Can Rapid Testing Offer Hope of a Widespread Return to the Office?
This article was written by Owen Kell, Senior IoT Research Associate at Memoori. While much of Europe has returned to some form of lockdown, and COVID-19 cases continue to rise in North America, the calls for a widespread return to traditional workplaces will continue, particularly for activities that cannot be effectively delivered remotely. While health […]
3 Rules of COVID-19 Workplaces: Flexibility, Flexibility, Flexibility
Health concerns, lockdowns, and stay-at-home orders have challenged all organizations in the last 8-months. Some foresaw the length of the crisis and opted for long-term or permanent remote work policies, but the majority of businesses have been left riding the waves of office-return when supported by public health policy and in hope that it might […]
Do Return-to-Work Investments Now Look Wasteful As We Return-to-Remote?
We may not have realized it at the time but the summer months were a break from COVID-19. After severe restrictions and lockdowns in the northern hemisphere’s Spring, regulations eased in June, July, and August, relative to the months before. Politicians announced return-to-work strategies, presenting strict rules for companies to enforce in their buildings. Desperate […]
Q3 Funding in the Global Smart Buildings Space Continues Unabated
This article was written by Daphne Tomlinson, Senior Research Associate at Memoori Predictions of a pandemic-triggered slowdown in funding for the smart buildings space have proved to be unfounded. Q3-2020 has seen a 32% increase in the number of funding rounds and a 69% increase in dollar values, compared to Q3-2019. Memoori’s definition of investments […]
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