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 stay-at-home orders. Virtually overnight our business districts emptied as mass remote working began, the summer offered a temporary return to the office for some but as temperatures dropped cases rose, sending employees home again. Nearly every company in Europe, North America, and many other regions have experienced some form of this journey, including workplace design firms and solution providers. One such company, HB Reavis, employs a range of different monitoring and mapping technologies in their London and Bratislava offices. The analytics provided by their smart workplace platform, Symbiosy, provides an insight into the life of an office in 2020, to […]