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Hello!
This is Shimojima, a writer.
Well, everyone. How many people at your company are absent from work due to fever or poor health?
In spring, summer, autumn, and winter, you may get sick at the change of seasons, or you may get seasonal viruses such as influenza and herpangina.
There are many times throughout the year when you tend to get sick.
In that case, I am still concerned about infection control measures for employees.
An employee who came to the office fell ill, and the members who worked with him fell ill across the board... I don't want to be in a situation.
In this article, we will introduce four useful functions of Colorkrew Biz, a desk layout that is useful for social distancing in the office, which is also related to managing employees' physical condition.
4 Desk Arrangements to Help With Social Distancing
When you come to the office, you will have a lot of contact with people, such as conversations with members who are close to you, as well as face-to-face meetings in conference rooms.
At such times, if there are employees who are not feeling well, I am especially concerned about infection among members who worked with me nearby.
In addition to taking measures such as managing your own physical condition and washing your hands thoroughly, you should also be careful about the arrangement of your seats.
There are four main types of patterns:
- Back type
It is a layout where several employees sitting side by side are back to back.
Although it has the advantage of making it easier for employees to communicate with each other when they want to ask questions at work, the disadvantage is that there are no partitions, so you may be concerned about droplets.
It is necessary to take measures such as spacing between employees next to and behind them and adding partitions.
- Booth Type
A layout in which partitions are made in the seats next to each other, and each person works individually.
The advantage is that the partition keeps the distance and prevents droplets.
It is suitable for creative work where concentrated input work and ideas are important.
The disadvantages are that it takes time and money to create a booth, and it becomes difficult for employees to communicate with each other.
- boomerang type
It is a layout that connects three wide desks.
The advantage is that each person has a large area, so they can concentrate on their work and communicate well while maintaining social distance.
- Free address type
It is not a fixed seat, but a style where seats are determined depending on the day, and the layout varies.
It has the advantage of being able to communicate with employees you don't usually interact with and reducing office space, but it has the disadvantage that you can't prevent infectious diseases unless you keep a wide distance between seats and install acrylic plates.
Another disadvantage is that you don't know who is sitting where and it is difficult to communicate between departments.
4 Features of Colorkrew Biz for Social Distancing in the Office!
When you change the desk layout in the office, you will actually proceed with the work arrangement with that arrangement, but at that time, problems such as not knowing the individual work situation or difficulty in communication may arise.
Here are some features of Colorkrew Biz that will help you in such cases.
Useful list function to keep track of employee work status
Booth-type layouts and free addresses may make it difficult to understand the work status of individual employees.
In such cases, the list function comes in handy.
You can select the corresponding employee from the list and understand the current work status in detail.
If you have a sudden problem with your work, you can contact them directly by email or Microsoft Teams chat.
It also helps managers keep track of the enrollment status of department members.
Group reservation function to prepare seats that are easy to communicate with members!
This feature allows you to reserve seats for other employees at once.
Create custom groups and register appointments for members of the same department and project members in bulk.
If you decide that it is more efficient to place the seats of department members close to each other with free address or boomerang-shaped layouts, it is possible to reserve seats only for designated groups.
To prevent crowds, use the attendance rate management function to restrict attendance.
To control the number of people coming to the office and prevent crowding in the office, the attendance management function is useful.
When the attendance rate set by the attendance management tool is reached, a warning is issued to warn them.
You can control the number of days employees come to work to prevent crowding.
Seat Analysis is useful for validating changed seats
You have changed your seat in the office, but you want to know what the actual effect is.
In such a case, it is convenient to use the seat analysis function.
This function allows you to verify the effectiveness of changed seats and understand the amount of communication between employees.
You can reduce the time and effort of counting and listening to the number to verify the effect and take measures.
Conclusion
We covered desk layouts and Colorkrew Biz features that can help with social distancing in the office.
There is no right answer to this when it comes to managing employees' physical condition, but we want to do everything we can to wash and disinfect our hands.
However, there are limits to individual measures, so it is also necessary for the company to consider seating arrangements that allow social distancing to be maintained and avoid contact between people.
However, stop taking excessive measures and consider balanced measures to avoid a lack of communication between employees.
Colorkrew Biz has functions that are useful for inconvenience when changing the seat arrangement and for verifying the effect, so if you are interested in the company's representatives, please contact us.
There are other features available, so please feel free to contact us.