Tom Field
“There’s increased attention on the employee.”—Lenore Weiss at her “busy” workstation at Roanoke’s Spectrum Design
6 Post-COVID Workspace Trends By Tom Field How are businesses designing their offices and workplaces today—and moving forward? Did the pandemic make a difference? We asked a local interior designer. If you’re a long-time patron of FRONT and you recognize Lenore Weiss, it might be from your recall of a FRONTcover story we did back in March of 2014. That’s when we did a fun little showcase of office design trends; and it featured everything from the conventional layout to the more industrial-functional configuration
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to the growing idea and new preference (at that time) for open floorplans. Businesses were requesting all kinds of concepts, with exciting new designs to implement, and employees nodding their heads in approval at all the new environments. The architectural trends went all over the place and there seemed to be a lot of freedom and choice—including matching those construction ideas to the very brand and culture of the organization. Then… a global pandemic hit.