New ways of working: returning to a smarter, healthier, and safer office

Re-imagining workspaces for a frictionless employee experience

Navigating each stage of the pandemic has provided an opportunity to find better ways of addressing new challenges. Improving employee wellbeing and safety is seen as the most important workplace outcome by respondents to the recent NTT Intelligent Workplace Report. Organizations around the world are reimagining workspaces as they begin to return their employees to the office. Safe and sustainable working environments combine technology and physical space with an evolving list of health guidelines. Digital tools, systems, and policies shape the new ways of working, driving a more frictionless workplace experience.

Transitioning to a flexible, distributed workforce model

Outside of the ethical and legal responsibilities that organizations have to their people, it is critically important to motivate your distributed employees and demonstrate why they should return to the office as part of their working week.

During the early part of summer 2020, 75% of employees stated