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Social Distancing, a Work in Progress What People are Doing
Social distancing modifications is necessary in order to reopen businesses.
Things aren’t business as usual.
The laws to stay in place are starting to relax across the world and business start thinking to reopen. Everyone are desperate to renovate their spaces with new safety protocols to protect employees and customers, and start making money again.
There is a problem. No one really knows what they are doing.
Social distancing is a set of non pharmaceutical interventions or measures taken to prevent the spread of a contagious disease by maintaining a physical distance between people and reducing the number of times people come into close contact with each other. Wikipedia.
Businesses that rely on in person transactions are struggling with the question. How to weigh the health risks of reopening?
Which types of businesses are most worth the risk of reopening?
Guidelines lack specificity for different scenarios.
What’s the best way to redesign an office floor plan to limit interactions?
Should employee temperatures be taken every shift?
Most of the changes in the retail business rely on humans modifying their behavior.
Restaurants?
Now is the time that needs to create innovative designs to help food lovers adapt…