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The Covid pandemic has “put a rocket boost under working-from-home and driving the debate about the purpose of the office” according to NatWest boss Andy McBain.

Businesses have gone through unprecedented change this last year, and there will be more to come. The pandemic has forced companies to re-think everything, including for many their office space.

If you look up the definition of change in the dictionary, it refers to making something different, altering or modifying. We have come to view change as a disruption to normal practice.

Pre-Covid, traditional change management was often a laborious process for many businesses, taking time to implement anything new. Now, businesses are coming to realise that the type of change management required in the wake of the pandemic needs to be much quicker, and more agile.

Just over a year ago, COVID-19 closed businesses around the world; workers packed up their desks, turned off the lights and went home, leaving offices empty. However, employees soon adjusted to the “new normal”, and the dormant offices left behind gathered dust, with many businesses considering their future: contemplating whether large scale office space was necessary in a post-pandemic world.