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Rapid Response: Healthy offices and the myth of remote-work productivity, w/Diane Hoskins (Gensler)

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Business, Jeff Berman, Startups, Reid Hoffman, Management, Diversity & Inclusion, Mindset, Bob Safian, Entrepreneurship

4.64.4K Ratings

🗓️ 22 September 2020

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Is your office safe to re-open? How much space do you need? Is remote-work really more productive? Diane Hoskins is co-CEO of architecture firm Gensler, which advises businesses from Google to Bank of America. With the pandemic, Hoskins explains, now is a critical moment to ask important questions about what your team needs to work smarter and successfully, and to build a physical space that is not just healthy but enables both collaboration and individual work. From new technology tools to insightful data, Hoskins shares insights that help us move toward the answers we need.

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This moment, this pause of non-normal, right, is going to be a great opportunity to rethink how

0:44.3

we re-enter the workplace. When can we make a safe return to our offices? Or do we have to wait

0:51.5

this out? When is it going to be okay to go back in the office? And how do we do that?

0:56.4

What's the impact going to be on our operations? Well, how much space should I have?

1:03.1

Does this mean we need less space in our headquarters or our office space?

1:09.6

We see this as an incredible time of transformation that can be scary and very difficult

1:17.6

to thrive and to learn the lessons of health safety, to learn the lessons of social change.

1:26.1

And we will all be stronger and society will be a healthier place all the way around if we can

1:32.0

learn those lessons. That's Diane Hoskins, co-CEO of Gensler, the largest architecture firm in the

1:41.4

US with offices all around the world. As pandemic health concerns have radically upended how we use

1:48.4

and think about our work environment, Gensler has found itself on the front lines of helping

1:53.8

corporate clients from Google to Bank of America grapple with a swarm of new questions about

1:59.2

back-to-work protocols and the long-term future of the office. I'm Bob Safian, former editor of Fast

2:06.0

Company, founder of the Flux Group and host of Master's of Scale, Rapid Response. I wanted to talk

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