Workplace of the Future - Strategies for a Post-COVID World | REGULAR

This presentation will highlight how and where office workers want to work in the post pandemic future and identify how this varies by industry. 

Workplace of the Future - Strategies for a Post-COVID World 

Webday Wednesday Series

Topics: Advanced Technologies

Length: 1 hour l What's included: video, quiz, certificate of completion

This webinar is available to stream!

In this presentation, Joy Charbonneau will go over key detailed findings of the Gensler Research Institutes 2021 City Pulse Survey and the 202-2021 US Workplace Survey. It will highlight how and where office workers want to work in the post pandemic future and identify how this varies by industry. The true purpose of the office will be examined, as well as key considerations around reconnection. Finally, a case study will be shared of a lobby repositioning project that was designed during the pandemic that puts human experience first and Gensler’s research into practice.

Learning Outcomes:
At the conclusion of this session, participant will be able to:

• Identify the key findings of the Gensler Research Institutes 2021 City Pulse Survey and the 2021 US Workplace Survey.
• Recognize that there is not a one size fits all solution to the design of hybrid work, that flexibility is essential to create the “third place”, and the needs of remote workers vary by individual and by industry. 
• Explain the four key considerations to prioritize in a post-pandemic future: reconnection, focus on health, human experience, and resiliency.
• Adapt workplace space planning and programming to the new hybrid model

Subject Matter Expert:

Joy Charbonneau, OAA, Intl. Assoc. AIA
Associate, Gensler Architecture & Design Canada Inc.

With nearly 20 years of experience designing award-winning higher education architecture and corporate workplace interiors, Joy has built a reptation for dynamic, modern architecture and interiors that respond elegantly to their surroundings and delight inhabitants.

Her clients, among them the world’s leading developers shaping cities globally, look to Joy for a rare combination of exceptional architectural design talent coupled with a refined technical ability to gracefully solve challenges that inevitably arise over the project life cycle. 

Considered a vital contributor and promotor of Canadian art & design, Joy co-founded the Toronto Design Offsite Festival – Ontario’s largest cultural celebration of design - and Building Equality in Architecture Toronto – a mentorship and networking-based professional group. In addition to her career as an architect, Joy works independently and collaboratively as an artist, designer, and curator. Her work has been exhibited in solo and group shows at various Toronto galleries, the Toronto Art Fair, The Art Gallery of Hamilton, Brooklyn, and in Milan.