Three-quarters of companies in Europe to change their approach to remote work

The new epidemic reality has forced companies to change their approach to work and office in the long term. Three-fourths of tenants in Central and Eastern Europe have increased the share of remote work and implemented technologies that facilitate it, the CBRE report "CEE Occupier Survey" indicates. 45 percent  of respondents plan to reduce the density of people in the office in the long term, which, according to CBRE experts, means the need to invest in larger offices. Polish enterprises plan first to introduce technologies that will improve operation from outside the company's headquarters (76 percent of respondents).

“The most common way of dealing with the need to maintain social distancing at work during a pandemic is a rotational system of operations, where one week some people work from home and some from the office, and the next one changes. To maintain good contact between employees and the smoothness of projects, many companies are increasingly willing to invest in additional technological solutions. Some companies, however, require the constant presence of employees on site, which creates the need to expand the office space to maintain adequate spacing. Therefore, in Europe, we are seeing an increase in interest in larger offices. In our region, almost half of employers plan to reduce the density of desks in their offices, while supporting technologies for remote work,” Krzysztof Mogielski, head of the CBRE Digital Transformation team in Poland, said.

The popularization of remote work as a long-term effect of the pandemic was most often indicated by companies from the Czech Republic and Slovakia – 85 percent of them answered that. Germany is in third place, where three-quarters of entrepreneurs see the future in this way. In total, 76 percent of companies anticipate a greater share of work from outside the office in the CEE region.

(WBJ)