As we return to the office, companies are striving to protect their employees while providing assurance that their workplace is safe. Continuing research will further illuminate how safe our workplaces could be, although consistent guiding principles from leading healthcare and other professionals have already been widely published...and many of these guidelines are illustrated here, with the use of HBF products.

An equally consequential aspect of our return to the workplace, involves creating a place people want to return to. In our effort to make the workplace safe we should avoid making it clinical, and neglecting our desire to work in spaces that inspire us. While the convenience of working at home proved more productive than predicted, the desire to return to the workplace is largely rekindled by our need to emotionally reconnect with others. And this emotional reconnection will be more gratifying when the environment our employees return to, is at least as inspiring as the homes they left.