With employers scrambling to update and open workplaces during an uncertain pandemic, many are looking to design experts to help manage their transitions to hybrid remote workforces. Increasingly, some organizations find, firms like Boston- and Atlanta-based Dyer Brown are positioned best to consult on the hardest part: In a nutshell, change management.
The key reason is effective communications — on everything from how to use a new workplace to employee wellness to effective transitions from online to in-person work modes, according to Dyer Brown’s Rachel Woodhouse, NCIDQ, a principal at the nationally active design firm.