The design lines between home and workplace have been increasingly blurred in recent years, and now is the opportunity to create synergy between the two.

For many, it’s been six months of working from what was supposed to be a temporary home office setup. While some workplaces have begun to open for limited capacity, or simply hope to open sometime in 2021, it’s likely that many employees will work from both the home and workplace during a transition period. This may even become the new normal for many. To align that work experience between two disparate locations, cohesion should be created by adapting design in both spaces.

Prioritize Workplace Function in the Home Office
What happens when your temporary reality becomes permanent? It’s what many workers are now grappling with, feeling the discomfort in whatever space they’re able to use for working at home, and even experiencing a lost sense of purpose and place. At six months in, workers are likely now acknowledging that it’s time to bring more workplace elements into their personal space.

From using any flat surface as a desk, to hunching over laptop screens, to using a dining room chair not built for eight to nine hours of sitting, the home is often not designed to serve the functions of work. And after six months, with more time looming, that’s being felt.