Post-pandemic, the office will now have a whole new look

Before Shira Berg, 30, heads to her workplace, she reserves a desk in advance. The director at Autumn Communications helped her New York office implement a shared workstation system. With clients that include Amazon, Instacart and Goldbelly, the PR agency doubled in size during the pandemic. But adhering to Covid guidelines with just 27 desks for 45 employees required some coordination. Plus, like so many other offices phasing in a return-to-work plan, not everyone has to come in all the time.