Industrious, the largest premium workplace provider in the U.S., announced the formation of the Workplace Operator Readiness Council (WORC), a global coalition of 14 workplace operator members and over 20 advisors who together will develop new guidelines to help minimize the risk of COVID-19 spread in the workplace. The council was established in partnership with international workplace operators that together with Industrious include IWG globally, Convene, Hana and IOS Offices in North America, Mindspace and Talent Garden in Europe, Ikigai in Africa and Awfis and JustCo in Asia, who together serve hundreds of thousands of member companies and millions of employees worldwide.
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WORC is supported by advisors that include Former Acting U.S. Secretary of Labor Seth Harris, Esq. along with companies from the architecture, engineering, design, and real estate sectors that include CBRE, Cushman & Wakefield, Gensler, and Hines. The Council will be advised on public health by Arthur Reingold, MD, Division Head of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at University of California, Berkeley, and Scott P. Layne, MD, FACP, FIDSA, Professor Emeritus of Epidemiology and Environmental Health Sciences at the UCLA School of Public Health.
“As workers across the world begin returning to the office, there’s one thing that unites every country, every city, every company: what matters most is health and safety. No company can act as an island in a moment like this. Collaborating to share information and coordinate will almost certainly produce a better, safer outcome than companies going at it alone, so our industry has come together to do exactly that,” said Jamie Hodari, Co-Founder and CEO of Industrious. “This is a global effort. We’re collectively learning what’s working—and what’s not—in places like Singapore, Germany, etc to work through these challenges and put together best practices. And because we’re all workplace operators, those practices will be practical and human-centered, rather than simply architectural in nature.”
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