Post-lockdown | CEO shares controversial solution to office woes

Almost a year after the outbreak of the coronavirus on UK shores, the routine of entering an office building for many likely seems like a halcyon dream. The subject of much bitter debate, the move away from the office, for better or for worse, seems to have sparked a lasting shift in corporate culture toward a far more technologically reliant remote basis.

Even for those who adamantly attempted to continue in office buildings, the volatility of COVID-19’s meteoric spread across the nation in recent weeks has forced many to return to their homes at the request of the UK Government ‘unless absolutely necessary’.

But, with most UK towns and cities built around the concept of corporate workspaces, the permanent move away from leasing expensive floorspace for many companies poses a conundrum; what happens to these spaces when the workers don’t come back?

According to Snowflake CEO Frank Slootman, the solution is to bolster a real estate crisis taking hold in many nations with an innovative transformation. “This whole notion that the office is your workday home, we realise that is nonsense,” Slootman recently told NBC.