It's time to say farewell to hot-desking

Banks of roomy "superloos". Phone apps that squawk to remind you to swab down your desk. A ban on taking the lift upstairs more than twice a day.

This is just a smattering of what experts tell me the office of the very near future might look like in the age of Covid-19.

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A version of this article appeared in the print edition of The Straits Times on July 06, 2020, with the headline It's time to say farewell to hot-desking. Subscribe