The Future of the Workplace
Varis Niwatsakul Shares Thoughts on Re-entry into the Workplace
As we enter phases 2 and 3 of the work re-entry paradigm, Varis and his team are one of the beams of light leading us back to the future, and at light speed. “Landlords need to do more to inspire safety and comfort in the minds of their tenants. However this will be complicated because landlords do not want the liability of ensuring safety.”
In no uncertain terms, the work space subsidizes human existence. In the uncertain age of Covid-19, we have to get this right. We find ourselves here again, more consciously than ever, reaching for the adaptivity that has sustained our very existence for millennia. And at the speed necessary to find solutions, we are running on the gases, the very fuel, we must generate in order to work, in real time. Today we are facing a new normal in which there have been multiple Big Bangs pretty much since the arrival of the 21st century. 20 years ago, technology created a level of communication so unprecedented that efficiency became less of a goal than the default mode of transmission.
PLASTARC, the cutting-edge workspace thinkspace that has reimagined a way of working together, hybridizing remote accessibility with real human integration. Varis Niwatsakul is the Studio Lead at Plastarc. Awareness of both the logistics and organizational psychology aspects of work re-entry, and integrating the two, is on the forefront of his mind. Right now, everything his company designs and promotes denotes the significance of these two variables of work.
As we enter phases 2 and 3 of the work re-entry paradigm, Varis and his team are one of the beams of light leading us back to the future, and at light speed.
The technology, the design, and the rationale are all there, ready, and waiting to be integrated. However, one of the most formidable hurdles to activation may be not so much the workers and businesses themselves but, in the case of small enterprises, the landlords who own the workspaces being evolved.
Says Niwatsakul, “Landlords need to do more to inspire safety and comfort in the minds of their tenants. However this will be complicated because landlords do not want the liability of ensuring safety.”
The unique analytical typologies Varis and his team at PLASTARC have developed pushes our metrics for space far beyond the traditional square footage and simple program catalog and into measurable behavioral and temporal realms as well -- essential layers for being critical of the effectiveness of existing spaces and planning for the future.
These are challenging questions for challenging times. To answer them with Varis Niwatsakul, reach out to him on his LinkedIn.