Open AccessCOVID-19, smart work, and collaborative space: A crisis-opportunity perspective
Author(s) -
Richard Hu
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
journal of urban management
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2589-0360
pISSN - 2226-5856
DOI - 10.1016/j.jum.2020.08.001
Subject(s) - pace , perspective (graphical) , covid-19 , work (physics) , space (punctuation) , new normal , crisis management , public relations , political science , outbreak , computer science , geography , management , economics , engineering , medicine , artificial intelligence , infectious disease (medical specialty) , operating system , mechanical engineering , disease , geodesy , pathology , virology
In this essay, I employ a crisis-opportunity perspective to approach the practice of smart work and the making of collaborative space in responding and adapting to COVID-19. These trends have been emerging at a faster pace in the recent decade, facilitated by a growing knowledge economy and information technological advancement. COVID-19 provides an extreme setting to test and trigger changes, and are likely to translate these emerging trends into a new normal in the way we work and the way we use space. This new normal, once established in the post-CVOID-19 world, will necessitate a new thinking about workplace management and space design to disrupt many norms rooted in an industrial age.