What happens next?

What is going to happen when everything reopens but immunocompromised people have to keep being extra careful or risk serious illness or die? Will you have to choose between danger and your assistantship position and getting your degree? Will the already terrible job market be less navigable because you cannot attend conferences and travel like your colleagues? Have you fought, furiously, for a decade, just to find the nearly impossible to be even more impossible? Are you going to have made it this far just to get seriously ill by a virus that the government cannot, or will not, work to contain? You cannot stop thinking through all of this. It is not just anxiety, this is real. How do you ignore real? How do you ignore exhausted? How do you ignore sadness and fear?

You know, of course, that you are not the only one with these issues and more, or even worse, constantly on the mind. This is not a contest of fears and miseries, but you know that there are many who agree with these sentiments. Fortunately, there are businesses across the country right now that are making use of this forced shut down time to make certain that their work spaces are as safe as possible. From the installation of warehouse partitions to adding prefabricated office walls to spaces that were only cubes in the past, there are many ways to create a more separated working in environment for many employees. And while the health of the nation will still depend on people staying home when they are sick, the use of these additional warehouse partitions can serve as an added layer of protection when businesses do open back up.

Many Work Places Find Themselves Reexamining Their Office and Warehouse Spaces

Keeping America healthy and making sure that workers can contribute to the rehabilitation of the economy while the doctors and scientists work on the health of the nation are going to be major concerns in America for the foreseeable future. Until a time when there can be a vaccine made available, in fact, it is going to be important that both large and small businesses look at the advantages offered by adding warehouse partitions and other kinds of prefabricated office solutions. Fortunately, there is an entire industry that strives to make sure that every work space is as safe as possible. And with the use of prefabricated warehouse partitions many buildings can be quickly transformed into a much safer work space.

Consider some of these facts and figures about the ways that modular spaces of the past might be used to create safer working conditions in the future:

• Modular construction is becoming increasingly popular for hotels. For example, Marriott International pledged to modularly construct 13% of its North American developments back in the year 2017. Today, those same technologies can be used to help create safer work spaces for many employees.
• Because 60% to 90% of all prefabricated construction occurs in a warehouse or factory, projects of various sizes can be completed much faster when using these methods.
• In addition to providing a safer environment, modular construction can reduce waste materials like cement, bricks, timber, concrete, wood pallets, shrink wrap, cardboard, and plasterboard by as much as 90%, according to UK-based WRAP (Waste and Resources Action Programme).
• As early as the year 2011, prefabricated and modular construction was particularly popular for certain commercial applications. In fact, 49% of respondents used these processes for healthcare facilities, while 42% used them for dormitories and other college buildings, and 42% used these methods to construct manufacturing facilities.
• As an additional advantage, modular construction reduces energy consumption during the building process by nearly 67% and reduces energy costs later on for individual occupants.

We are living in unprecedented times, and it is important to note that there are many people and businesses who will be needed to create the kind of safe work settings that will be needed to reopen the economy. No one wants to put themselves or their families at risk, but many people realize that getting back to work is also a necessity of the nation’s economy. Safety matters.