enhanced heating and filtrations they didn't love it. systems and a take out-only >> one prototype is up and running in amsterdam. cafeteria. >> we are not taking this >> we started as an office lightly. we will do so in a mindful and project with the ambition to get careful way and make sure that the world safer and sooner back it's vaf. at work. >> but some employees say they don't feel safe and worry about in this warehouse day at the spreading infection. office starts. >> he is managing partner in we've concealed these two amsterdam of a real estate firm. employees' identities because they fear being fired. >> i am deeply morally outraged >> people get here and pick up one of the place mats. by our response. i feel like we are not evaluating the risk that we are >> which has converted its office as a test site. taking. i don't want us to be the they took us on a zoom tour. epicenter of the next breakout. >> everything in our office at the molt is one way. whe >> they're reacting to an e-mail sent to staff earlier this ployees can walk and where morning by the ceo obtained by they can't. desks are no longer crowded together. >> in this corner of the cbs news. she tells employees that staff building were 28 desks. at the moment, there's 16 desks. working at home is not as good as staff working at epic. you can implement simple things even if work is getting done, we like glass screens so people can lose big time the culture. sit across from you. this is what its looks like with even workers with high-risk people actually working here.

health conditions must return by happy to be back? >> yeah. very nice. november. >> i have to make a choice better than at home. >> better than at home. between do i risk getting sick so that's good. paycheck. >> in surveys obtained by cbs what might be interesting as well is 120 see what our office news, hundreds of staffers voiced their objections, one used to look like. a lot of people in a small writing, i'm quite frankly embarrassed to work at a company space. not much privacy and difficult to make phone calls. are you going to keep that old that values employee safety so little. and this there will be people office or is it a museum piece, who die because of epic's the way things used to be in the 20th century? >> i think it will be a museum insistence on lurk to campus. >> rushed, shameful, disappointing, wildly peace. irresponsible and a disaster. if the company is doing as good of a job prioritizing with >> the proud father of the safety at this plant as you say herman miller incorporated. >> in 1968, the furniture maker they are, why are the employees describing it in that fashion? >> well, i haven't seen those herman miller introduced the action office. >> action office offers a full expressions and i hope that all range of completely of our employees can continue to interchangeable components for work with us to make sure that all three working environments. we -- that we are doing the very >> we know it better today, of best by them. course, as the cubicle.

>> did you permanently ready to fodder for humor, dill bert surveys? >> i did. cartoons, to the 1999 film >> and you don't remember these? "office space." >> we -- like i said, we have a ♪ all i gotta do is ♪ number of channels that we have -- where we get comments >> the cure for the cubicle was a return to the open office. from employees, including an but updated. it became the preferred design e-mail group, all i was meaning for big technology companies. to say that i don't recall those words from that survey. open offices were depickeds as but we certainly are hearing the concerns of our staff. cool and trendy and to encourage >> just because you can go back in the office doesn't mean that you should go back into the collaboration and exchange of ideas. a study found forcing workers to office. sit side by sided with no >> dr. ann ramon. privacy actually resulted in a >> to forfeit safety with the 72% decrease in face-to-face idea of having collaborative communication. moments is something i just >> is it time to say rest can't agree with. ace, the openyeah. >> reporter: employees who have no choice but to return say they the open office is over. hope the company will it was already over for a lot of reconsider. >> please put the safety of your reasons. it was too noisy and you employees and the greater community first. cooperate concentrate and it was well on its way out the door. >> that was anna warner >> but getting workers back into the office was more than just

reporting. epic's ceo in an e-mail says the moving desks further apart. company is now having >> to have people make that "nationally recognized experts" change after spending months at review its reopening plan and will make adjustments as needed. home, is not. start start sitive imon. a little dust? >> what we need at this point is a lot of studies, what type of work conditions are safe. there's a real advantage in it never bothered me. stopping the movement of until i found out what it actually was. pathogens, but we don't know at this point how dangerous dust mite matter? ewww. different types of open offices dead skin cells? gross! are. >> to reduce the dangers of so now, i grab my swiffer sweeper and heavy duty dusters. returning to the office, rue dusters has three layers that grab, trap and lock away gross dust. teens that would have seemed invasive a few months ago are likely to become common. gotcha! >> new procedures at cbs require and, for dust on my floors, i switch to my sweeper. the textured cloths grab, trap and lock dirt and hair... that before employees go into their office they use their cell no matter where dust bunnies hide. phone to connect with the nurse, no more heebie jeebies. then take their own temperature glad i stopped cleaning and started swiffering. and show the nurse they don't have a fever. other companies the same, and more. >> the privacy considerations are so vivid. we have had the ability for a

long time to track where staff are. are they in the office, are they home, are they on a private vacation. that was all possible before. but it never made enough accepts to the people and the companies that it would be a deal worth making. i think a lot of companies will propose that deal and staff will decide is it worth it to me. >> it's a calculation both workers and employers are beginning to make. . >> managers have learned two things. a lot of what they've learned is how much work can be done remotely. at the same time this distancing has emphasized there is real with herbal ashwagandas help turn the stress life power in interactions. the water cooler is a place of into your best life communication, social bonding, and workplaces do work better live like a stress baller with stressballs when they have more of that interaction.

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covid-19 has millions of americans working from home for their own skjei. but if and when the pandemic passes the question becomes will we be returning to the office and, if so, what will the office of the new normal look like? john black stone spoke to some experts on cbs sunday morning. j from sky scapers in manhattan to sleep campuses in silicon valley, officers across the country have been mostly empty for months. >> this virus is a workplace virus, this is an office virus, this is one of the few things ay in thld down. >> the nd rents office space to major corporations internationally. you're going to be making a lot of changes now. >> that is an understatement, john. did world is different and we're

not going back to the old way. >> for some that may mean not going back to the office period. tech giants, twiser and square have told their employees they can work from home indefinitely. other major companies plan to >> pandemic has up ended many keep offices closed at least until the end of summer, some aspects of every day life. until the end of the year. in some places that includes that's not good for those in the renting library books. kris van cleave reports on one real estate business. community that has foujd add >> that certainly a thought that high-flying work-around. goes through my mind these last few months, what if kevin work royalty 8le-year-old lilly is in from home forever. a hurry, racing to the backyard before this on an average day at to check out a library book. an average company, only about >> oh, i'm ready to grab the book. we have a lot of birds. 80% were in the office. maybe it will be 50 or 60%. sometimes i feel like the birds will swoop down and take it. >> knows who do return may find >> reporter: take it from a drone. in the southwest corner of a workplace that is not only virginia is the u.s. test city healthier, it's actually more for google's test delivery wing. appealing. >> social distancing and professional thank got because you're thinking if i could get my advil and burrito delivered, why can't i deliver library

books? >> initially we were talking about bringing kids and summer reading together. >> reporter: the library immediately reached out with the idea. >> we continue to find ways to bring reading and to bring books to our students. >> reporter: you took that literally. >> quite literally. >> reporter: wing flow in to help. >> a way we can bridge the gap. royalty they can send in a request electronically to the librarian. she finds the book, packages it and drops it off at wing where the book is weighed, as the drones can only carry about three points. then hoisted into the air and raced to kids like lilly, about a five-minute flight away. >> she had stopped reading for a while when we've been stuck home. >> a touchless delivery from above. kids don't have to return them

until in-person classes resume. >> we think it's the only place in the world to get library books dlifdy drone. i have students that are my regular readers that are requesting books. if i can get a book to a student because they were excited to get a droeb delivery, that's almost a success because now they have one more book than they had before. >> it's really cool but you can't talk to the library. >> you want to say thank you? >> yes. thank you, librarian. >> her real reward is knowi kids like lilly are getting lost in the pages of a new story, however it's delivered. kris van cleave, christiansberg, virginia. >> what is the overnight news for this wednesday. for some of you the news continues. for others, check back later for cbs this morning. you can always follow us on line

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