Andrew Barraclough, vice-president of design at GSK discusses how designers in pharma have had to adapt to remote working conditions and why collaboration is still key.
Remote working
From marketers to accountants, analysts to solicitors, office-based workers have had to up sticks from their open plan offices, ditch their commutes, and embrace home-working on a scale never before witnessed. The universality of coronavirus has meant that a myriad of professions, across continents and sectors, have been required to shift to remote working. Key workers and situation-based roles aside, our homes have become our workspaces for the past six months.
For my organisation, this has been a global mass trial of home working – a pilot on an unimaginable scale of 20,000 people working from home.