Faced with the approaches that companies make for an orderly return to the office, in which aspects of well-being, productivity, work environment are taken care of and technological challenges are addressed, the global medical technology company, Becton Dickinson (BD ) made an investment of 1.1 million dollars to become the hybrid company that sued 93% of its employees.
After starting the internal campaign “Back 2 BD”, the company informed its more than 400 collaborators of the new strategies under which they would carry out their activities; In this first stage, they will go to the workplace once every fortnight, that is, twice a month, where hours of commuting are saved.
In a tour of the new facilities, whose adjustment involved abandoning one floor of the 4 they occupied in a corporate office in the south of Mexico City, Alejandra Arellano, Deputy Director of Human Resources at BD México Corporativo, explained that “with this strategy, reduces the mobility of each collaborator by 90%, having two days of presence in the office and 18 days at home”.
The use of an application to choose the space they will use in the office; the new offices are flexible and collaborative spaces, mostly free of architectural barriers.
They have natural lighting and ergonomic furniture; cafeteria, medical service, lactation room, open meeting rooms, TecHub -which is a center for systems and technology (IT) support- and a showroom that exhibits part of the BD portfolio.
The facilities have the capacity to accommodate 160 people simultaneously, including the new ‘hotelling’ areas designed especially for field collaborators.