Reserving an office locker can be as easy as reserving a desk in this new agile work environment. Hybrid workplaces and hub and spoke models will require frictionless and seamless locker reservations.
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Metra Smart Locker System: Flexibility
Flexibility will be crucial in the ability to learn and adapt as companies return to the office. Your office lockers shouldn’t be a limiting factor in your strategies to return safely. Switch from assigned to unassigned lockers with the click of a button.
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As we look to safely return to the office, smart lockers can tremendously benefit and support your strategies. You need the flexibility that smart, networked locks provide to deal with a hybrid workforce, hub and spoke models and the move to a more agile, collaborative environment.
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Enabling the creation of beautiful, safe and clean lockers. A practically touchless locker means no touching of a touchpad or combo lock… while creating beautiful lines and easy cleanability.
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Reconsidering the Way We Work, Interact & Even Touch
As businesses start to resume and daily life once again includes some form of going back into the office, we must reconsider the way we work, interact and even touch the materials and objects around us.
We start to think about what will create a feeling of safety and cleanliness throughout the office. How can employees’ sensitivity to the surfaces they must touch be eased, or the proximity of their own space and shared spaces have comfort or even how can employees safely collaborate together?
What Will Become the New ‘Norm’ For Our Spaces?
– Flexible Working & Virtual Environments
– Technology-enabled
– De-densifying of Spaces
– Delineation or Division of Space
– Touchless Technology
– Smart Materials Used on Surfaces
– Resilient Design
Flexible Working is Here to Stay
Working from home or remote locations may become more of a common practice for organizations. Potential Impact?
– The need for seamless technology-enabled environments (virtual and physical spaces)
– Less density of desking & people
– One-day use ‘hotelling’ of desks and strict clean desk policies
– Temporary storage for transient employees
– Modular and flexible design
Temporary Storage That is Touchless
Creating an environment that limits the ‘touch’ of surfaces will be critical.
Touchless Day-Use Lockers
The employee presents their badge / RFID Card, phone or wearable near the RFID Reader. The system will detect the employee’s credentials and automatically pop-open a locker door for their temporary use for the day. The employee puts their belongings in the locker and closes the door with a simple nudge of the elbow. Making the entire experience practically touchless.
In addition to being practically touchless — the face of the locker door has nothing mounted to it or holes drilled. There are no protrusions on the door and the lockers can be easily and thoroughly cleaned.
Touchless Locker Design & Cleanability
Smart Materials & Resilient Design
Consider different types of materials that lend themselves to cleanability and have antimicrobial properties.
– Laminates with antimicrobial properties
– Powder-coat painted steel with antimicrobial properties
– Materials infused with copper
– Solid-surface, nonporous materials with no seams
Design to Feel Safe and Secure
Choosing smart materials and reducing the amount of surfaces that patients, employees, students, etc… might come into contact with can help mitigate the transfer of pathogens throughout a building.
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