Going to the office without actually going to the office

By: Brenda Bouw | Globe and Mail

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Imagine going to the office without actually going to the office. Not but a Zoom or a Skype call but by actually “walking” to your desk after catching up with your colleagues in the lounge area.

One day after invoking its work-from-home protocol, Scott Plaskett, CEO of IRONSHIELD Financial Planning, took it one step further and activated CANiWorld, which he’d been “renovating” since December. “The next day, people were having group meetings and not skipping a beat,” he said.

The virtual office space has been built inside the VirBELA Open Campus, which was designed by Stanford University and acts like a campus with everybody walking around chatting.