How Cloudflare is reengineering its offices for a post-Covid world
As the world begins to navigate return-to-work options in the wake of Covid-19, most employers are leaning into a hybrid work format, with fewer than one in five executives saying they want to return to the office as it was pre-pandemic. Never before in modern history has there been a greater opportunity to retool and reinvent our physical places of work.
Cloudflare, which employs more than 1,900 people across 16 global offices, had always been an office-first company. And it’s been our priority since early in the pandemic to get our people back in the office as quickly and as safely as possible, should they need it. But we understand that Covid-19 has fundamentally—and forever—changed not only the way we work, but the way we use an office.
While offices in pre-pandemic days were thought of primarily as a place to get work done, the office in a hybrid world takes on a number of different functions to serve a variety of needs: a space for creativity, socializing, coaching and collaboration, and in some cases, a regular retreat away from home distractions.
