Six Feet Apart Examples
Six Feet Apart Example Categories
Corporation
Apple - Product Development
Whole Foods - Customer
San Francisco Chronicle
Honda Lunch Breaks
Goldman Sachs
SME's
Bernie's Coffee Shop
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Governments
Running Press Conferences
Political Debates
Police Departments
Institutions
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Corporation
Industry: Consumer Electronics
Internal Teams: Product Development
Before Corona Virus
Apple's special operations team tasked with top-secret projects building new products work behind secure doors and blacked-out windows and locked cabinets
Six-Feet-Apart Solution
Working from home, apple employees during meetings trace shapes in the air to describe components they've had to leave behind in the office. Key hardware engineers can still go to the office, some employees are allowed to bring early version of secret projects home
Why does it work?
Apple is adapting and continue to work on new device models from the Apple watch to the HomePod. Apple's team is focused on continuous product development while working from home
Industry: Automotive
Internal Teams: Cafeterias
Before Corona Virus
Need: Refueling and relaxation time with colleagues
Sitting together around a table with friends and co-workers to eat, share joke and relax.
Six-Feet-Apart Solution
Clearly marking 6 feet apart spaces for Sitting
Workers sit at corners of squared marked out to be six feet apart. Gone are the
What is Next?
Benefits: Social distance is maintained
Cons: Uncomfortable and antisocial
Improvements: Add human interaction through technology like iPads
Industry: Grocery store Health food store
Customers: Grocery Shopping
Before Corona Virus
First come, first-serve and no limitation on flowing in and out of the stores. People could do grocery shopping with no significant distance
Six-Feet-Apart Solution
Wholefoods is operating under social distancing guidelines in the stores and facilities, ensuring that interaction among team members and between team members and customers can happen at a safe distance
Why does it work?
Customers feel comfortable entering the store and avoiding human interaction with the customers or WholeFoods Staff, the staff also feels comfortable working and taking preventive measures to be safe. The staff has more flexibility and benefits on payments
Industry: Newspaper Industry
Publishing Remotely
Before Corona Virus
Journalist and reporters will go around talking to people on-site, at conferences to gather the information and create reports with a high human interaction while doing the job
Six-Feet-Apart Solution
Local newspapers step up with pandemic coverage and remote solutions. The staff is working remotely for newspapers, websites and television networks. Some newspapers are being published remotely like San Francisco Chronicle, Seattle Times
Why does it work?
They are adjusting using technology like video conferencing and slack to take reports out. They are reassigning reporters from different industry to relocate them on the virus news and the businesses has been positively affected getting more subscriptions.
Industry: Investment Banking
Rotating teams
Before Corona Virus
Offices would host all departments in one or more buildings where people would interact across departments on a daily basis.
Six-Feet-Apart Solution
Employees are split into 2 groups and rotate on a weekly base. Employees are doing rotations between working remotely or from a main office, or are being assigned to a backup location, depending on their roles. In between groups, the offices get cleaned thoroughly.
Why does it work?
Investment transaction can still be conducted while social distancing and rotational measures in distinct groups will help avoid human physical contact and thus reduce opportunities for a virus to spread.
SME's
Industry: Child day care services
Keeping children safe and care solutions available
Before Corona Virus
Parents were allowed to enter the daycare centre to handover their children and temperatures of the children were only measured when showing signs of illness.
Six-Feet-Apart Solution
Parents handover their children through an improvised lock system, which makes sure the parent does not have direct contact with the employees. Children their temperature gets checked upon arrival. Employees use latex gloves and mouth masks while conducting certain tasks.
Why does it work?
The risk of being exposed to the Corona virus gets reduced for the employees, the children and the parents. Parents can still bring their children to the daycare centre knowing that the children are being cared for under the best possible circumstances and can focus on their jobs or household duties.
Institutions
Industry: Education
Enabling students to attend class online
Before Corona Virus
Students would conduct in-person lectures in cohorts of up to seventy students.
Six-Feet-Apart Solution
All lectures, group projects and tests have been switched to online platforms and are now being conducted remotely in online based cohorts.
Why does it work?
The solution allows students to attend lectures, deliver and collaborate on projects and conduct tests, all without being exposed to a potential infection with the Corona virus.
Industry: Education
Having remote-controlled robots for a virtual graduation
Before Corona Virus
Students would have their graduation ceremony face-to-face to receive their diplomas, shake hands with the university faculty , and share the time with family and friends
Six-Feet-Apart Solution
The university hosted the graduation ceremony virtually by using "Newme" mobile robots with a tablet to host a Zoom call, to enable graduates to have the experience of walking across the stage and accepting their diplomas virtually at a hotel
Why does it work?
The solution allows students to have the experience to recreate their cancelled on-site graduation ceremony . Zoom allowed just a few avatars to be used for all the graduates, without the risk of all the people in one room together.
Government
Industry: Government
Press Conferences
Before Corona Virus
Conferences would be held in a crowded common area with multiple people in the same room to ask questions during a press conference
Six-Feet-Apart Solution
At the White house, they are delivering news and conferences distancing by keeping reporters' chairs four feet apart from each other because of the threat of transmission of the novel coronavirus
Why does it work?
Press conferences and news report can still be run taking the appropriate measures and they lead by giving the example to the nation
Industry: Government
Political Debates
Before Corona Virus
Debates would be hosted with a closer distances and candidates would be shaking hands and higher chances of human contact would occur
Six-Feet-Apart Solution
Keeping the political campaigns and debates running but with social distancing taking their fighting stances 6-feet apart and began with an elbow tap versus a handshake
Why does it work?
Leading by example is important for being safe the nation to understand they are taking preventive measures to continue their political campaigns running
Industry: Police Departments
Escondido Police Department San Diego
Before Corona Virus
Under normal circumstances the department deploys officers in overlapping 10-hour shifts.
Six-Feet-Apart Solution
One of the first departments to roll out 12-hour shifts with the idea of keeping groups of officers together and, just as importantly, separated from the other groups. New rotation is made up of four teams. Two teams work the night shift and two teams work the day shift and none of them overlap.
Why does it work?
They are preventing police officers from getting infected and transmitting the disease as they continue to carry out their jobs