Building a Business Plan for Returning to Office: Challenges and Solutions

Business Project

Executive Summary:
This report is about the problems faced because of remote working during the pandemic
times. There is a project plan developed to cope up with these changes and make the staff work
from office again. It is important to implement best practices in the office space.

INTRODUCTION
Business project is the project which is made with the aim of attaining the business
objectives. Business project is used to attain the demanded criteria for the projects. It has defined
end date and are not repeatable from the ongoing tasks. It is the management of internal projects
taken from the company's strategy and objectives (Bos-de 2018). Bedford Town residence is a
housing association which is aimed to provide proper housing for local community having focus
on providing assistance and support to the vulnerable individuals. The company operates from
the center of town Bedford. It is going through many changes and problems while working
remotely because of pandemic. In this report is about the building a business plan while finding
the key elements of project life cycle and developing a business case.
PART - 1
Bedford town residency is a housing association which is owns and manages some
number of district and housing which are divided into general housing and supported housing.
General housing works with several teams within the organisation and each team is supposed to
track and manage the issues within that areas. In the supported housing, same type of systems are
used which are helpful in managing the facilities. The pandemic brought in many changes within
the organisation. One of such major change was the lock down restrictions which made the
employees work from home basis (Sandhu, Shamsuzzoha and Helo, 2018). This decision was
taken in considerations of the safety of staff members and security within the residents. With the
increase in the pandemic situations, remote working become the only option left. The
communication as well as collaboration tools used by the Bedford town residency organisation
for its employees are not sufficient and suitable for having a long period of remote working.
Most of the employees were frustrated with the remote working situations as there was no proper
communication. There were few employees struggling to manage the technological
advancements. All these points lead to creating communication issues.
Pandemic has brought in many disruptions in the business world and day to day activities
of the companies such as Bedford town residency. The management of the company decided to
let their staff work from home and the staff who are required to work on site will work with
proper security and maintaining all the safety rules. Employees have expressed their frustrations
due to no proper internal communications and many other problems. Employees were unhappy