In the course of the five week project for the course DEP301 : Collaborative Design Project we worked in the area of home workspace in context of work-from-home post COVID.

In India it is estimated that companies would implement a hybrid model in the future where people do both work from home and onsite work depending on the nature of the work and the current houses are not designed to accommodate work from home. From our primary and secondary research we understood that people need a secluded space for working. Distractions caused by the home environment like family members intruding, laziness due to relaxed home environment, lack of organisation, etc hinder productivity. Likewise, having workspace and personal life under the same roof could make it dicult to detach after work and aect family life.

In urban cities like Mumbai there are space constraints and people live in small houses so there is a problem of how to accomodate a separate secluded workspace. Our solution which is a wall mounted home-oce divider helps create a temporary work environment and space in the house which people can use for working and after they are done, it can be closed and it takes very little space. It aids the user in multiple ways apart from creating a secluded space according to their requirements. It also takes care of not making the house look odd when being used.

Our business plan includes doing B2B sales to companies implementing work from home as well as B2C sales using e-commerce to reduce the chances of failure. We use digital marketing, distributing pamphlets in oce areas to increase reach and aliate marketing using interior designers for the next versions of our product.

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