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Reopen the Workplace: Facility Mapping Solutions for COVID-19 Recovery MAY 2020 4 Reopen the Workplace: Facility Mapping Solutions for COVID-19 Recovery Executive Summary Faced with reopening facilities, leaders at organizations of all sizes must address multiple, complex challenges and decisions. The White House recently released guidelines for states to reopen and employers and individuals to return to the workplace in a phased approach while recovering from coronavirus disease (COVID-19). However, these guidelines are still evolving. This white paper outlines how Esri and the ArcGIS ® platform can help those tasked with providing a safe environment while adjusting to the evolving guidelines. Social distancing requirements, for example, necessitate a new normal within facilities. Employers must rethink floor plans, especially if their facilities utilize an open floor plan concept. They may also need to designate routes that minimize interactions or avoid contaminated areas. Additionally, employers will need to provide clear communications with staff. This will be especially relevant when or if an employee has been in contact with someone who tested positive for COVID-19 or has been to a contaminated location. Employees can reasonably expect to get a clear understanding of what spaces are off-limits, which areas have been sanitized, and the sanitization schedule for contaminated areas. Communication is especially important for facilities used in COVID-19 response for housing people at high risk of exposure such as medical personnel, first responders, and patients whose symptoms did not require hospitalization. Since most employee contact occurs within buildings, organizations will need floor- aware, real-time monitoring of all occupants. By tracking movements and analyzing historical tracks, leaders can help determine employee contact, the spaces employees enter, and who has been in the same spaces. Organizations with floor plan-scale indoor maps and an indoor positioning system can achieve this level of awareness. As the global leader in geospatial technology, Esri provides robust capabilities for location, analytics, and visualization. Here, we summarize how Esri ® technology addresses major geospatially based requirements associated with reopening the workplace.