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The spread of Covid-19 worldwide has caused significant changes in all fields. Many businesses had to stop operating with their business-as-usual norms and transferred their employees to an online mode. The design of the workplace had to evolve to accommodate those changes. Many firms and offices have reverted to unusual measures to operate and to also maintain the required safety for their employees. This research investigates the impact of COVID-19 on the office space design, with special focus on the kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The research engages stakeholders through surveys & analysis to reflect the different approaches and measures taken by firms and office-owners in order to guarantee a safe return to their employees to the office, and in order to generate the required lessons learned. The paper adopts both a qualitative and quantitative methodology. The quantitative part of the study provides primary data related to the workspace environment, assessing its post status and highlighting the modifications made in order to comply with the new norms and requirements. On the other hand, the quantitative part of the study offers an in-depth study involving tailored interviews with business owners, in order to reflect on different adopted approaches and to create a better understanding of the post COVID emerging requirements. From the data analysis, the paper concludes with lessons learned that would improve the office workspace design, and to provide employees with a better and healthier working environment that can sustain any similar arousing situation and make the office design more efficient in the long run.

The context of CORONAVIRUS 2019 epidemic and the policy of social distancing encouraged by the World Health Organization (WHO) have pushed consumers to turn to online shopping. Indeed, to avoid contracting the virus by using cash or by going to crowded places, consumers are starting to favor e-commerce. This craze for e-commerce has led to an acceleration electronic payments usage. In order to understand the reasons for the high use of this type of payment during the pandemic, this study tries to determine the factors that drove the adoption of electronic payments (E-payments) during this period. The study is based on the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM), which examines the intention to adopt e-payments by focusing on the role of important factors in the acceptance of new technologies and particularly online payments. Thus, this paper contributes to the literature by examining the influence of social distancing, perceived risk, perceived security, and trust on behavioral intention to adopt electronic payment in the context of COVID 19 epidemic in Morocco. The data was collected using an online survey administered to 265 individuals. The results revealed that perceived risk, social distancing, perceived security, and trust predicted perceived usefulness, while perceived usefulness in turn had positive effects on behavioral intention to use online payment. This research examined for the first time the influence of a new variable "social distancing", which is considered an important factor in the epidemic context, and showed its positive influence on perceived usefulness of mobile payment. It also revealed that, in this particular context, perceived risk positively influences perceived usefulness, contrary to the results of several previous studies, as the risk studied is related to the risk of contracting a dangerous virus. This paper also provides interesting empirical results that allow e-services providers improve their marketing plans by highlighting the main factors that promote the adoption of electronic payments, namely, trust, perceived security, avoidance of physical contact and handling of cash, which are the main sources of contamination by CORONAVIRUS. Nevertheless, it has some limitations, such as studying intention to use instead of actual behavior. This limitation may constitute a new perspective for future research.

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