SnapCab has been placed in a position to thrive during the COVID-19 pandemic while providing a service that benefits essential employees in the workplace, according to PR Newswire.

The Canadian company is manufacturing pods that can be placed in homes and workplaces to that provide safe workplaces. Its individual isolation and testing pods are being featured in an Export Development Canada (EDC) national advertising campaign to promote a new reality, PR Newswire reported. There will be two other companies featured by the EDC. The campaign, Business as Unusual, puts a spotlight on the company’s transition from small meeting rooms to the pods.

It all started with a focus on the medical field with prototypes developed after working with medical experts. The innovation continued with SnapCab as it redesigned two of its collaboration pods and begin reworking them into individual office pods. There was also a two-person pod with a glass partition developed as a safe place for face-to-face interactions.

"We saw the need for people to return to the office, and we realized that our products were so flexible that we could help reinvent the office of the future by simply reworking our current pod designs into something more," SnapCab President and CEO Glenn Bostock said, PR Newswire reported.

A Kit of Parts has also been developed to help provide variety and personality to the pods. There are customizable frames, panels, colors, furniture and accessories to help make a space one’s own. Bostock said the pods are preparing for a new reality as people will not be keen on returning to the customary workspace.

"Something we've learned is that people are not going to go back to work the same way that they did before the pandemic," Bostock said, PR Newswire reported. "There's a need now for less office space, but space that is much more flexible where all offices and walls are mobile. That's why we have designed this 'Kit of Parts' – to give people the tools they need to return to work."