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Former Google CEO and Chairman Eric Schmidt said workplaces will have to make accommodations for social distancing practices as they reopen in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.

Schmidt said “a lot” of jobs will continue to exist, but will “operate in different ways.”

“We’re going to have to reimagine how the workplace works. We’re going to have to figure out how to get people into buildings that they’re fearful of,” he said on CBS’s “Face the Nation.”

Schmidt expects there will be a higher demand for office space, as people will want more space for social distancing.

Workplaces will also have to think about “hub and spoke systems” that would allow local people to limit traveling far to avoid public transit systems, he said.