{"id":26589,"date":"2021-01-05T11:57:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-05T16:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/research\/?p=26589"},"modified":"2025-04-04T16:59:11","modified_gmt":"2025-04-04T20:59:11","slug":"temporary-capacity-limits-for-office-administrative-spaces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/research\/2021\/01\/05\/temporary-capacity-limits-for-office-administrative-spaces\/","title":{"rendered":"Temporary Capacity Limits for Offices &#038; Administrative Spaces"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\"><span>Beginning on December 26, 2020, Massachusetts implemented temporary capacity limits <\/span><span>to stop the spread of COVID-19 as cases and hospitalizations rise. Most industries are subject to a 25% capacity limit. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\"><strong>The state&#8217;s 25% capacity limit does not apply to experimental\/&#8221;wet&#8221; research labs.<\/strong> It does apply to administrative spaces associated with research, including offices and most non-experimental\/&#8221;dry&#8221; labs. <\/span><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\"><span>These limits are in effect until <del>January 24,<\/del> February 8, 2021 unless further extended by the Governor. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mass.gov\/info-details\/temporary-capacity-and-gathering-limits\">Learn more<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">View full guidance for BU labs during COVID in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/research\/2020\/03\/11\/research-coronavirus\/\">Research Recovery Toolkit<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beginning on December 26, 2020, Massachusetts implemented temporary capacity limits to stop the spread of COVID-19 as cases and hospitalizations rise. Most industries are subject to a 25% capacity limit. The state&#8217;s 25% capacity limit does not apply to experimental\/&#8221;wet&#8221; research labs. It does apply to administrative spaces associated with research, including offices and most [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15731,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[225,463],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26589"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15731"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26589"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56776,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26589\/revisions\/56776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}