Industry Surveys

By Jeff Mottle

2020/2021 CGarchitect COVID Industry Impact Survey Results

This survey was conducted on CGarchitect.com from October 16, 2020, to November 30, 2020.  The survey was taken by 549 global architectural visualization professionals equating to a Margin of Error +/- 4% with a 95% confidence.

No portion of this survey may be copied or reproduced without the express permission of CGarchitect Digita Media Corp.

Are you currently employed or running a business in architectural visualization?


How confident are you finding another job?


When did you lose your job?

Did you quit/resign from a job since COVID?


Why did you resign from your previous job? (Select all that apply)

Are you currently working from home?

Please describe your work/life balance


Has your personal income been affected by the impacts of COVID?


How much has your personal income or salary changed since COVID?


Are you currently an employee or the owner of a company?

How secure do you feel about your current employment?


Did your company take government COVID aid to assist with the impacts of COVID?

Please describe the current level of quotes and prospective business compared to what you would expect on average.


If no new work came in and you did not rely on retained earnings or additional sources of funding, how long would you have before you would have to reduce staff or reduce costs to minimize impacts to the business?

Considering all factors (jobs in progress, retained earnings, access to capital and account receivables etc.) how much "runway" does your company have before it would be forced to make cuts in expenses or staff?

How has COVID impacted your gross revenue in 2020 compared to 2019?


How optimistic are you about the visualization industry?


Please rate the interest in different production deliverables offered by your company since COVID.

Please rate the interest in project types since COVID

Please indicate how spending levels have changed since COVID

Do you have employees?

Please indicate how staffing levels have changed since COVID


Please indicate how you anticipate staffing levels to change over the next 12 months

Have any of your staff already moved away from your current office locations (to a new city or country) and will continue to work remotely for the foreseeable future?


Please answer if any of the following statements are true in your physical office locations.

How has COVID impacted your productivity?


Please rate how communications have been impacted by COVID and your work environment.

As it pertains to the impacts of COVID on your mental health please indicate how you are feeling. (Stress, anxiety, depression, isolation etc.)


Have your working hours changed since COVID?


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A global survey on the impacts of COVID on the architectural visualization industry.

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Jeff Mottle

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