Blackstone sets office return for some vaccinated staffers

Blackstone Group is the latest company looking beyond the Zoom meeting. The firm wants a full return to the office, and is asking vaccinated U.S. employees in its investment divisions to head back on June 7, according to Bloomberg. Blackstone announced the move Monday.  …

Tomorrow’s Sustainable Buildings Need Today’s Staff To Get Schooled

John Mandyck remembers a career-defining moment when he began working for the Urban Green Council, a New York City-based nonprofit promoting sustainable buildings. The group, which he leads as the CEO, was hosting a class as part of its Green Professions program, which trains engineers and building staff on new technologies and skills. A young man who ran the chiller plant for a building said he had heard about climate change but didn’t quite understand how it worked….

Opendoor revenue bounces back in Q1

The company reported $747 million in revenue in the first quarter of 2021, an increase of 200 percent from the previous quarter, it announced Tuesday. The earnings were a result of Opendoor reselling 2,462 homes, a 190 percent jump from the previous quarter …

For smart cities to work, they need to be neutral and objective

While part of the discussion around digital transformation centres around remote working and cloud-based tech, the development of smart cities is also a hot topic, with many countries making conscious investments in this area.

Threat to smart cities a ‘warning klaxon’ for property

Smart cities are an “attractive target” for threats, the GCHQ’s National Cyber Security Centre has warned in a new set of guidance for leaders of data-driven places.

NOW LIVE: You Can’t Manage What You Can’t Measure, Part 2

Jit Kee Chin, Chief Data & Innovation Officer at Suffolk Construction, lays out the processes Suffolk Construction put in place in order to overcome the hurdles that inevitably come with implementing new technologies.

Employees grapple with re-entry anxiety as jobs call them back

Pandemic-related anxieties are entering a new phase as more employers start to call vaccinated workers back into their offices. Why it matters: Some employees simply don’t want to go back to the office; some are desperate to. Some are struggling to rearrange their routines yet again; some don’t have that flexibility. And everyone — employers and employees alike — is figuring out on the fly how to make it work.

Your next meeting at WeWork could be with life-size holograms

Austin real estate tech startup AnthemIQ raises $10 million for growth

Austin-based startup AnthemIQ, which makes a real estate transaction platform, has raised $10 million and plans to double its employee headcount, according to the company.

Buy now, pay later changed retail. Health care and rent are next.

Last March, in the midst of a nationwide lockdown that left millions out of work, the residents of Wasatch Property Management’s apartment complexes were presented with a solution to the impending problem of rent. It came from a little cartoon woman named Penny featured on Wasatch’s Facebook page. Through an app called Flex, Penny explained, tenants could pay rent in installments throughout the month, rather than a lump sum at the month’s start….