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  • The pandemic forced live events to go virtual. It may change access to entertainment forever.

    Washington Post

    Liz Locke wasn’t sure what to expect when she logged on to Twitter last April, cocktail in hand, for a virtual watch party of classic films. She was supposed to be attending the 2020 TCM Classic Film Festival, but when it was canceled because of the coronavirus pandemic, organizers announced they would instead air previous festival programming on the TCM cable channel that weekend. Locke gamely followed the #TCMParty hashtag and chatted with fellow movie fans as she watched “Network,” “Casab…

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  • Retail Carbon Footprints: Measuring Impacts from Real Estate and Technology

    Real Estate Innovation Lab – MIT

    Over the last quarter of a century, no asset class in real estate has seen more transformation than the retail sector, due to advances in technology, innovations in the supply chain and ever-advancing changes in consumer behavior. Where once consumers flocked to suburban shopping malls and the brick-and-mortar stores of city streets, ecommerce – combined with next-day delivery capability – has completely altered how we purchase all forms of goods. Coinciding with this transformation, climate cha…

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  • At The Epicenter: How Property Managers Are Weathering COVID’s Many Challenges

    Bisnow

    In the past year, everyone has become fluent in debates around wearing a mask, indoor exposure, ventilation and the infection risks of the coronavirus. But unlike many of their commercial real estate peers, property managers, especially those working residential properties, have found themselves on the front lines of this dangerous pandemic, which has radically changed their workplace, workloads, and health and financial prospects.

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  • How To Know If a Building Has Good Ventilation

    Bloomberg

    In October, students at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, held an intimate jazz concert at a bar downtown, with an audience of about 20 peers and faculty members — all of whom held digital passes indicating they’d recently tested negative for Covid-19. Two jazz ensembles performed, sometimes with masks and coverings for their instruments, and other times without.

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  • CBRE Global Investors creates new EMEA Head of ESG role

    Property Funds World

    Epsom brings more than 12 years of experience in the sustainability sector, most recently at WSP, where he specialised in sustainability strategy and reporting in his role as an Associate Director within the Sustainability Advisory Services arm of the business. As a Chartered Environmentalist and a Board Director for the Institute of Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability (ICRS), he will bring a wealth of experience and industry connections to the firm. Epsom has supported a wide range of b…

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  • Compass Files Confidentially for IPO

    The Real Deal

    The residential brokerage, which has raised $1.5 billion from investors including SoftBank, said it submitted a draft registration statement with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Monday. Compass did not disclose the size of the offering. The firm’s last valuation was $6.4 billion in July 2019, when it raised a $370 million Series G.

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  • Built In Honors HqO in Its Esteemed 2021 Best Places To Work Awards

    HqO

    HqO Earns Several Placements on Built In’s Boston Best Places to Work Lists BOSTON – January 11, 2021 – Built In recently announced that HqO was honored in its 2021 Best Places To Work Awards. Specifically, HqO earned places on the Boston Best Places to Work, Boston Best Small Companies to Work For, and Boston Companies with the Best Benefits lists. The annual awards include companies of all sizes, from startups to the enterprise, nationally and in the eight largest tech…

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  • What Tech Giants’ Office Moves Tell Us About the Future of Work

    Work Design Magazine

    As the COVID-19 pandemic rolled through the summer and early fall, what would seem like a dichotomy at first glance started to emerge for office space in major cities and secondary hubs. Big-name tech companies, conscious of the health and wellness of their employees, moved rapidly towards making work-from-home part of the new normal. And at the same time, public information emerged about the tech sector starting to lease office space at close to pre-pandemic levels.

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  • How Microsoft Plans To Eliminate All The Carbon It Ever Emitted

    Forbes

    In January 2020, Microsoft launched a company-wide focus on sustainability by announcing an ambitious goal and a detailed plan to become carbon negative by 2030, and by 2050 to remove from the environment more carbon than they have emitted since they were founded….

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  • Some Americans are dreaming of returning to the office. Others are dreading it.

    Washington Post

    Before the pandemic, Jessica Hullman did not like to work from home. A computer science professor at Northwestern University, just outside Chicago, Hullman drew energy from her students, she said. But away from campus, it dawned on her that the same students who fueled her also drained her focus with their frequent interruptions. In her mostly male department, she was often too aware of what she was wearing and how she appeared. Now she views Zoom faculty meetings as a kind of gender equalizer…

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