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Lauren May 18, 2020
I keep reading that because of this crisis, the office of the future will be different, that we are all going to have to show up every other day, sit in enclosed space bubbles, eat lunch alone and ride elevators by ourselves. Stop me when any of this sounds bad. The office of the future sounds pretty much like heaven. Show up every other day? An elevator all to myself? That has been my dream for d...
Lauren May 18, 2020
It is very possible we are experiencing a seismic shift when it comes to where we work. Maybe we’ve had it wrong all along. Perhaps even in the long term, the need to justify ‘work from home’ will be replaced with ‘work from office’ as the rarer occasion?
Lauren May 18, 2020
The valuation of WeWork has tumbled to $2.9 billion amid the coronavirus pandemic and its ongoing business struggles, a tiny fraction of its peak when the office-sharing company was among the world’s leading startups.
Lauren May 15, 2020
Return to work looks totally different across the US. Hear from leading property owners, developers and managers across major US markets as they share their real time feedback on the varying plans for return to work across asset types & occupier types. We are surprised by how different each market is and how employers and governments are reacting and responding to the Return to Work planning...
Lauren May 15, 2020
These firms are doing so under the knowledge that their clients, who are relying on their advice on how to allow their own employees back into offices across the globe, will be watching how it works out for them. “There are a lot of things we need to do well to make it work,” NKF Executive Vice President Roy Abernathy said. “Clients are looking to us to do it well. And clients are looking to...
Lauren May 15, 2020
In March, Lester and Janet Knispel paid $1.55 million for a white-columned house on the second fairway at Isleworth Golf & Country Club in Windermere, Fla. Now their televisions are mounted on the walls and their Porsche is parked in the garage.
Lauren May 15, 2020
Cybersecurity firm Rapid7 Inc. RPD 2.78% last year installed tiny cameras around its Austin, Texas, office to track how its staff use...
Lauren May 15, 2020
The world’s biggest tech fund was risky from the start, quickly pouring about $80 billion into cash-burning startups at high prices. A less-noticed part of SoftBank 
Lauren May 15, 2020
I had a couple of deals in the works before this whole thing hit, and what I’m doing now is following through and making sure everything goes through to closing. It hasn’t been easy.
Lauren May 15, 2020
Big tech! One of the most extraordinary outcomes we are witnessing (or shall I say being bombarded with) on a daily basis is how “work” as we know it is now being challenged during the pandemic. Not a day goes by where I am not inundated with content from companies doing surveys, studies, making suggestions and plans on ...