Imagine a world in which much-needed multifamily housing could be built in less time — and for less money. Or one in which owning a car wasn’t a requirement for living outside of transit-rich, densely populated neighborhoods. Or one in which your home could be assembled as a kit-of-parts.<...
With the pandemic finish line in sight — at least for some — now is a good time to start assessing which segments have been most impacted by the events of the past year and a half. In terms of robotics, investments have been all over the place — and for good reasons. COVID-19 seems destined to have a profound and last...
It was almost a decade ago now that I noticed a shift in what my psychotherapy patients, particularly those working in corporate jobs, wanted to discuss. They still mostly wanted to talk about subjects in my areas of expertise—love, intimacy, infidelity, and communication—but the context had expanded. Words such as trust, boundaries, and betrayal had long been reserved for sessions ab...
Companies are gearing up to ask a lot of questions of employees as they begin returning to the office: Do you want to work remotely part of the day, how are you adjusting to new schedules and routines? Some management experts think the most basic, and pertinent, question may be, do you still want to work here?
Ryan Freedman, General Partner at Alpaca Ventures, highlights the importance of understanding your strengths when deciding on your role and career path, and how successful tech investors are able to see outside of the status quo to determine what’s next.
The CEO of WeWork thinks there is an easy way for companies to spot their most engaged employees: They’re the ones who want to come back to the office.
Fifth Wall, the proptech VC launched by Brendan Wallace and Brad Greiwe in 2016, has been flooding the internet with headlines over the past few months. Among the stories: investment from Knight Frank, Redevco, Ivanhoé Cambridge and PGIM; and not one, not two, but three blank cheque companies launched, with a $2.2bn (£1.6bn) take-public of s...
WASHINGTON, May 11, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- WhyHotel, a hospitality platform and operator, today announced a partnership with
Despite bleak forecasts from some experts, the office sector will return to pre-pandemic levels—it’ll just take time, according to analysts from Cushman & Wakefield. The firm’s baseline scenario presented in a recent report on the asset class, has US office vacancy reaching an inflection point and beginning to improve in the second half of 2022, after which point it will “fa...
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 di...