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marianne3 August 21, 2020
Yellowed newspapers. A mouse who met its end on a glue trap. Wilted plants. These were the scenes we photographed this summer at three New York City offices — including our own — amid a pandemic that has left millions of people out of work and millions more working from home. So what does the future hold for the office and the workers who once inhabited it?
marianne3 August 21, 2020
Many workers are desperate to get back to the office. In Zoom meetings and socially distant conference rooms all over Wall Street, senior executives are trying to map out a post-Covid world. Or at least a late-Covid world. A big piece of these discussions is figuring out how many of the tens of millions of employees currently working remotely need to return to the office.
marianne3 August 21, 2020
Commercial electric vehicle startup Xos Trucks  has raised $20 million, funding it will use to ramp up production ahead of potential new demand fueled by a landmark emissions rule adopted by California that will require more than half of all trucks sold in the state to be zero-emi...
marianne3 August 21, 2020
Airbnb said Wednesday that it confidentially submitted paperwork to the Securities and Exchange Commission to go public. Why it matters per Axios' Dan Primack: Airbnb had been 
Lauren August 20, 2020
Nimbus Therapeutics used to cater lunch for its entire staff three times a week at its Cambridge, Mass., headquarters—a hip place where the taxidermied office moose has its own Instagram account. Employees got plenty of branded swag, and enjoyed perks such as company-paid spa treatments.
Lauren August 20, 2020
Mall owner Simon Property Group is pursuing an unorthodox business strategy, smashing the foundation of the traditional industry model on the one hand while trying to glue certain elements of it back together with the other. Simon has been in talks with Amazon.com
Lauren August 20, 2020
Commercial real estate brokers and market experts believe the coronavirus has fundamentally shifted the leasing market to unfamiliar territory, and it is time to begin thinking about creative ways to reposition retail, restaurant, hotel and office properties that are at risk of losing tenants permanently.
Lauren August 20, 2020
Breaking into Silicon Valley has become an even taller order for first-time entrepreneurs during the coronavirus pandemic. Seed financing—the earliest stage of startup investing and the start of many technology success stories—has borne the brunt of the pandemic’s hit on the venture-capital sector, data shows. While established startups and entrepreneurs have been able to tap investors to ke...
Lauren August 20, 2020
Workers are returning to the UK’s flexible offices more slowly than in other European countries, new data shows. Building occupancy in UK flexible offices is just 23%, according to survey data from Workthere, the flexible office advisory division of Savills. That compares to 35% in Spain, 43% in Ireland, 55% in Germany and 57% in the Netherlands. The survey looked at the proportion of people tu...
Lauren August 20, 2020
The developer has chosen Equiem as its partner to deliver a digital tenant engagement app across its mixed-use London campuses. Broadgate, one of London’s largest pedestrianised neighbourhoods, will be the first British Land campus to benefit from the partnership. Over 26,000 people are based at the campus, which attracts more than 19 million visitors each year. The app is designed to help peopl...