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Despite corporate giants like The Walt Disney Co. and Amazon.com Inc. demanding employees return to the office at least part of the workweek, and the increasingly prevailing sentiment from management that working from an office is best, office buildings in the 10 largest U.S. cities sit less than half full.

Proptech company Latch is laying off 59% of its U.S. and Taiwan-based workforce by November, or about 82 positions, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, and putting new executives in place, including a new chief technology officer, chief financial officer, vice president of operations and other positions.

Commercial real estate is thought by many to be a change-averse industry but a new report from JLL says artificial intelligence is coming for it anyway — and that there is enormous potential in their meeting.

In a recent episode of Allwork.Space’s Future of Work podcast, Jamie Hodari, CEO and co-founder of coworking space Industrious, shared three actionable steps to build a sense of community in the workplace.

Amsterdam’s office lifts made more journeys on average in 2022 than any other European city, with the number of starts doubling between January and November.

In early 2020, Steven Paynter saw an opportunity. The principal at international architecture firm Gensler had spent a lot of time thinking about resiliency in architecture, focusing on making larger buildings out of wood rather than concrete and steel.

Nearly a quarter of office workers believe that the tech in their buildings directly hinders their productivity, a report from essensys has found.

Hybrid work schedules for most companies mean splitting time between remote work and time in the office. For the startup Frontier Talent Inc., it also means rotating through the same office space with another company.

JLL announced that Flex by JLL, its enterprise-grade flexible space solution, has entered into a leasing agreement with Manulife US Real Estate Investment Trust (“MUST”) for the opening of a 15,407-square-foot flex office and coworking space at 500 Plaza Dr. in Secaucus, New Jersey. This opening will mark the first official ground-up Flex by JLL space to come to market in the U.S.

HqO and Building Engines, the world’s leading workplace experience and building operations companies, today announce they are furthering their partnership through integrating Building Engines Prism with the HqO Workplace Experience Platform. The news follows the companies’ initial partnership announcement last year, and enables workplace experience managers of commercial real estate (CRE) comp...