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The future of office demand is a hot topic around the country as COVID-19 required companies to engage in the largest work-from-home experiment in history. After a three-month mandatory hiatus, these firms and employees have largely successfully adjusted to working from home, but new surveys point toward workers looking to get back to normal routines instead of working from home permanently.
Flex-office startup Knotel said its revenue plunged 20 percent during the second quarter, offering a glimpse of the economic toll the pandemic is having on the office market.
WiredScore, founded to score commercial buildings based on their level of internet connectivity, is moving to standardize another real estate buzzword. The proptech company has formed a council of major real estate, tech and finance companies, including Hines, KPMG, Fifth Wall and PGIM Real Estate, which will be tasked with creating a smart building certification system, WiredScore announced Thu...
In this episode of Fly on the Wall, Brendan sits down with Jeff Blau, CEO, Related Companies, the developer behind New York City's Hudson Yards. Jeff explains the art of curation that comes from building a retail destination that functions as a "city within a city" (e.g. a space where visitors can live, shop, work, and dine) and the heightened responsibility landlords now hold as "micro-mayors" of...
As the country reopens, you might start seeing more images like these: real-time heat maps that could find sick people, before they know they are sick. And in a post-quarantine world, you might start having your temperature taken. A lot.
The largest productivity increase was identified in the Technology and Media sectors. The highest productivity decrease was in the Education and Research sectors. Respondents miss the office as a place to collaborate and bump into co-workers. But also separation between work-life and home-life is important.
One way to reduce the spread of coronavirus is to maintain ventilation with plenty of fresh air. But what does that amount to in buildings? The pandemic is challenging long-held conventions for offices to be cool, dry, shaded from direct sunlight and mostly sealed off from outside air. Researchers say those conditions can help spread and sustain the virus, prompting manufacturers of heating, venti...
Technology startups have been laying off tens of thousands of workers to cope with the economic fallout of the coronavirus pandemic, potentially blunting a key innovation pipeline for the enterprise information-technology market, according to industry analysts. “Startups are a great source of innovation in the IT industry, but are now especially cash constrained,” said Max Azaham, a senior res...
SAN FRANCISCO—After COVID finally weaves its way through the country, the workplace will take on monumental changes. But as many offices go remote, where people work will likely change as well.