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When the Office Is Like a Biohazard Lab

Lauren June 08, 2020

Before heading in each day, workers will be required to log on to a new app the giant networking company designed, and answer several questions about their health. Have they had close contact in the last 14 days with anyone who received a Covid-19 diagnosis or was suspected of having a coronavirus infection? Within the last 24 hours have they experienced chills, sho...

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Popularity Of Newer Offices With Wellness Perks Leaps Post-Pandemic

Lauren June 05, 2020
From January until mid-May, four- and five-star office space represented 49% of gross leasing activity, representing a 3% jump compared to previous years. Lower-quality buildings attracted an even smaller share of new deals than in previous years, according to new data from CoStar Group.
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The Office Is Far Away. Can Its Culture Survive?

Lauren June 05, 2020
An online plank-holding contest. Walk-and-talk meetings held outdoors via Zoom. A companywide game show based on Netflix’s “Love Is Blind,” capped with a virtual dance party. American companies are experimenting with new ways to replicate the camaraderie that once defined day-to-day life inside an office as a ...
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Miguel McKelvey out at WeWork

Lauren June 05, 2020

Miguel McKelvey is leaving WeWork, the embattled office-sharing company he helped found in 2010. McKelvey was one of the few remaining executives at WeWork following its failed attempt to go public and ...

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Colliers publishes Technology Framework to create safe workplaces

Lauren June 04, 2020
Colliers International has launched a framework of technology solutions to help its clients create safe workplaces as staff return following the easing of the pandemic enforced lockdown. Colliers said the framework provides full details on "each piece of technology, including a working database of solutions that is constantly under review, and provides tailored recommendations based on the size an...
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Big Tech vs. Big Office

Lauren June 03, 2020
There has been a flurry of news over the past few weeks about major tech companies embracing work from home (WFH) policies indefinitely. There's no doubt that this will have a dramatic effect on the 
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Office Towers Are Still Going Up, but Who Will Fill Them?

Lauren June 03, 2020

Before the pandemic shut down businesses, a robust economy had powered a building boom, sending office towers skyward in urban areas across the United States. The coronavirus outbreak, though, has scrambled plans and sent jitters through the re...

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Equiem launches Smart office dashboard suite

Lauren June 03, 2020
The global tenant engagement solutions provider for commercial real estate is helping companies and employees get back to work safely through a series of dashboards that report on real-time lobby traffic, building occupancy, air quality and other key measures delivered by sensors throughout a building.
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Unwinding The WeWork Portfolio In UK Regions: The Landlords Are Talking

Lauren June 03, 2020
WeWork’s Manchester and Birmingham landlords are considering whether to operate flexible workspace themselves or under management agreements, or to find new occupiers for WeWork hubs, as the global coworking giant reconsiders its property portfolio. The discussions, reported to be managed on behalf of WeWork by Knight Frank and JLL, are expected to conclude early next month. They will decide t...
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Co-Working Firms Respond to Industry Threat With Joint Safety Effort

Lauren June 02, 2020
More than 20 of the world’s largest co-working firms, suffering a threat to their business from the pandemic, have agreed to coordinate in a way that would have been unheard of before the crisis. The firms, which include Industrious and Convene in the U.S., JustCo of Singapore, and IWG PLC of the U.K., have formed a new umbrella organization known as the Workplace Operator Readiness Council.
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