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TechCrunch
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 lasting impact on work, and more than ever, robots and automation are going to play a part in that.
Fast Company
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 about a patient’s relationship to self, spouse, family, or friend. …
Bisnow
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?
CREtech+
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.
Wall Street Journal
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.
Estates Gazette
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 smart home technology platform SmartRent just announced through the first of those SPACs.
PR Newswire
WASHINGTON, May 11, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — WhyHotel, a hospitality platform and operator, today announced a partnership with The Meridian Group, a best-in-class real estate investment and development firm for over 25 years, to bring a first-of-its-kind hospitality-infused apartment living concept to Tysons, VA. Building on its unique pop-up hotel experience, WhyHotel will partner with The Meridian Group to create a new standard of high-end, service-oriented residential living at Meridian’s Rise an…
GlobeSt
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 “fall precipitously downward.”
The Real Deal
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 divisions to head back on June 7, according to Bloomberg. Blackstone announced the move Monday. …
Bisnow
John Mandyck remembers a career-defining moment when he began working for the Urban Green Council, a New York City-based nonprofit promoting sustainable buildings. The group, which he leads as the CEO, was hosting a class as part of its Green Professions program, which trains engineers and building staff on new technologies and skills. A young man who ran the chiller plant for a building said he had heard about climate change but didn’t quite understand how it worked….
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