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  • Office Workers Will Return With Radically Different Expectations And Worries

    Bisnow

    No commercial real estate sector has emptied out more amid the coronavirus pandemic than office, and its future is also the most uncertain. After months of working from home, millions will someday return to their offices with radically different expectations and worries than they had before the crisis. How landlords and employers will respond to those concerns isn’t known, but trends in office design that took hold over the past decade may need to be reversed.

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  • Luxury rental brand Stay Alfred suspends operations, closes social channels

    PhocusWire

    There is increasing confusion over the future of short-term private accommodation rental brand Stay Alfred. The U.S.-based high-end property platform suspended operations at the beginning of April, as the coronavirus outbreak took a firm grip on cities across the country and travelers were urged to stay at home.

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  • Retirement, Real Estate & COVID-19: Will Downsizing-To-The-City Reverse Course?

    Forbes

    Anna’s bright blue eyes light up as she explains her reasons for moving to the city in retirement. A little more than a year ago she sold her four-bedroom suburban home and moved into a two-bedroom apartment downtown. When asked why she downsized to less than half of the space she enjoyed for decades, the excited 70-year-old retiree exclaimed, “Everything is right there. Anything I want—food, fun, it’s all right outside my door!”

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  • Amazon deploys thermal cameras at U.S. warehouses to scan for fevers faster

    Venture Beat

    Amazon has started to use thermal cameras at its warehouses to speed up screening for feverish workers who could be infected with the coronavirus, employees told Reuters. The cameras in effect measure how much heat people emit relative to their surroundings. This requires less time and contact than forehead thermometers, earlier adopted by Amazon, the workers said.

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  • MIT’s AI suggests that social distancing works

    Venture Beat

    In a preprint academic paper published in early April, MIT researchers describe a model that quantifies the impact of quarantine measures on the spread of COVID-19, the novel coronavirus. Unlike most of the models that have so far been proposed, this one doesn’t rely on data from studies about previous outbreaks, like SARS or MERS.

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  • WeWork Directors Lose Bid to Speed Suit on Failed SoftBank Deal

    Bloomberg

    Two independent WeWork directors failed to fast-track their lawsuit over SoftBank Group Corp.’s decision to scrap a $3 billion stock purchase that was part of a rescue package the struggling office space provider secured last October.

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  • Coronavirus Forces Silicon Valley to Reset Its Moral Compass

    Bloomberg

    Before the pandemic, Yiying Lu was known for her work designing the Twitter Fail Whale and the dumpling and boba tea emojis. In the past few weeks, Lu said she was called to a higher purpose. From her apartment in San Francisco, she toiled away in a Slack channel with two

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  • Understanding the Touchless Workplace

    Gensler

    As experience designers, we think of friction as any moment that prevents an uninterrupted flow through the built environment, and we try to come up with solutions that can create “frictionless experiences.”

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  • TODAY AT 2 PM EST: Real Estate Collaboration in a New World Presented by place.net

    CREtech

    In the wake of the global pandemic, today’s COVID-19 world has created significant challenges for commercial real estate professionals: real estate discovery will move online, collaborating online will be more common, office space will need redesign. Owners and brokers need solutions, tenants need guidance. Join us as we discuss innovative strategies to collaborate and help commercial real estate professionals succeed in the new normal of real estate.

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  • Corporate Real Estate Professionals: Employees Will Return in Waves, Not All At Once; Social Distancing And Other Measures Will Continue At The Office

    CoreNet Global

    A survey of corporate real estate professionals at large corporations globally indicates that workers will return in waves, as opposed to all returning at once. From 8-13 April, CoreNet Global conducted a survey of its 11,000 members to gain insight on a key question confronting corporate real estate (CRE) professionals: how, when and under what circumstances will employees begin to return to their typical workplace – the office – when the health and safety concerns posed by COVID-19 have dimini…

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