With office, recessions mean increasing vacancies, tenant subleasing space, shadow vacancy, and a tenant’s market with softening rents and declining property values.
Covid’s Short-Term, Long-Term Impact on Office
Get A Comfortable Chair: Permanent Work From Home Is Coming
Indefinite. Or even permanent. These are words companies are using about their employees working from home.
Virus-proofing is a new business opportunity
Gensler, an architecture and design firm, has a workplace floor-planning app that generates social-distancing layouts for desks and other office furniture.
This is What Office Construction Post-COVID Shutdown Looks Like
Should 78 million square feet of office construction be a concern at a time when many workers might opt to work remotely for at least part of their work week?
A Look Into The Workplace Post-COVID-19: The “Anti-Office”
The “anti-office” is the latest wave of workplace design, but how will it change given recent world events?
Shedding Light On UV-C: Which Post-Pandemic Sterilizing Technologies Are Worth The Spend?
Ron Weiner, CEO of office furniture company iMovr, has expressed skepticism about the ability for most office furniture finishes to stand up to the abrasive cleaning products that are often used in increasingly prevalent electrostatic misting and fogging services.
Majority of people looking forward to office return, but on their own terms
The survey claims that 95 percent of workers would favor a return to the office following the development of a vaccine.
A return to work for co-working spaces
Co-working spaces have their own challenges in facilitating the gradual return to business as usual.
Steelcase Teams Up With MIT Researchers To Help Create Safer Workplaces
Steelcase will be working with Dr. Bourouiba to conduct combined laboratory testing and modelling of furniture configurations and materials to determine the best combinations for reducing the spread of respiratory diseases.
Reentry to the workplace should resemble starting kindergarten
Employers should take a few tips from kindergarten teachers to prepare their team for a successful transition.
Watch: Interview With Ryan Simonetti: How Has The Pandemic Affected Coworking?
Ryan has seen the positive side in that he is able to spend more time with his family and feels that he is forming stronger connections with colleagues as professional and personal personalities combine while we work from home.
The Pandemic Might Have Broken The Office Market's Supply-Demand Dynamic. For Now.
The new workplace isn’t a building, instead, it is a network of real and virtual places forming an ecosystem designed to support each individual business. Hub-and-spoke working may be part of the answer.
Five Post-COVID Behaviors And Attitudes That Will Reshape The Workplace
NELSON Worldwide shares five behavior and attitude shifts they predict will have the heaviest impact on the corporate workplace along with recommendations for meeting these challenges.
Returning to Work(place) for Haworth
Agile working boxes: a post COVID necessity?
Storage boxes for hot desking offices offer a slither of protected space in the next evolution of the openplan workplace.
Can’t Touch This: What You Need To Know About Antimicrobial And 'Self-Cleaning' Surfaces
Where antimicrobial metals do work, they can take minutes or hours, which doesn't do much in a situation where the surfaces are being constantly touched by different people.
JLL Welcomes Back Workers As Firm Looks To 'Next Normal' In Office Spaces
The Fortune 500 firm believes a deliberative, measured return, or phased approach to re-entry, is the best path forward.
A Multibillion-Dollar Opportunity: Virus-Proofing the New Office
Tech, catering and design companies are rushing to sell employers on fever scanners, box lunches and office floor-planning apps for social distancing. But it’s too soon to tell if they will work.
Convene CEO Ryan Simonetti On Pricing, Reopening And Redesign
New York-based Convene was the first coworking and flex office provider to close its locations in March as the coronavirus pandemic spread.
'The Crying In The Background Is Gender-Neutral': Can Work From Home Help Balance CRE's Scales?
The coronavirus and the drastic measures to try and stop its spread have significantly shifted how most workplaces view remote work.