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- The definition of workplace agility across CRE functions varies WILDLY with little to no consistency in the industry. What counts as a desk? Which people are counted? What period should measurements be taken over? How important is the highest occupancy day of the year to the definition?
- Agility scares most real estate professionals because it means that employees are largely responsible for self-managing their day in the workplace. This means that real estate gets the blame for the bad experiences but none of the credit for the good ones.
- Best practices have no meaning because no one knows how to measure it. If everyone measures differently, then comparing experiences is a challenge. Real estate data is notoriously difficult during the best of times, ensuring comparability is always a struggle.
- Remote working, virtual working, agile working, hot-desking, hoteling all exist in the same universe of concepts making the concept of workplace agility that much more confusing. Non-real estate professionals have little chance to really study this on their own. Real Estate professionals have enough challenges on their own.
- Is agility actually a good thing? I’ve had many conversations with professionals across the industry and have not gotten a sense that this is a closed issue. There have been too many bad agile workplaces implemented to allow people to feel truly comfortable with the topic.
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