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…
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What is the fundamental role of Corporate Real Estate professionals? #CRE
I feel like I write a version of this post two or three times a year as I try to come back to the core of what CRE really is. To paraphrase an old adage, focus on the things that you can control. Those controllables should be the fundamentals of what you work on. If…
Absolute solutions do not exist today for Corporate Real Estate. Planning must be focused on adapting as conditions change.
I am absolutely amazed at the number of CRE professionals that act as if they know what workplaces are going to be after COVID-19 is behind us. There are articles and white papers and case studies all pretending to have certainty on what people are going to want from the office when returns are allowed….
How much technology should you be planning for in your workplace?
Technology and Real Estate share a strange overlap. Colleagues want a workplace that makes their workday more productive which implies the need for technology. They also do not want a workplace that is outdated and inefficient which implies any technology that is implemented needs to be maintained and upgraded regularly. If a workplace design is…
What’s in a name: Workplace versus Workspace
Naming is something that I have had an on-again, off-again relationship with. Out of school, I knew with a burning passion that words mattered and that a good name could make an idea win or lose. About 7 years later, I knew beyond a doubt that names did not matter and that the ideas would…
Marketing and communications look really easy when done the wrong way
In my current role, I get a lot of cold contacts from various salespeople. Their styles vary from company to company and person to person. There is no one way to do it. Some ask me to look at their public calendar and book time myself. Some are politely asking if I have 15 minutes…
Are you beholden to an out-dated view of your world?
This post started as a draft from December before COVID-19 became something impacting the world. I recently went back through old drafts seeing where my mind had been and this one jumped out as being even more important now than it was at the time. Every now and then, the world changes. Sometimes the world…
There’s a lot going on these days for everyone.
There’s a lot going on these days for everyone. Even when the days are not technically as busy as they used to be, that doesn’t mean that things are easier. Difficulty is a combination of more than just time worked. But then, I don’t think I’m saying anything that the world of amateur writers aren’t…
Now is not the time to be talking about WHERE to work; now is the time to be talking about HOW to work.
I kind of get what’s going on. We are part of the corporate real estate world and workplace is a thing that we can control. Therefore, we all end up talking about what’s going to happen to the workplace of the future. We sit around in our virtual groups and discuss the spike in home…
How to plan when you cannot see a time horizon
“Real Estate in the Age of Social Distancing” will be a book title before the year is out. It almost seems to write itself. Real Estate is a hot topic – particularly workplace. Social Distancing is the new rage (not necessarily for good reasons of course). Throw the word “Age” in to get some buzzword…