As an Industrial Engineer, I love data and all the things I can do with a good, high-quality data set. As a Real Estate professional, I am completely used to working in a world with limited, fragmented data. These two worlds actually come together surprisingly well historically because understanding what to look for in a…
6 big predictions on where Corporate Real Estate is heading over the next three years.
There is a general sense that the world of Real Estate (both Corporate and Commercial) is due for massive change. The pandemic has shown that the way work was done before can dramatically change leading to more work-from-home days and smaller corporate workplace requirements. This then could have a knock-on effect on commercial real estate…
Learning patience is a process that never ends for me.
Patience is not a personal quality that I come by naturally. There is nothing more difficult for me than having a week at work where there is nothing happening, nothing imminent, nothing needed, nothing, nothing, nothing. For most people, this gives them an opportunity to step back and enjoy some well-deserved work/life balance. For me,…
Change, change, change. Workplace occupancy has returned but only when measuring across new time windows.
Are we officially post-pandemic yet? No? One thing we are past is everything we used to know and understand about corporate real estate and how people use the space their companies provide to them. If headlines are any indication, workers are not returning to offices as expected. Companies require a return (Apple x2, Goldman, Tesla)…
I have struggled to get back into writing. Can I rip the bandage off and just go again…?
I thought I was going to be back in April. That was almost five months ago. Before that, I thought I was going to be back in August 2021 with my 10-year anniversary of writing. That did not work out either. My 11th anniversary came and went in a pandemic-era blur. Multiple people have asked…
Moving homes after a decade feels a bit odd but exciting.
I have contemplated moving from a WordPress-hosted blog to one on a URL I control for nearly five years now. I have spent more time than I care to admit contemplating it back and forth before always deciding to hold ground on where I had been the whole time. There is something comforting in the…
10 years ago today I wrote my very first blog post…I don’t even know how to react to this realization
I can just barely remember getting the idea to start writing a blog. It was part of a new organizational change that was going on with the company I worked for at the time. They were embarking on a new thought leadership initiative and I thought I could add value through writing. I was a…
It’s not about being either office or remote…but hybrid and flexible aren’t the right terms either.
This is the age of awful, awkward workplace operations conversations! Topping the list of language we will all one day cringe at are these lovelies: Hybrid working Flexible working Agile workplace Remote versus virtual Hoteling and hot-desking Monday/Friday in-office “How many days are right in the office?” Personas There’s nothing inherently wrong with any of…
A few musings on the nature of uncertainty and real estate delivery
If I had to pick one word that would summarize the last 15 or so months for me, it would be uncertainty. I find it interesting the impact uncertainty has on different individuals. Do you know that sensation that most people feel when there is a long, awkward pause in a conversation – that feeling…
Applying Systems Engineering to Corporate Real Estate
When most people think of engineering, they think of building things – machines, buildings, bridges, factories, roads, dams, etc. In fact, the Wikipedia article for engineering starts off saying just as much. Industrial and Systems engineering is the oft forgotten field of engineering that the “real engineers” call imaginary. Systems engineering is all about optimizing…