We need to be more precise when using the terms hybrid, remote, and return to office. These terms are holding back the conversations we are trying to have across corporate real estate by greying out the middle ground strategy options. Hybrid – It’s a word we all landed on during the pandemic to describe something…
Tag: flexibility
RTO thinking that is SO close to understanding this new world
Fast Company published an article confusingly titled The return-to-office mandate is here. So is the open office. One has to go. To pull some background forward, the author states they are someone with dyslexia and ADHD who has struggled to work effectively from traditional corporate designed offices. Right off the bat, sentence number one, we…
Considerations for Moments of Spark and Connection in the office.
The single best reason I come across for why offices are still critical to business strategy is that they are enablers of collaboration. Specifically, when people are together, it can generate moments of spark and connection, leading to innovation and creation. I cannot fault this reasoning because I have personally felt and experienced those sparks…
Activity-based workplaces have a fundamental flaw you must address upfront or be in danger of a bad workplace experience.
Everyone is about hybrid working. Which naturally changes the way people use the office. This leads us to ask what they are doing in the office. And all this eventually leads to the question: What if I design my workplace around these activities my employees perform? Surely, designing around activities is an efficient methodology. The…
Flex in Corporate Real Estate is taking on a whole new meaning.
When someone says “flex” to a person in CRE, it usually is shorthand for coworking. It means space that is on a short-term agreement that may or may not be shared with others. In most cases, the focus is on smaller use cases meaning the need for a handful of people up to maybe 10k…
How should a good workplace experience be designed? A semi-detailed examination of the trade-offs to real estate strategy.
At the WorkTech New York 2019 conference this year, the final speaker of the day was brought in to challenge the status quo of how a room of real estate professionals think about real estate. He made the argument that since the advent of the cubicle the workplace has gotten progressively “sadder.” It’s an argument…