I have a degree in Industrial and Systems Engineering. The only reason I knew what I would be doing after graduation was that I had completed two fantastic internships with UPS Supply Chain Solutions and they were offering me a job. It just happened that the role was in their facilities engineering team that built…
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The future is going to show up for us no matter what we do or say. We may be able to influence it, but we definitely are not stopping it.
None of us are capable of holding back the tides of time. One way or another, we are all in a race to the future. As the line goes, “Like sands through the hourglass, so are the days of our lives.” For better or worse, Corporate Real Estate is a world that solely focuses on the future….
The good, the bad, and the unnecessary of workplace surveys.
Workplace surveys may be the single most popular and common way of collecting data about how employees within an office work. When change events impacting an office are planned, you can be nearly certain that a survey will be coming out in advance to gauge employee thoughts on various aspects. Insightful questions often include classics…
“Needing people in the office” is a fallacy of logic that leads to bad real estate decisions.
Let’s just start off by acknowledging that most real estate hot takes this year start by trying to pretend the world is not still in the middle of a pandemic. The reality is that most of the world (but parts are still in pandemic restrictions even today) relaxed or eliminated their COVID-19 restrictions between June…
Future-proofing – by definition – requires effort beyond today and into the future.
As the nature of corporate real estate shifts before our eyes, there is a lot of talk about future-proofing real estate portfolios and workplace designs against on-going change. This makes perfect sense as a concept. Anytime things are in a state of constant change, making yourself resilient against future state impacts is wise. The challenge…
Operations are always both deep and wide and should significantly influence your strategic plans
One of the most important aspects of any strategic plan is understanding how it will impact actual day-to-day operations. If a strategy cannot be reflected through the daily work that happens, nothing will actually change. The thing about operations is that while many think they understand it, no one person can actually know everything that…
Considerations for the Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday conundrum in corporate real estate planning
One of the truisms for most corporate real estate teams (whether project management or facilities) is that more people are in the office during the middle of the week than the start or end. This effect is more pronounced in certain businesses and countries, but is fairly consistently seen everywhere. It has existed for multiple…