Open offices failed. These are 6 essentials to make sure the next office doesn’t

Great article found here – https://www.fastcompany.com/90682289/open-offices-failed-workers-these-are-6-essentials-to-make-sure-future-offices-dont Community spaces should cover 25% of square footage in an office. These are high-energy atmospheres that serve as hubs for human connection and informal workspaces—such as lobbies, cafes, and snack bars—and therefore, can have a variety of seating for different levels of comfort. A team “home” space also gets […]

How The Collective is helping tenant’s get back to the office.

Link to The Collective When the pandemic sent us all home last spring, we were all faced with the same question in our businesses, what do we do now? The one thing that was consistent, was that nobody had experienced this before, and it was new territory for all. We knew that there were tough […]

Back to the Office Confidence Statistics

Link to article Slightly over half (53%) of workers expect to be back in a physical office full-time within the next six months. What modifications of an office and office procedures would give workers the most confidence in returning?Temperature scanning (49%)Touchless door entry (34%) Mask detection close behind (32%)Touch-free sign-in and sign-out for contact tracing […]

Office Recovery: The Great Experiment

Key takeaways:
• The great hybrid work experiment is beginning, with most companies (58%) saying they will implement a hybrid model of work.
• In this experiment, flexible office spaces are expected to make up about 6% of future total office space in the market.
• Office vacancy is predicted to increase by another 5.7% over the next few years, a forecast that is holding steady from our June 2020 report.
• When making decisions on office space, employers rank employee productivity, culture, and collaboration as more important than operational savings.