Corporate Real Estate

Remote and hybrid work models are causing sweeping changes in office occupancy utilization rates. The Wall Street Journal recently noted a decrease in office space utilization from last year, which is having a significant impact on the value of commercial real estate. These shifting trends are a...

Recent shifts toward hybrid working models, where more and more employees divide time between working in the corporate office and working remotely, have made it increasingly important for businesses to track, measure, and optimize their corporate workspaces. As the traditional office dynamic...

Office space planning has traditionally meant the intentional configuration of a workspace that carefully considers layout, furniture, and workflow to optimize employee productivity and safety. Since the COVID-19 upended traditional workspace layouts and working models, offices have evolved into...

One million workers are scheduled to Return to Office (RTO) this fall. Industry analysts point to Fall 2023 as the true test of office hybrid plans. CRE leaders require the right data in order to restack or reshape spaces. Workplace Trend Summary Finally, there is consensus. Industry experts...

Key Points Activity-Based Workspaces are meant to encourage and enable specific behaviors for employees who want to gather to whiteboard, workshop, watch a training or eat lunch together. It’s a workplace-design ethos that isn’t new but is now a priority as corporate leaders sweat out RTO rates....

KEY POINTS The Return-to-Office trend seems to have stalled. Many companies are landing on a hybrid work strategy with an average of 2.5 days in a corporate space. Nearly 60% of companies are settled into Hybrid Work Schedules. Despite some companies demanding employees return to offices full...

The latest CBRE research reveals utilization as the top metric Corporate Real Estate (CRE) leaders prioritize when considering portfolio performance. Utilization locked in the top spot for the second consecutive year, landing in front of Cost Per Seat and Seat Density – two drill-down metrics....

There are lots of reasons to love your IWMS – generating detailed work orders, automating preventative maintenance, and seeing portfolio-wide energy use metrics. What is IWMS? Ideally, these systems offer a centralized platform for real estate portfolio management, including infrastructure and...

_JLL Technologies Executive Director and Chief Digital Information Officer_ _Edward Wagoner_ _has a unique view of  COVID-19 reopen strategies through his work at  JLL, the global real estate company with 4.6 billion square feet managed in property and facilities._ _A veteran real estate CIO and...

As the effects of the COVID19 pandemic continue to be felt deep into 2021, companies are still wrestling with the problems of reopening. Thousands of companies abandoned their physical offices in the first couple of months of the pandemic, despite many thinking about their office reopening in a...

Corporations are facing the twofold challenge of having to reshape both physical offices and employee attitudes as they work to design return-to-office plans and satisfy a reluctant workforce. The challenge for the CRE industry is real – how to design for flexibility without adding more premium...