Higher Education

This summer several high-end tech companies – Google, Apple, Facebook, and Twitter to name a few – have pushed back their return to office dates, or paused until further notice. Google, one of the first companies to completely pull their employees from the workplace at the start of COVID, is...

BOSTON, August 24, 2021 — Lambent, a crowd analysis and intelligence software company, today announced that it has raised $12 million in Series A financing led by Nimble Ventures, with additional new investment from Gutbrain Ventures, PBJ Capital, and Micromanagement Ventures. _Existing investors...

Remember when Real Estate was all about Location, Location, Location? Well, if the recent CoreNet Global North America Summit event held in Chicago earlier this month is any indication, the newest Corporate Real Estate priorities is all about People, People, People. Whether it’s employee...

Award season is in full effect for cinematic icons and for those of us in the business world looking to have a lasting impact on our communities. And there’s no greater honor for those of us at Lambent than watching our female founder be among award recipients this season. Julie Johnson Roberts...

The challenges posed by flexible workspaces are outpacing the space planning tools used for occupancy management. The manual nature of solutions like clicker studies, employee surveys, and manual door counts is time consuming and doesn’t deliver the insights space planners need to get ahead of...

Strategic Space Planning teams in higher education are increasingly pressured to help design flexible, dynamic spaces to meet the needs of a changing workforce, and a student population in search of nontraditional learning options. “One of the things that I think a lot of universities and maybe...

It’s viral, it’s the latest work trend, and it’s called Quiet Quitting. It is the idea of refusing to work overtime and not taking calls after work. Quiet Quitting has many workers rethinking the value of their jobs and the time and attention they assign to them. This trending topic is generating...

Before COVID-19, facilities managers were already working in two worlds, combining a nuts-and-bolts understanding of building operations with business acumen and strategic vision. Today Facilities Managers, and those with more senior titles like the Director of Facilities and Operations, are...

_“Keeping people safe where they work and play” –_ That slogan drew me to apply for a software engineering internship at Lambent, and the same slogan greeted me upon my arrival to the office for my interview. Now, eight months later, I can confidently say that Lambent lives up to that mission....

Workplace distancing. Crowd density. Occupancy, vacancy, capacity.  Welcome to the new language of reopening campuses and venues around the globe. Whether it’s pro sports venues, college stadiums, campus libraries or office buildings, dedicated reopen task forces are hard at work understanding...

_Morgan Mosher is senior principal at_ _T3 Advisors_ _, the global real estate and workplace solutions company focused on technology and life sciences tenants. Recently Mosher published a list of_ _Critical Questions to Ask Your Landlord_ _to help prepare clients for reopening offices and...

_Michael Gabriel_ _is a former EVP & CIO at HBO—you can thank him for creating and executing HBO GO—and  a partner at_ _Fortium Partners LP_ _, a provider of technology leadership services._ _Gabriel is also on the Society for Information Management (SIM) National management team and is a Board...