Workplace Insight

JUNE 19, 2025

According to the Focus Forward study, which draws on data from 132 senior corporate real estate (CRE) leaders worldwide, the majority of organisations have already reduced their real estate footprint – but the pace of office downsizing is slowing.

Real Estate

Office Snapshots

OCTOBER 31, 2024

The project, designed by Mimaristudio in line with the company’s Real Estate & Facility Management leadership and the company’s global design criterias, marks another implementation of the hybrid working model in the new office located in the LEED Gold-certified Nidakule Batı building in Istanbul.

Real Estate

fm:systems

JULY 10, 2025

Workplace Strategy as a Service: Rethinking How Organizations Plan for Change In this webinar, learn how agile, data-driven workplace strategies like WSaaS help organizations adapt to evolving workforce needs and space utilization trends.

Planning

fm:systems

JULY 10, 2025

Workplace Strategy as a Service: Rethinking How Organizations Plan for Change In this webinar, learn how agile, data-driven workplace strategies like WSaaS help organizations adapt to evolving workforce needs and space utilization trends.

Planning

Workplace Insight

JANUARY 3, 2025

A fifth of workers cited a shortage of desks and facilities among their top three reasons for avoiding the office, according to a survey by real estate consultancy Remit Consulting. Workers are resisting the so-called return to office due to a lack of desk space, following widespread reductions by companies in the wake of Covid.

Real Estate

Workplace Insight

AUGUST 8, 2025

The UK’s commercial property market is showing sharply contrasting performances across key sectors at the midpoint of 2025, according to CBRE’s latest UK Real Estate Market Outlook Mid-Year Review. Relaxed planning rules, including in some green belt areas, are enabling new developments to proceed.

Reporting

Office Snapshots

JULY 1, 2025

Situated in their own asset, real estate company, Abacus Property Group, required a total re-design and relocation of its Sydney head office. With a challenging U-shaped floorplate, a triangular, 45-degree planning concept was devised to maximise floorplate openness, and biophilic screening has been used to delineate areas.

Real Estate

Launch Work Places

JUNE 11, 2025

It’s a simple way to plan for growth without overcommitting. Whether it’s a real estate advisor, attorney, or industry mentor, getting another perspective can help you uncover hidden fees, avoid bad-fit spaces, and negotiate more confidently. If you downsize, will you still be paying for unused space?

Flexibility

Workplace Insight

JULY 14, 2025

In commercial real estate, demand is being driven as much by market forces and tenant expectations as by policy. Public incentives, planning policies that prioritise reuse, and financial tools such as energy performance contracts and green bonds are helping bridge the gap. Cities like Washington, D.C.

Real Estate

Workplace Insight

JULY 8, 2025

Many firms are relocating functions such as IT, HR, sales, customer support, and business development to these cities as part of broader real estate strategies. JLL’s Future of Work survey indicates that 55 percent of financial services organisations plan to increase investment in central business district locations by 2030.

Real Estate

BMT Office Administration

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

CLM proves very useful in manufacturing, real estate, finance, healthcare, and technology. Will this platform integrate seamlessly with our existing systems, such as CRM (customer relation management) and ERP (enterprise resource planning)? Is this contract lifecycle management software intuitive and user-friendly?

Software

Success

JULY 18, 2025

At Edwards Asset Management, he helps clients build thoughtful, long-lasting legacies—not just financial plans. SUCCESS+ : What exactly is wealth succession planning, and how is it different from just writing a will or naming beneficiaries? S+ : At what point should someone start thinking about succession planning?

Real Estate

Work Life

JULY 23, 2025

Black Capitalism is a unique form of fugitive planning The undercommons is a term coined by theorists Fred Moten and Stefano Harney and used to describe a subversive space wherein marginalized groups within an institution resist and challenge power structures without fighting for inclusion or attempting to reform these institutions.

Purchasing

Ruby

AUGUST 5, 2025

Real estate: Podio plus Ruby A potential homebuyer sees a listing and calls the number on the sign. Zapier detects a new event: depending on your plan, Zapier checks Ruby’s system every 1 to 15 minutes. That means no more scribbled notes, missed appointments, or forgotten follow-ups.

Small Business

All Work

JANUARY 24, 2023

Spectorgroup, a global architecture, interior design, and master planning firm uses visioning workshops and ecosystem mapping to determine how — and how often — employees work in the office. While a function-first approach might work for some, other companies adopt a more culture-first mindset when it comes to workplace planning.

Real Estate

Workplace Insight

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Commercial real estate occupiers are willing to put their money where the tech is, according to new polling from JLL’s 2023 Global Real Estate Technology Survey. In fact, real estate tech budgets are set to grow faster than investments in?

Real Estate

All Work

MAY 21, 2021

That’s why you need to quickly master two critical competencies: Evaluating your real estate portfolio and utilization to determine the “right size” of your real estate footprint as workplaces reopen. This exercise often reveals some surprising information about your workspaces. Step 3: Forecast future requirements.

Real Estate

Work Life

AUGUST 22, 2024

According to experts, however, the current RTO wave is at least partly due to an economy-wide power struggle, not to mention real estate costs. Real estate realities Levine suggests that the desire to establish a collaborative company culture, and optimize real estate costs, is driving the current RTO push. “A

Real Estate

Workplace Insight

MAY 12, 2024

Seven real estate industry associations have announced a new taskforce to develop a comprehensive carbon pricing strategy for the sector that takes a value chain perspective and enables pricing to be incorporated into investment decision making and accelerate its adoption.

Real Estate

All Work

AUGUST 8, 2022

Ryan Anderson of MillerKnoll explores the transformation of the workplace and why the processes associated with planning and managing spaces need to be fundamentally redesign. For most organizations, their historic investment in corporate real estate was only second to their investment in people. Image courtesy of MillerKnoll.

Real Estate

Ask a Manager

JUNE 13, 2025

Your best bet is to start with an attorney that specializes in real estate and title. My sibling’s household is planning to build a three-flat in Chicago, and they are considering a condo, a co-op, or a deed that explicitly assigns percentage of ownership to each individual.

Real Estate

All Work

APRIL 28, 2023

That means not just tracking the carbon footprint of a company’s real estate assets, but emissions across the entire supply chain. The EU has even stricter reporting requirements and any company working or planning to work in Europe is already tracking this data.

Real Estate

All Work

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Often an event in the business cycle—most likely a lease expiration or other real estate deadline—will create the demand to better understand the organization’s physical needs. This first step of starting with a real estate broker may often be the first of many decisions made through an arduous request for proposal process.

Flexibility

McKensey

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

A real estate company committed to reaching net zero took a more efficient—and pioneering—approach.

Real Estate

fm:systems

JANUARY 16, 2024

Unlock hybrid workspace advantage in 2024 with our corporate real estate optimization resources. New Year, New Workplace: Plan for Hybrid Workplace Success with Key Resources

Real Estate

All Work

APRIL 23, 2021

Never before in modern history has the business community, and more specifically commercial real estate, experienced such profound and dramatic change. What are the long-term, post pandemic implications on real estate decisions made today? or “What if everyone shows up on the same day?”. Create an Experience.

Real Estate

Insperity

APRIL 8, 2021

Reduced real estate costs – Fewer employees working in a single, central space require smaller physical footprints. This can lead to savings on expensive commercial real estate and reduce overhead costs.

Real Estate

Office Space

JUNE 8, 2023

Workspace planning is becoming increasingly important and increasingly challenging as work becomes more flexible and hybrid. In this article, we explore tangible ways you can improve your workspace planning process to overcome the biggest challenges of hybrid working. Watch it here. 2023 is really about a growth mindset. ”

Planning

fm:systems

MARCH 13, 2025

Real estate portfolio management software is a powerful tool that optimizes asset tracking, financial management, and compliance adherence. Real Estate Portfolio Management Software Guide

Real Estate

Insperity

JANUARY 5, 2023

Another surprising benefit of EAPs is that they can help employees plan activities outside of work based on location, interests and needs. Planning extracurricular activities, lessons or camps for children. A representative from the EAP will perform the research and send them suggestions. Help finding an event venue.

Legal

Success

JULY 30, 2021

Whatever you’re selling—whether it’s real estate, consulting services or your manual labor—get clear on who you really want to do it for, and why. The post 10 Quick Tips to Help You Slow Down, Make a Plan and Push Forward appeared first on SUCCESS. It starts with kindness. Read: Beyond First Impressions. SET YOUR SIGHTS.

Planning

All Work

APRIL 15, 2022

Following are three questions that can help companies approach their RTO plans with fresh metrics and data not only help answer, but answer faster, and with more predictable outcomes: 1. Amid this era of uncertainty, predictability can often feel unattainable. But it’s right there in the data, when you ask smart questions.

Real Estate

All Work

APRIL 28, 2022

Recently commissioned European research combined the results of an in-depth survey of 3,000 office workers, 2,750 employers in leadership roles at organisations with 50+ employees, and interviews with global senior leaders in Real Estate, HR and Operations. Prior to the pandemic, the traditional workplace was accepted as it was.

Real Estate

All Work

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Knowing how many seats and what square footage will be needed are the questions many real estate professionals have been trying to wrap their arms around. Workplaces have traditionally been planned around the total number of offices and workstations needed based on current headcounts and projected business growth.

Real Estate

All Work

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

A 20-foot-wide living wall breathes life into Aspen Ridge’s open plan workspace. The pandemic resulted in the biggest shake-up in commercial real estate in recent memory. Even still, it might be difficult for light to penetrate into the core of an open plan workspace. Photography credit – Tom Arban.

Real Estate

All Work

JULY 17, 2024

Hybrid and remote work have proven that physical office space isn’t the only place work can get done, and 63% of high-growth companies plan to continue with a hybrid work strategy. Understand The Organization’s DNA At the end of the day, there’s one thing employees want leaders to do when planning their new and improved workplace: ask them.

Real Estate

Insperity

JUNE 27, 2017

For instance, ad agencies and real estate firms rely on full-blown teamwork to launch a successful creative campaign or to sell a house. Poorly planned or ill-structured collaboration can impede productivity and be highly frustrating, especially to your best workers. Plan for collaborative success.

Decision Making