Latest Articles: Office of the Future

The pandemic and the pursuit for office buildings to become more sustainable, coupled with businesses telling their employees to return to the office, are forcing companies and commercial office owners to rethink how to improve the workplace. As work patterns have changed, it’s now time to take a...

What is “the new normal” when it comes to post-pandemic work locations in the corporate world? During the course of the pandemic, many employers utilized hybrid or full work-from-home environments. Post pandemic, some companies have leveraged low occupancy levels and benefited from savings of a...

The service, which followed a successful trial, allows customers to place orders online and collect from over 1,000 stores, with customers having a 10-day window for collection and no processing fees to be applied for orders over £10. At the time of launch, Card Factory’s chief digital officer Sam...

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With companies increasingly moving to hybrid work schedules or giving up on employees coming back altogether, office vacancy rates continue to rise exponentially across the country. Researchers at New York and Columbia universities report that the return to the office may actually “plateau” at 50%...

1. Given the rapid adoption and acceleration of digitalisation, how are you harnessing the power of people analytics to drive a successful organisational transformation? 2. What is the biggest change you have seen happen in the last three years in the field of people analytics? 3. People analytics...

Dr. Jeremy Patt and Dr. Katerina Kryst join Summit Nanotech's growing executive team to support the commercialization of its denaLi™ Direct Lithium Extraction (DLE) technology CALGARY, AB, May 31, 2023 /PRNewswire/ - Summit Nanotech ("Summit"), a leader in sustainable lithium extraction...

The DNA of work has changed—or, rather, the point of engagement. A deadly virus sent us scrambling for safety, and jobs that didn’t seem well suited for working from home (WFH) suddenly were happening in just that way—and more successfully than anticipated. Eventually, returning to the office...

about the role of the traditional office, but the workplace transformation that it triggered also raised the broader issue of physical spaces in general. What will the places in which people live and work look like a few years down the road? With the , leaders may need to take a new look at office...

Tuesday, 23 May, 2023Experience Your Economic Times Newspaper, The Digital Way!Read Complete Print Edition »Front PagePure PoliticsCompaniesET MarketsMoreFate of ₹2k Notes After Sept? Call Closer to Deadline: DasReserve Bank of India (RBI) governor Shaktikanta Das on Monday said authorities will...

Tishman Speyer is betting on amenities, programming and shared spaces as “part of the future of office” by going global with its ZO program, giving clients access to lounges and clubhouses at 41 locations worldwide, including four in San Francisco. The program, which provides members with both a...

June 01, 2023 -- Proven expert in healthcare program development and expansion, Sare tapped by California Career Institute CEO/Co-Founder, Dr. Rafat Qahoush, for key leadership position. Sare to implement

JPMorgan Chase is constructing a new, state-of-the art, 60-story global headquarters at 270 Park Avenue in Midtown Manhattan. McKinsey partner John Means sat down with David Arena, JPMC’s head of global real estate, to discuss the new tower, as well as the company’s Workplace Lab, where it is...

AP: I believe the hybrid model will only gain traction over the next 5 years. Less time spent commuting can result in much more time utilized for actual work, along with an increase to work/life balance leading to happier employees. A fully in-office model implies inflexibility and lack of...

The famous quote by Mahatma Gandhi — “The world has enough for everyone's need, but not enough for everyone's greed” — aptly reflected business sentiments prevalent decades ago. At that time, the sole intention was to fulfil traditional objectives such as grow the top and bottom line, meet...

One day Vanessa Ariel received a call from the gentleman she was dating who asked what she thought about an idea for a website that would ship your favorite food from anywhere across the country to your door whenever you wanted it. She loved the scenario and exclaimed it sounded like a...

Remy Raisner is the Founder & CEO of The Raisner Group, a Brooklyn-focused Real Estate Private Equity company. In New York at the end of January 2023, 52% of Manhattan office workers were in the office on an average weekday. This is a jaw-droppingly low number for the most vibrant city in the...

The past three years upended assumptions about where work could and should be done. Now, as companies consider their long-term plans, how should office buildings figure in? This week on What It Means, Vice President, Research Director James McQuivey and Vice President, Principal Analyst J. P....

Office vacancies remain well above prepandemic levels, hitting 15% globally according to real estate and investment manager JLL. In some cities the numbers are far higher. San Francisco, for example, has topped 25% vacancy. Is this the ringing of the death knell for the office, or can a case be...

As the world continues to adapt to the ongoing pandemic and shift towards remote work, the future of office workstations is evolving rapidly. New technologies and innovations are emerging to support the changing needs of workers and organizations. In this article, we'll explore the trends and...

More harassment. As if the seemigly unending stream of pop-ups and notices and "Look here!" isn't bad enough. Now we'll have to deal with a shitfaced successor to Clippy. It's almost as if the people in Microsoft have no clue what they're doing and keep throwing shit against the wall to see what...

The global fashion industry is no stranger to the unpredictability of our time. With a looming recession and inflation-driven expense hikes, companies have no choice but to resort to tight cost control measures. Whilst it might seem counterintuitive to invest in specialised industry tools during...

Of all the professions at risk from the rise of artificial intelligence, I’d suggest futurists have most to fear. Until now it was easy to be a futurist. You look at a few trends, tap into your imagination and extrapolate. And 20 years down the line, when nothing you predicted comes to fruition,...

Microsoft is announcing a new AI-powered Copilot for its Microsoft 365 apps and services today, designed to assist people with generating documents, emails, presentations, and much more. The Copilot, powered by GPT-4 from OpenAI, will sit alongside Microsoft 365 apps much like an assistant...

CAMBRIDGE, England--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Database DevOps company Redgate Software has made a permanent move towards hybrid working by cutting the ribbon on its new UK headquarters in Cambridge. Flexible workspace options are now the norm, as are multiple and varied collaboration areas, a major...

A live stream of Microsoft's The Future of Work with AI event, where the company is expected to demo adding OpenAI's tech to its 365 and Office apps — Humans are hard-wired to dream, to create, to innovate. But today, we spend too much time consumed by the drudgery of work, on tasks that zap...

BENGALURU, India & CHESTERBROOK, Pa.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Boomi™, the intelligent connectivity and automation leader, today announced the opening of a new office in Bengaluru, India. As Boomi welcomes its current local team members to the space, the company also intends to more than double its...

With an affordability and housing crisis facing the city, Mayor Eric Adams is putting his hopes into the idea of converting empty office space into housing. “I can’t help but to reflect just on the next generation and how the conversation on living is shifting,” said Adams. On Monday, the mayor...

The physician office laboratory (POL) is usually not broken out in market research reports covering the medical device and diagnostic industry. Numbers are often simply grouped in with hospital and service lab sales. But for marketing strategy, knowing where diagnostic tests occur is as important...

The scandal, currently subject to a statutory judicial inquiry, has blighted scores of lives. Computer error, corporate incompetence, and potentially problematic lawyering led to hundreds of sub-postmasters and mistresses being falsely accused and sometimes convicted of criminal offences. Many...