Blog Posts

Oct. 3, 2023

Your Workplace Guest Processes are Broken!

… and why now is the time to fix them! The guest sign in experience is often the first physical experience your customers, your partners and your prospective employees have with your organization. And for this reason alone, I feel it’s…

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Sept. 25, 2023

Are Meeting Room Panels worth the Expense?

Luxury Item or Imperative Tool for Room Reservation Success? Meeting Room Panels have often been considered a luxury item by many organizations, a piece of nice to have hardware that makes the office ‘look’ hi-tech but offered little ta…

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Sept. 18, 2023

5 Pitfalls to Avoid when Creating a Smart Workplace

Get your smart workplace program off on the right foot! I bet you’ve got a long list of Proptech companies calling you up telling you they have the exact product, tool or technology to do what you need in your workplace or office portfolio. …

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Sept. 5, 2023

How to Measure Workplace Occupancy

There are very few things that drive me a little crazier right now than all the talk of Workplace Occupancy, Utilization, Attendance, Capacity and most of all, how both the media, and the industry, seem to be using them all interchangeably. (Ok end …

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Aug. 1, 2023

The Difference between Smart Buildings and Smart Workplaces

Smart Buildings, Smart Workplaces, Digital Twins, Offices of the Future… these are all buzzwords we hear every day and are often used interchangeably. In this episode of Creating Smarter Spaces, I discussed the differences between Smart Buil…

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July 18, 2023

Two approaches to building a Smart Office

So you want to take some solid steps towards making your workplace portfolio smarter, but there are so many products on the market, and you’ve got so many spaces, trying to work out where to start is daunting? These approaches will help you c…

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April 17, 2023

Why Data Is King When Driving Building Efficiencies

Using data to improve building operations and enhance employee productivity There is a lot of concentration on the efficiency of buildings themselves from an operational and sustainability perspective, and rightly so, with the built environment bei…

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April 11, 2023

How to get your Employees back to the Office

Three key components you need to ensure success. The one thing I get asked by every client who visits us at #AccentureNYC is: “How have you been so successful at getting this many people into the office?” They ask that question an…

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March 30, 2023

The Truth About the Office and Why Your People are Resisting Return

5 things people hated about the office to begin with Many organizations are focused on making the office the place people want to come back to and both the way they work as well as how they work since leaving has changed. But while we ar…

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Jan. 18, 2023

We Don’t Talk about WeWork, but Why Not?

For the few major things it got wrong, let’s not lose sight of some it got very, very right. Not too many years ago, WeWork was the darling of the Wall St., and many might say, the global Corporate Real Estate industry. But their fa…

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