Tag: office

Workplace Workouts

Keeping Fit on the Job

Perhaps you’re spending more time in the office these days and lost your proximity to the gym or other favorite daytime workout location. But did you know that workplaces offer abundant opportunities for maintaining physical fitness? “Just because you have a desk doesn’t mean you have to sit at it for eight hours straight,” according […]

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From Setbacks to Success

Navigating Office Politics

Miscommunication is common in many workplaces and can negatively impact productivity and relationships. Let’s navigate office politics and miscommunications with these best practices and learn how to boost office morale by turning setbacks into success. Common causes of miscommunication are lack of clarity in messages, assumptions, generational or cultural differences and ineffective listening. All of […]

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Wellness Initiatives

Express Employee Appreciation

Employee Appreciation Day is “officially” Friday, March 1, according to the bonus holiday arbiters, but celebrations can be anytime. Let’s explore some initiatives that promote employee well-being and contribute to a healthier, happier workplace at any office. Mindfulness Practices. Employees can incorporate mindfulness techniques and practices into daily routines to reduce stress and enhance well-being. […]

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Lifestyle Offices

Help Retain Top Talent

Since the pandemic, companies have had to adjust to keep their customers returning. For example, movie theaters are finally starting to see box office numbers like in 2019, but how are they getting people out of their comfortable living spaces and coming to the movies? Because viewing options at home are limited, and most need […]

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Semper Fido

Pet-Friendly Workplaces

We have reported on pet-friendly policies for multifamily properties, senior living communities and coworking spaces. So how about traditional offices? Are attitudes about pets in the workplace evolving? As recently as 2015, about 8% of U.S. businesses had pet-friendly policies. While only about 15% of employers let employees bring pets to work six years later, […]

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Return to Office

New normal post-pandemic

“When will it happen?” That question often arises in discussions of employees returning to the office when COVID-19 fully subsides. But as the third anniversary of the pandemic’s onset approaches, that question might be superseded by two others: “Do employers want their employees to return?” and “Do employees want to return?” A Gallup survey in […]

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Tiny Offices

Getting Bigger

You’ve probably heard about tiny homes, which usually range from 100 to 400 square feet and provide affordable alternatives to traditional houses, opportunities for a simplified lifestyle and a potentially smaller carbon footprint. It’s a small but steadily growing part of the residential real estate market. And now, with some companies letting their employees work […]

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New Ways to Work

Emerging in 2022

As workers migrate back to their offices, they’ll enter an environment that’s dramatically more accepting of nontraditional working arrangements than before the pandemic. Most industry observers agree that openness to flexible work arrangements among employers will be the norm. A survey by video messaging platform Loom that found that 90% of workers and managers are […]

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Office Outlook

From CommercialEdge

The September jobs report clearly left something to be desired, adding just 194,000 jobs for the month. However, a brighter point is within that number: Nearly half of all of the jobs added in September were in the office-using sector. And, while many more jobs are needed to rebound to pre-pandemic levels, data from the […]

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Back to the Office

With Yardi Corom

Have you ever heard the phrase, “practice what you preach?” It’s a call for practiced values to align with value statements. At Yardi, we’re in the business of creating software solutions that are so robust and user friendly that even we would use them—and we do. Our latest release, Yardi Corom, makes lease management efficient, […]

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Tenant Experience

COVID Has Changed CRE

“Buildings are the next computing platform.” That’s how Chase Garbarino, CEO of HqO, describes the importance of software and building intelligence as companies seek a safe return to the workplace. Just as books shifted to tablets, music switched from CDs to Pandora and Spotify and taxi service switched to Uber, buildings have transformed from manual […]

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Future-proofing Flex Spaces

Future of Coworking

Better to act than take on the risks of inaction. This was the theme of a recent GWA webinar, in which panelists discussed ways to minimize risk and future-proof a coworking or flexible workspace operation. “The biggest risk is the risk of not doing anything, of not reacting to the market,” said Dan Zakai, co-founder […]

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Commercial Space Management

CoreNet Real Estate Week

The first annual CoreNet Corporate Real Estate Week was a success! The virtual international conference aims to “commemorate, educate, inform, and connect the world to all that our often under-recognized profession does to advance the economy.” More than 40 sessions offered insights and networking to commercial professionals globally. Three sessions educated attendees on the benefits […]

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Reimagining Canadian Office Space

More Flexible + Healthier Space

How is the commercial real estate landscape changing and how do we adapt? How will we apply those learnings to our future as a technology innovator? These questions have been on the mind of the team at Yardi Canada as well as on technology providers worldwide. Commercial asset managers require flexible workspaces and integrated technology […]

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Returning to the Office

With creativity and technology

The past year has been full of challenges from a traditional office perspective. These challenges have come in a series of phases — initially sending employees home for an indefinite amount of time, implementing physical and tech upgrades to safely welcome workers and guests into offices, creating a potential hybrid working model to accommodate distancing […]

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