The Office Ecosystem
The Office ecosystem as we know it is effectively broken. mandates are no mandates. People returning to the office won’t work because the ecosystem surrounding the office, in most cases no longer exists. People don’t think of offices as being part of an...
Dictating Social Norms
The remote work debate is happening at the same time as a lot of other debates around social norms. Some of these include what books can be in classrooms and libraries, rights to medication for abortions, rights for LBGTQ individuals, affirmative action, right to have...
Remote Work: Fire Drill or Earthquake?
What describes the last 3 years of remote work and your company’s return to the office better? Fire drill or earthquake. According to the World Health Organization, there have been 6,950,655 deaths from Covid-19 not including Turkmenistan and North...
Stop Calling it Office Space
According to McKinsey Global Institute, the value of “office space” is destined to fall by 800 billion dollars by 2030. Notice they didn’t say commercial real estate. And would it be different if they did? I think so. Value often changes in how...
Office Perks
What office perks would bring you back to the office? Vornado Realty Trust is spending $1.2B to renovate two buildings near Penn Station that will have the “wow” factor. They will have pickleball courts, restaurants, coworking spaces, and more. Workers...
