Facilities and Workplaces change and evolve. As they do, Corporate Real Estate (CRE) practitioners – operational and strategic teams – will have uncertainty on the best path for them to navigate.
New methodologies affect work space deployment, affecting space standards in a contemporary workplaces. As work places embrace more flexible approaches to work, it’s important for organizations to ask what they’re expecting to gain by going flexible. Is agile, unassigned working really the best approach for teams? What are the known strengths and weaknesses of this and other approaches?
What are smart buildings and what will they do for my organization? What is the best method of capturing utilization information? How important is it to monitor environmental conditions and what’s impacted (i.e. employee well being/ productivity, asset conditioning, resource wastage)?
How do I maintain consistency across buildings/ regions maintaining consistency across appearance and feel and data management and process? What is the impact of data quality on trust levels, costings and planning?
With the increasing shift towards flexible and agile working, incorporating ‘as space is being used’ metrics will enable significant operational efficiencies and enhance the user experience through facilities. Corporate Real Estate (CRES) Teams can gain efficiencies leveraging trend analysis and real time occupancy and utilization metrics to restrict access to space reducing excess operational costs […]
For several key reasons, organizations need to achieve consistency – communicating identity and achieving efficiency and cost-effectiveness. Within Corporate Real Estate (CRES) there are a number of frameworks that can be employed to achieve consistency across a property portfolio, including space standards. Not having, or inconsistent application of, space standards makes it difficult for CRES […]
Meeting rooms. Desks. Employees use them both and they’re both a part of workplace design for employees to do their jobs. So, why not take a macro view and understand occupancy and utilization levels at the floor plate level? Well, for two reasons. One, meeting rooms/ spaces are not the same thing as workstations. They […]
The UK is close to making flexible working law. In support of greater choice and freedom for employees, UK lawmakers want workers to have better work/ life balance whatever stage of life they are in. Currently, for UK-based employees to be granted flexible working status they must work for the same employer continuously for a […]
Corporate Real Estate has always relied on data to make informed decisions on how to manage portfolios. With the introduction of technology that better tracks how employees move through space, new metrics have emerged providing CRES Teams deeper insight into space usage. Sensor technology enables constant data capture through spaces. Clearer space usage insight impacts […]
Space and people CRES data impacts resourcing, space planning, an employee’s workplace experience and the organization’s reputation. Poor data quality destroys business value. According to Gartner, organizations blame poor quality data for annual losses equaling an average of $15 million. Accurately capturing and managing CRES data is key to understanding how the built environment is […]
CRES has changed. The big box model of fixed, uniform workspaces housing employees from 9-5 is being replaced by a more dynamic world of work. Employees are now able to move through their days autonomously working from their own devices, wherever they want. This fundamental shift reflects both social change and the evolution of smarter […]
A recent article from Jim Purcell examined the causes and solutions to broken company cultures and the impact on employees. Jim’s piece opened, ‘Nothing determines business success (or failure) more than workplace culture.’ Problem A company’s culture impacts operations, employee wellbeing, productivity and overall profitability. Yet, employee well-being across America is at an all-time low. […]
The five-day work week was invented in the 19th century to suit the demands of factory work. Before that, tenanted farmers worked 6 days. However, a lot has changed and it may be time to reassess the way we work, identifying solutions more in-line with current needs. Are we winding down the work week as jobs […]
It’s true, organizations America wide are spending an average of $3.6 million annually on providing a better workplace experience, yet employees aren’t happier or more productive after all that money is spent. And, it’s because of one fundamental flaw in planning how to spend all that money – Facility Managers are not asking employees what […]