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?
Change is always being felt – being driven by business or requiring business to adopt. Today, there are five changes being seen globally, expected to have significant impact. These trends – called megatrends (as their influence will be felt by everyone globally) – are health, urbanization, mobility, technology and shifting economic power. Large organizations with […]
The workplace has changed. Employees no longer work from 9-5 and never really sat in the same workstation all day long, but they definitely don’t now. The shift in workplace practice presents two challenges for workplace managers – how to create a workplace delivering the experience employees expect and how to redeploy workspace matching contemporary […]
Preceding other common holiday hallmarks – Halloween, Thanksgiving, Black Friday and Christmas – cough and cold season has arrived, heralding a change of season! I know this because I am currently suffering. And, it’s got me thinking about the problem: how many people are affected across the cough and cold season? How much does cough […]
In light of a cluster of large outsourcing organizations recently collapsing in the UK, the UK’s Institute for Government has investigated this practice’s value. The report, ‘Government outsourcing What has worked and what needs reform?’, was released September 2019. The report examined outsourcing success categorically with financing and some people-facing services failing evaluation. IT has […]
Emergent Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology is finding both early adopter excitement and also resistance from critics. Champions are pushing capabilities and adopting the technology to create efficiencies through Corporate Real Estate (CRES). AI is increasingly being adopted by CRES as it can significantly improve efficiencies – creating better, more comfortable work environments, saving organizations money […]
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 […]