(Featuring David C. Smith, Americas Head of Occupier Research, Cushman and Wakefield)

COVID forced an experiment at global scale to test productivity and culture in a work-from-home environment. Now that we're a year into the experiment, what's the future of the office sector ecosystem?

https://www.afire.org/podcast/office-space

With the coronavirus pandemic entering into its second year, a lot of occupiers are rethinking their real estate strategies. Investors are trying to find the right way to pivot and find new strategies for value creation in the midst of a large-scale workplace evolution.

As most workers, especially in the US, are not yet allowed or interested in returning to their offices, investors have the opportunity—and the urgency—to build out long-term scenario plans, strategize future decisions and investment philosophies, and understand the current field of options available. Latency in the office sector has opened up the possibility of new forms of thinking that rely on keeping occupiers productive and engaged within the evolving real estate landscape.

David Smith of Cushman and Wakefield provides recent insights on the four emerging, key purposes of office space, including a look at how occupiers are changing their own thinking around office use.