Interdisciplinary Center for Healthy Workplaces Director, Dr. Cristina Banks, answers questions aggregated over the last 18 months by a wide array of workplace influencers on behalf of corporate real estate stakeholders. Timely questions - practical and helpful answers.

Discover the current state of recruiting and how tools such as ISS's AI solution can form a bridge to more efficient and inclusive practices. The AI platform is able to interact with applicants in conversational language and has several virtual personas that applicants can select to take them through the recruiting process. See how an AI recruiting assistant can simplify communications between a recruiting team and job candidates while offering a people-centric approach.

Creating a welcoming, inclusive workplace environment has never been more important than it is now. The office has emerged as a destination workers will visit as needed and not on a daily basis. It's crucial that you understand why employees do or do not want to return to the office. Gain key data and anecdotes around the current state of happiness in workplace environments and how to create a more welcoming, inclusive experience on a daily basis moving forward.

It’s often seemingly insignificant things that make the biggest impact on the employee experience — for better and for worse. For example, frequent technology issues that make it difficult to get through a virtual meeting or commuting to the office only to spend the first half an hour searching for an available conference room sound like minor inconveniences. Over time, however, these small frustrations can add up and create discontent in otherwise happy employees. Discover the tools and strategies that will help your hybrid workplace deliver on the expectations of your team!

Implementing a hybrid workplace strategy is appealing to organizations finding the balance between in-office and at-home work. Hybrid offers a lot of flexibility, but it requires you to implement new policies, to reimagine spaces, and manage those spaces in a whole new way. Discover how leveraging the right space planning software can increase employee satisfaction, loyalty, and effectiveness, all while making the jobs of the people responsible for planning and managing that space easier.

The Digital Building Lifecycle is an 11-phase framework that bridges traditionally siloed people, processes, and data with a continuous digital thread that persistently delivers the digital truth of a built environment. Gain a better understanding of the importance of establishing a Digital Building Lifecycle framework to bridge people, processes, and data. Discover what you should do to create your own Digital Building Lifecycle strategy, and how to leverage the cloud as the foundation for your own digital transformation.

Corporate real estate has evolved to encompass so much more than the physical office building. Designing and maintaining productive workspaces these days require corporate real estate managers to be attuned to the behaviors of their workforce. This quest to understand how teams interact and engage with their offices is now just as important to CRE as understanding the physical space, but quantifying behavior is not a simple task. Discover the latest best practices on how to derive meaningful insight from office utilization into impactful business decisions.

While we often hear about the built environment generating 40% of the worlds CO2 emissions, what we don’t hear is that while 28% of those emissions are associated with building operations, 11% is the production of building construction materials, otherwise known as embodied carbon. Just three materials used in much of the building and construction sector – steel, concrete and aluminum, represents 23% of the total world’s CO2. Come join us for a discussion about what embodied carbon is, the impact it has on our net zero future, and what you can do to minimize the impact.

When it comes to real-estate decisions, it's important to understand the overall impacts of physical space and office design on the organization - not just the bottom-line. As companies plan post-COVID workplace decisions in the midst of ongoing uncertainty, it's more important than ever before to shape data-driven, people-centric strategies that drive better business and people outcomes. Join this collaborative session to discuss how Corporate Real-Estate, HR, IT, and Management can leverage data to align their efforts, tailor effective workplace strategies for their unique organizations, and shape a better Future of Work.

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