10.26.2020 - By UCF College of Business
As employees continue to work from home, leases are running out and corporate office space is in jeopardy. Managers around the world have to decide if it's more efficient to keep their offices open, downsize, or go entirely remote. Seven months into this pandemic, the question remains... is working from home really going to stick? How is the commercial real estate industry handling the move to remote work spaces? Can professionals truly replicate the "sense of space" that comes with collaborating in person... from home? And five years from now, what will the typical workday look like?
Featured Guests
Steve Garrity - Vice President, Highwoods Properties
Nick Poole - Managing Director, JLL
Yvonne Baker - Regional Managing Partner, Franklin Street
Bill Moss - Director, Dr. P. Phillips Institute for Research and Education in Real Estate at UCF
Episode Highlights
2:34 - The state of commercial real estate pre-COVID
4:25 - The rise of the open offices
9:19 - How the pandemic is changing office space
12:07 - The importance of "a sense of space" in collaborative work
13:44 - How working from home affects company culture
18:30 - Will companies downsize their offices? Eliminate them entirely?
23:04 - Permanent fixes for temporary problems
25:27 - Will everyone be back in the office in two years?
28:01 - Dean Jarley's final thoughts