Coffee With: Melissa Ansley, JLL Flex Occupier Solutions Lead in the Americas We know flex space is changing fast. For those who’ve been in the industry for a decade or more, like Melissa Ansley at JLL, there has never been a more exciting time. Before Ansley came aboard as JLL’s Flex Occupier Solutions Lead in…
Now, companies can offer their employees the benefit of choosing from thousands of on-demand workspaces in a branded company experience. Upflex CEO Christophe Garnier discusses Upflex’s new feature, White Label. In a recent survey by Zoom, more than two thirds of U.S. companies said they were considering a flex workspace model. In other countries, that percentage…
The American metropolis isn’t dead; but thanks to dispersed office workers, it’s being entirely redefined. Before 2020, remote work was growing, but only one in 10 U.S. workers — or fewer — worked remotely full-time. The latest polls say now, that figure is more like one in four — including most workers at enterprise companies like…
Upflex CEO Christophe Garnier shares insight on how to beat the hyperflex learning curve. Before the COVID-19 pandemic, the percentage of flex space in the average Fortune 2000 company’s corporate real estate portfolio was 2 to 3%. As of 2019, leading brokerages were estimating that, within the decade, that percentage would increase by a factor…
It’s 2021, and work is shifting away from social-amenity-rich, centralized physical offices — and fast. Here’s what employees are looking for in workspaces now. What defines an ideal modern workspace? In the past, companies put a lot of stock in the physical office. The tech and start-up boom introduced the now-ubiquitous open-plan office, designed to…
Coffee With: Karen McClellan, Head of Real Estate at Schneider Electric This enterprise company wanted for years to implement a vision of the ‘Workplace of the Future.’ In our “Coffee With the Experts” interview series, Karen McClellan shares how, in the tumult of 2020, Colliers helped them take the leap. The biggest companies can be…
Coffee With: Andre Jacquet, Chief Commercial Officer at Rocean In our “Coffee With the Experts” interview series, CCO of water transformation tech company Rocean Andre Jacquet shares how the flex workspace platform helped this young company thrive, and how his experiences at Dyson and Microsoft tipped him off that the hyperflex model wasn’t just for…
By this point in the COVID-19 pandemic, my fellow CEOs know well: At the core of employee happiness is one consistently shared value: flexibility. Parents need flexible hours. Talent who are immunocompromised need flexible work geography, determining their workspace according to their level of risk. Employees who found it hard to focus in a shared…
Coffee With: Vincent Lottefier, Upflex Chief Strategy Officer JLL veteran and newly appointed Upflex Chief Strategy Officer Vincent Lottefier talks in our “Coffee With the Experts” interview series about “hyperflex” space, obstacles to adoption, and having 76 places he can work on any given day. Enterprise companies’ real estate portfolios are expected to become more…
Our real estate company offered a niche service intended for start-ups. Instead of shutting us down, the pandemic pushed us into a new market: Fortune 500 enterprise clients. Here’s why I think we need more players in the space. Eight months ago, it was hard to imagine what the office of the future might look…
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