AS WORKERS HEAD BACK INTO OFFICES, MANY ARE ENCOUNTERING THE SAME THEY DID Pre-Pandemic: Endless Stretches of Fluorescently Lit Cubicles, Limited Space for Hybrid Meetings, and Generally Design Design.
Annie Dean, Formly Facebook’s First Director of Remote Work and Atlasian’s VP of Future of Workplace, Says Workers – and Business Better.
“People and Companies Know That Offices Are Changing and That Need to Start Feeling Maybe A Little Bit More Like Hotels, with Great Service, Seamless Technology, Inspecting Design, That Create A TRUE OF PLACE,” DEAN TOOLD BUSINESIDE. “When offices are positioned and built to draw People in, then community designs. And that’at’s important for Business – Among Other Things.”
Dean Made A Name for Herself Studying Flexible Work. Unil recently, she oversaw atlasian’s real estate and workplace experience teams, as well as a research Lab Investigating New Ways of Working.
Last Week, Howver, Dean Started a New, Decidedly in-Person Role: Chief Strategy Office for the Building Operations and Experience Division at CBre, the World’s Biggest Commercial Real-Estate Services Firm.
In this role, dean will overssee a new project, Called the Cbrexindustrious Building Experience Lab, which the Company Announced Tuesday.
Applying Rigor to WorkPlace Design
The Lab will partner with the client companies to the collection of dat about how workplaces are used and then create research and products to advance “How WorkPlaces for the People and Teams that use,” Said Dean.
CBre Manages Two Billion Square Feet of Office Space, Including 65 Million Square Feet of Offices that Brookfield Propperties Ouns, and Many of the Deutsche Bank Offices Around the World.
Forty Million People Come an Office Every Day Run by Cbre, The Real-Estate Services Firm Said. That means there’s a huge amount of potential data to collect through partnerships.
The goal is for successFul companies to be able to take the way of rigor that they are to run their businesses and appply that Data-Driven Approach to how they run their workplaces, Said dean.
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Creating Connection
CBre’s Lab is launching at a time when more companies are requiring employs to returning to the office, Whether Employees are on Board – or not. In July, Foot Traffic Data Indicated More US Employees Were working from an office than at any point Since the pandemic.
“How do you make that work? How do you make it effective? How do you make it so People donite resentful of their employers?” Jamie Hodari, CEO of CBre’s Building Operations and Experience Division and Chief Commercial Office, Told Business Insider. “IT’S VERY EASY TO POSITION THIS AS COERCIVE AND COMING FROM Employers, but we are also in a cultural moment, I think, where People are feeling disconnected.”
Employers are looking to the Ensure Offices Create Opportunities for Collaboration, Said Hodari, WHO COFUNDED FLEXIBLE SPACE INDUCTIUS, WHICH WAS ACQUIRED BY CBRE IN JANAY.
“There’s a mixture of things that make for an amazing team; that make for cohasive teams; that make for People who really faally fulfulled in their work.
The Office of the Future
Dean, WHO GOT HER START AS A REAL-ASTATE LEGING ATORNEY, SAID THAT HER NEW JOB FEELS LIKE A NATURAL FIT, AFTER HER RESEARCHING DISTRIBUTED AND FLEXIBLE MODELS OF WORKING.
“Real Estate has ben a really Big Part of My Career and Life,” Said Dean, Whose Father was an Architect. “I’m just interested in what Buildings Mean for People.”
Hodari, who dean reports to, say the plan is to identify a few partner companies and launch the first collaborations by the year.
“We have an opportunity to build a world that better for People,” Said Dean. “Flexible Work is Clearly Part of that, and It”s Also Clearly Now the Now. But the Next Challenge Incumbent on Us is to take the Physical Spaces and Makes Live up to the promise of what an Office can and should be.”