Workplace

White Collar Employment

Following last week’s CREview on office space, one reader noted there was no reference to white collar employment. Ask a young person about white collar employment and the first reaction may be, “no one wears white collars anymore”. They do, just not in the numbers when...

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How Much Office Space?

The question on the lips of the CRE industry is – how much office space does an office tenant actually need? Well, it depends. It is almost impossible to answer the question in a generic sense because there are so many determining factors, and it depends...

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Fitting Suites

Dr Nigel Oseland is a Chartered (Environmental) Psychologist whose speciality is workplace strategy, design briefing, change management, research, and post-occupancy evaluation. He is a global leader in this field and presented at a CoreNet Global event last week. It was a great event and got...

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What’s Shaping the Future of Work?

Last week we attended Spaceful’s event at the Museum of Contemporary Art; Unlimited: an Exploration of Future Workplace Innovation. It was a great event from every perspective, the venue, the vibe of the space, the hosts, the Exhibition Centre for exhibitors, the guest speaker, the...

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The Co-Working Climate

The original serviced office operators were successful in providing small professionally run office “units” for customers, from small self-employed entities to global corporations. A common thing in the 1980’s was its use by global entities needing a small branch office or beachhead in a particular market. In those...

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Testing The 7 Minute Walk

We recently highlighted Propella.ai’s isochrone – the 7-minute walk. This catchment area represents the likely maximum distance that workers will commonly walk from their office for most of their daily needs such as lunch, convenience items and personal services. Naturally, the shape, size, and topography...

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7 Minute Walk

Recently we caught up with Callan Cameron, Director, and Founder at Propella.ai. We love their human centric approach to data, such as determining that the typical retail catchment area for a CBD building is roughly a 7-minute walk in any direction. It’s called an “isochrone’,...

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Are Fitted Suites So Fitting?

“Spec”, “as new”, “retrofitted”, “existing”, “partial”, “ready-to-occupy”, “move-in ready”, …. fitout. Anyone involved in the CRE office market at the moment is bombarding or bombarded with spec fitouts (brand new) or existing fitouts (not brand new). All are “fitted” suites. There are many really good quality...

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Where Are We At: Occupancy Levels

What is the difference between office space occupancy and office space utilisation? In essence one is used by the supply side of the office equation (Lessors), and the other is used by the demand side of the equation (Lessees). We look at “occupancy”. Here is an...

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