The Under-Utilized Tenant Representative

NOTE: This post applies more to small and mid-sized businesses than for large enterprises with in-house real estate and facilities employees.
Since I transitioned into commercial real estate, I have served as a tenant representative for thirteen clients across eighteen active or completed transactions.  About one-third of these deals have come from existing corporate clients, while [...]

Germ warfare

Ok, so this post isn’t about fighting with germs, but rather fighting against them.  A recent Crain’s Chicago Business article on germophobes set me to thinking.  I’m curious how much office productivity is lost by excessive concern or fear of germs.  Although we have seen some major advancements in office and restroom automation, I have noticed [...]

Five office trends to keep you at the front of the curve

I always enjoy when a writer has good organizational skills, especially when they are writing about the organization of your organization.  Ted Heisler, Principal of Interior Architecture and Design at Ware Malcomb, contributed a well-planned essay for The Leader entitled Innovating the Workplace through Design: Implementing Trends that Transcend.  Heisler divided the article into two [...]

Better living through efficiency - reducing space to increase happiness

Who would believe that you could save money AND increase morale?  Although this article (Smaller Workspaces, Better Workspaces) is spread across five pages, the essential lesson is that strategic planning and out-of-the-box thinking can result in $1 million in savings over 10 years and simultaneously attain substantial morale boosts among office workers.  One workstation, Allsteel’s [...]

Latest issue of CoreNet Global’s The Leader is posted

The Leader, CoreNet Global’s magazine dedicated to corporate real estate strategy, has gone live with the November/December issue.  This bimonthly magazine is once again chock full of case studies, performance analyses and other goodies for the corporate real estate director or consultant.  Over the course of the next week, I will be perusing the articles [...]