July 22, 2024 The return-to-office debate is settled: Offices are busier than ever A new “office busyness index” shows growing usage, even on Mondays. BY Nate Berg Offices around the country are slowly but steadily seeing workers return. According to a new set of monthly office occupancy data, offices are increasingly busy, with “busyness” up in … Continue reading The return-to-office debate is settled: Offices are busier than ever
July 02, 2024 Union sues Philadelphia over return to offices full-time mandate The union, which represents 6,000 administrative and supervisory employees, also filed an unfair-practices complaint with the Pennsylvania Labor Relations Board. BY Associated Press A union that represents thousands of Philadelphia city employees asked a judge Tuesday to block Mayor Cherelle Parker’s requirement that they … Continue reading Union sues Philadelphia over return to offices full-time mandate
By Nate Berg Calgary was ahead of the curve, but the curve was heading downward. Long before the pandemic locked down cities and drained workers from downtowns, Calgary saw its office life dry up almost overnight, spurring it to become a pioneer in the suddenly pertinent, possibly city-saving business of converting empty office buildings into … Continue reading How Calgary blazed the trail for converting offices to housing
By Harry McCracken October 10, 2023 In October 2020, as it became clear COVID-19 wasn’t going anywhere anytime soon, Dropbox made a big bet. Rather than continuing with a temporary remote-work policy and postponing longer-term decisions, the company declared it was going virtual-first. Henceforth, employees could work from anywhere and—with some coordination of collaboration … Continue reading How Dropbox is tackling AI—and why it’s glad it ditched its offices
By Nate Berg July 05, 2023 Offices may not be going extinct, but they seem to be getting smaller. Data from the commercial real estate services firm CBRE shows the average office lease square footage on a downward slide compared to before the pandemic. For some offices, this shift away from quantity is opening … Continue reading Offices are getting smaller, but they’re also getting nicer
By Michael Grothaus November 18, 2022 If you’ve been on Twitter this morning, you’ve probably seen the trending hashtags #TwitterMigration, #RIPTwitter, and #TwitterIsOverParty. The overall gist of the people posting these hashtags seems to be a fear of Twitter’s imminent collapse. Here’s what to know about the event that is fueling that fear. What’s … Continue reading What’s happening to Twitter? Fears of a platform on the brink as offices shut down, chaos ensues
By Sarah Lynch October 11, 2022 After more than 20 years in a traditional office space, Miriam Dushane decided it was time for a change of scenery. In February, Dushane, managing partner of Alaant Workforce Solutions, moved her Albany, New York-based recruiting company of 20 people to a coworking space that opened up just down … Continue reading Coworking is making a comeback as companies downsize offices
Apple tells corporate employees to return to the office by mid-April By late May, workers will need to be in the office at least three days a week. K. Holt @krisholt Carlos Barria / reuters Apple’s corporate employees will soon be making a gradual return to the office, two years after the COVID-19 pandemic … Continue reading Apple requires employees to work out of its offices thrice a week starting in September
By Danica Lo June 29, 2022 When the country shut down in March 2020, office workers and their laptops decamped to kitchen tables and bedrooms—many of us assuming we’d be back at our company headquarters in mere weeks. Fast forward more than two years later, and the landscape of work, and our home-office … Continue reading How home offices have evolved—and gotten cozier in the process
By Avigail Dadone April 21, 2022 After two unpredictable years of the pandemic, the fate of the workplace of the future is still in limbo. Lost in the back-and-forth among proponents of “work from anywhere” and others who insist on returning to the office is a fundamental truth about the future of work. In … Continue reading Hybrid offices give you flexibility—but they may take away this workplace essential
