Data + Listening = Not Leaving Money On The Table For Office Owners

Listening to your tenants is well and good, but creating office buildings that people actually want to work in requires an additional step: analysing what they actually do.

The ability to utilise data to measure how people use offices and the districts around them is revolutionising the ability of office owners to understand how best to design buildings and the amenities to add, according to panelists at Bisnow London’s Creative Office bash. That is especially the case when this is combined with surveying staff and talking to corporate clients, because the two sets of information don’t always add up.

“How people think they use the space versus how they actually use the space, there is normally a pretty big delta,” Deutsche Bank Managing Director Kathryn Harrison-Thomas said. Equiem UK and Ireland General Manager Bronny Wilson offered an example: When…

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Private Equity, REITs And Some Interesting Private Investors Are Among Most Exposed Owners After Debenhams Administration

Department store chain Debenhams was taken over by its lenders via a pre-pack administration this week, a move which is likely to lead to the closure of 50 or more of its 165 stores.The stores to close have not yet been announced. Using data from…

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