The next in the FlexSA webinar series focused on operators and how they are adapting for the return of clients to the workspace following the COVID-19 restrictions. Alongside Jane Sartin from FlexSA we heard from FlexSA Chairman and Head of Business & Corporate at The Deep Business Centre, Freya Cross and FlexSA Board member Richard McVay who is Vice President …
Government guidelines on social distancing have radically changed the role of technology in our lives, with everything from our workday meetings to our weekly pub quizzes moving online. But for many of us, the impact on our working lives has been the most significant, with a prolonged period of remote working seeing internet consumption rise by 67% and the use …
The team at FlexSA continued with their webinar series with the latest – “The Increasing Importance of Data and Technology to Flex Space Operators” featuring Peter Anderson from The Office Group, Miro Miroslavov from Officernd and Adam Blaskey from Produktiv. Here’s our five key takeaways from this FlexSA webinar: Data will help with the return to the workspace Now more …
The latest report from the Oxford Future of Real Estate Initiative showing that the UK is leading proptech investment into Europe was certainly encouraging news. With the report predicting that tech behemoths such as Amazon and Apple will build their own proptech services, it’s hardly surprising that investors see the meeting of property and technology as an increasingly attractive opportunity. …
After the last recession, many large corporates re-evaluated their office portfolio costs and took the decision that they needed to focus on their business, not facilities management. Many relocated all or part of their teams to flex workspaces where they could enjoy the time savings of not managing utility, cleaning and catering suppliers and the cost saving of one simple …
The 19th May should have seen the flexible workspace community attending the FlexSA conference in London, but in the current situation the team made the difficult decision to postpone to 2021 and instead present not one, but two webinars on the day. Here’s our 6 key takeaways from the two sessions. Session one: Two worlds and in between: the post-pandemic …
Advances in technology have changed so many areas of society and the economy. Commercial real estate (CRE) is no exception, where technological breakthroughs have not only led to new modern methods of construction, but have also fundamentally changed people’s expectations of what a building can deliver. Tenants no longer perceive a building as purely bricks and mortar. Instead, many building …
GCUC have been forging ahead with their webinar series and the latest was organised by the GCUC UK team. The subject was ‘Post COVID-19 strategies for reopening’ and featured a great line up including Liz Elam hosting, Anthony Slumbers moderating the session and an expert panel of Jonny Weinbrenn from BE Offices, Natasha Guerra from Runway East, Seb Royale from …
We were privileged to have been part of the first in the new series of FlexSA webinars with our discussion on ‘How innovation is key in the era of COVID-19’ (you can read our key takeaways from that session here). The next in the series took place on 7th May and featured our friends Sallie Maskrey from Portal Business Centres …
Tumbleweed is blowing through your coworking space right now, memberships have been put on hold, the coffee machine and the beer fridge are switched off and the greenery is limp. So, will coworking survive in 2020? Top line statistics are not encouraging. DeskMag reported in their Global Coworking Survey 2019 that only 43% of spaces were profitable, due to a …