Category: Team Building

As a commercial real estate veteran, I can assure you that my industry has rarely if ever driven front-page news. 

How quickly things change. In a matter of months, Covid-19 has caused an historic, radical transformation in how we think about the time-honored act of going to work. The CDC recently issued restrictive occupancy guidelines; companies like Twitter and Shopify have suggested their employees may work remotely forever; NYC is re-opening, yet only 10-15{998ff540fe94a59c7c9828c4dd5223100610db67cea90947d11644c77e05f5f4} of office workers have actually returned.

Is the office as we knew it gone forever? Or have recent events simply accelerated inevitable and much-needed change? Staying ahead of the curve has long been an obsession for those of us in the business of building, owning, and managing real estate. Now, my colleagues and I spend every waking moment trying to resolve these questions. 

Let’s begin with the good news: reports of “the death of

When you launch a business, you tend to know everyone in the office. As such, it can give you the feeling that you can trust everyone. But small and mid-size businesses make up 68 percent of employee theft, according to Hiscox, an insurance company. 

What if there was an easy way to reduce your exposure? And what if you already had this system in place, but you just weren’t taking advantage of it?

Yep. Send your employees on vacation. Here’s why.

Send people on a true vacation–no laptops, no phones, no logging on, for two weeks. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation has a longstanding recommendation that banks have a two-consecutive-week vacation policy:

“This basic control has proven to be an effective internal safeguard in preventing fraud. In addition, such a policy is viewed as a benefit to the well-being of the employees and can be a valuable

If you’ve had to adapt to working from home in the last few months, you could learn a few things from Matt Mullenweg.

Co-founder of the website-building platform WordPress, and Automattic, its parent company, Mullenweg lives in Houston while overseeing a fully distributed team of about 1,100 employees operating in 77 cities around the world. 

During a Real Talk Business Reboot webinar on Wednesday, Mullenweg told Inc. Editor-at-Large Tom Foster that any person–or company–can adjust to post-office life if they try. “It can work for everyone, but I’ve seen people give up before they’re there,” he said. 

Working outside of the office, Mullenweg explained, has “an incredible impact on the individuals” and ultimately empowers them to lead richer lives. That, he says, “leads them to be able to bring more creativity to the work.”

Here are more takeaways from their conversation:

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