TenantSee Weekly: Modern Workplace Planning: Solving for Experience Part VII: Design and Construction
One common mistake tenants and their advisors make when negotiating the office lease is failure to properly account for design and construction implications. These are important considerations. Space design plays a vital role in determining the efficacy of the space, how it translates in terms of value to the employees. Construction is expensive, representing a material component of the tenant’s total occupancy cost. Gaining understanding about design and construction at the right time in the transaction process provides useful data in the context of effective negotiations.
TenantSee Weekly: The Office as Hotel
I participate in a lot of “conversations” on LinkedIn in which people argue that office buildings should be as flexible as hotels. I love to explore the possibilities, the idea the office can be something different, something better. But sometimes these conversations are so detached from reality it makes my head hurt.
