EP024 - The future of the commercial real estate with Francis Saele
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The future of the commercial real estate
About the episode
This episode focuses on the future of the commercial real estate. What happens with the offices if most of us work remotely? What drives the back-to-the-office movement? How to create engaging offices in the future? What is the distributed office trend? Among others, these are the topics we will discuss with Francis Saele, a veteran real estate expert.
About the guest
Francis Saele is an accomplished senior-level corporate real estate and workplace executive with a broad-based global background. Designed and implemented successful portfolio services programs for two global service providers and hundreds of clients. A thought leader in the emerging world of remote work and the transformation of the workplace as well as its impact on corporate real estate and the built office environment.
About the host
My name is Peter Benei, founder of Anywhere Consulting. My mission is to help and inspire a community of remote leaders who can bring more autonomy, transparency, and leverage to their businesses, ultimately empowering their colleagues to be happier, more independent, and more self-conscious.
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Quotes from the show
The current offices were designed for everyone in the organization, whoever lived in the region, to be brought to a central place where they would all work together five days a week. That was the business model, and the buildings were designed that way. They were located in places where that made sense. That market really has died.
There will be demand for office space near employees. This is what I call the infrastructure supporting remote work. These places are where people will meet and come to them as opposed to the employees driving or taking the train to the office. It's going to be smaller than it was in the past, but it'll be newer, more agile, and adapted to the use it will primarily aim at.
The distributed office will emerge, but it will emerge over time as the flex market can build out more space. And it will become a much better environment for everyone working in organizations.