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When it comes to real estate, MIPIM is an unmissable annual highlight — bringing the world’s most influential players together on the French Riviera for four days of keynotes, conversations, trend forecasting, and, of course, exorbitant amounts of wine and cheese.


What We Learned at MIPIM 2019

Coworking and flexible space — they’re the same thing, right? To the untrained eye, the general consensus might be “pretty much,” but if you have anything to do with your company's real estate portfolio, you know how much the details matter. 


Coworking vs. Flexible Office Space: The Devil Is in the Details 

We're getting back into the swing of things after another epic trip to SXSW.

From Austin, With Love

Whether you eagerly anticipate quality face-time with your workplace brethren or avoid calendar invites like the plague, it’s safe to say that for most people, the humble meeting has a bit of an image problem. And for good reason. A poorly executed meeting is not just a waste of time, it can be detrimental to team morale and counter-productive to its stated purpose.


10 Meetings to Take Outside the Office

The cat’s long been out of the bag as to the effect of workplace design on productivity, but corporate culture is hitting a drastic uptick in new triggers for focus, cognition and enriched social interchange. So what does this mean exactly? And, more importantly, how do we make it actionable?


Designing a Workplace to Optimize for Productivity

Between new channels and methods of communication, globalization, automation, and the changing value proposition of the office, the very concept of the workplace continues to evolve faster than you can say “let’s connect on this high-level action item.” 

Why Third Spaces Are the Key to Unlocking Employee Productivity and Potential

Most people have had some experience of working with unwavering advocates for the status quo, those whose infinite roundabout of reasoning amounts to “this is the right way to do things because this is how we do it.”

Five Reasons Why Flex Isn’t Weird at All

The annual spike in engagements over the holidays means that January is extra busy at the wedding planning platform where I work in the Financial District, nonetheless my team and I made good on our New Year’s resolutions all January long. 

FiDiaries: A Wedding Planner Takes on Valentine's Month One Dessert at a Time

Depending on my mood I either think the fine independent shops of Marylebone have been hand-selected to tempt or torment me – let’s face it, the state of my mood is closely related to the state of my bank balance.

London Ledger: A Modern Jane Austen Heroine Fends Off Temptation in Marylebone

I’m an event producer at a Midtown lifestyle agency and, yes, the fact that I’m low-key into historical cosplay only makes me awesomer at my job. Sometimes a little sixteenth-century revivalism takes the edge off at the end of the day

Mad About Midtown: An Event Producer Discovers the Enchantments of Tudor City

“A bad workman blames his tools.” “The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence.” “Wherever you go, there you are.” Sure, these are useful platitudes for self flagellation but can we just be real for a minute? Sometimes your tools suck, your 



It’s Not Me, It’s You — Breaking Up With that Deadbeat Office

That software engineer you see weekday mornings bounding off the unmistakable orange watercraft at Whitehall Ferry Terminal and hightailing it to work at an all-in-one HR platform for mid-sized companies? It’s me. My colleagues affectionately taunt me for hopping coasts from California to the city that never sleeps just to plant my flag in “the forgotten borough” but I let their jibes about living in Staten Island roll away like highfalutin water off a duck’s back. Why? Because besides relishing the lower population density and affordability offered by New York City’s redheaded stepchild, I adore my 25-minute commute to and from the Financial District.


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