{"id":6678,"date":"2020-05-13T13:21:11","date_gmt":"2020-05-13T13:21:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2020\/05\/13\/some-companies-are-killing-the-office-for-good-and-it-could-transform-the-way-we-live\/"},"modified":"2020-05-13T13:21:11","modified_gmt":"2020-05-13T13:21:11","slug":"some-companies-are-killing-the-office-for-good-and-it-could-transform-the-way-we-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2020\/05\/13\/some-companies-are-killing-the-office-for-good-and-it-could-transform-the-way-we-live\/","title":{"rendered":"Some companies are killing the office for good \u2014 and it could transform the way we live"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> \n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<h2 class=\"visually-hidden\">Article content continued<\/h2>\n<p>\u201cFrom a cost perspective, it\u2019s probably neutral, getting to maybe a slight benefit,\u201d Barrenechea told the Financial Post in a recent interview, noting that any benefit would be reinvested in the workforce.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt also is going to allow us to go after talent that we weren\u2019t able to go after before, because our talent has always been tied to a physical space.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.opentext.com\/\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">OpenText<\/a> made its decision earlier than most, but experts in the world of commercial real estate say that companies all across North America are rethinking their real estate footprints, and the long-term effects could transform the way we live.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"embedded-image\"><picture class=\"embedded-image__ratio\"><source data-srcset=\"https:\/\/financialpostcom.files.wordpress.com\/2020\/05\/mark-barrenchea.jpg?w=564&amp;quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;type=webp,&#10;            https:\/\/financialpostcom.files.wordpress.com\/2020\/05\/mark-barrenchea.jpg?w=1128&amp;quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;type=webp 2x\" media=\"(min-width: 1200px)\" type=\"image\/webp\"\/><source data-srcset=\"https:\/\/financialpostcom.files.wordpress.com\/2020\/05\/mark-barrenchea.jpg?w=564&amp;quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;type=jpg,&#10;            https:\/\/financialpostcom.files.wordpress.com\/2020\/05\/mark-barrenchea.jpg?w=1128&amp;quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;type=jpg 2x\" media=\"(min-width: 1200px)\" type=\"image\/jpeg\"\/><source data-srcset=\"https:\/\/financialpostcom.files.wordpress.com\/2020\/05\/mark-barrenchea.jpg?w=472&amp;quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;type=webp,&#10;            https:\/\/financialpostcom.files.wordpress.com\/2020\/05\/mark-barrenchea.jpg?w=944&amp;quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;type=webp 2x\" media=\"(min-width: 768px)\" type=\"image\/webp\"\/><source data-srcset=\"https:\/\/financialpostcom.files.wordpress.com\/2020\/05\/mark-barrenchea.jpg?w=472&amp;quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;type=jpg,&#10;            https:\/\/financialpostcom.files.wordpress.com\/2020\/05\/mark-barrenchea.jpg?w=944&amp;quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;type=jpg 2x\" media=\"(min-width: 768px)\" type=\"image\/jpeg\"\/><source data-srcset=\"https:\/\/financialpostcom.files.wordpress.com\/2020\/05\/mark-barrenchea.jpg?w=288&amp;quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;type=webp,&#10;            https:\/\/financialpostcom.files.wordpress.com\/2020\/05\/mark-barrenchea.jpg?w=576&amp;quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;type=webp 2x\" media=\"(max-width: 767px)\" type=\"image\/webp\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Mark Barrenechea, CEO of OpenText, at the company\u2019s offices in Ottawa in 2016. \" class=\"embedded-image__image lazyload\" src=\"https:\/\/financialpostcom.files.wordpress.com\/2020\/05\/mark-barrenchea.jpg?w=288&amp;quality=90&amp;strip=all\" srcset=\"https:\/\/financialpostcom.files.wordpress.com\/2020\/05\/mark-barrenchea.jpg?w=288&amp;quality=90&amp;strip=all,&#10;                https:\/\/financialpostcom.files.wordpress.com\/2020\/05\/mark-barrenchea.jpg?w=576&amp;quality=90&amp;strip=all 2x\" height=\"480\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\"\/><\/picture><figcaption class=\"image-caption\"><span class=\"caption\">Mark Barrenechea, CEO of OpenText, at the company\u2019s offices in Ottawa in 2016.<\/span> <span class=\"credit\">Photo by Chris Roussakis for National Post files<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Ray Wong, vice president of data operations at Altus Group, a commercial real estate services company, said that there are a lot of different effects on commercial real estate as a result of the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>For example, on the one hand companies will need less space, because more people will be working from home. But at the same time, companies will need more space to accommodate physical distancing requirements until a <a href=\"https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/news\/world\/top-hiv-scientist-says-he-wouldnt-count-on-a-vaccine-to-ease-covid-19-pandemic\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">COVID-19 vaccine<\/a> is developed.<\/p>\n<p>Wong said that there\u2019s so much uncertainty around the future of the virus, that leaders will need to plan for flexibility, as they enact temporary distancing measures to reduce risk.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNobody, I think, is ruling anything out, with the exception perhaps of OpenText,\u201d Wong said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s how they\u2019re going to plan their space, but I think there are a lot of other companies that are still trying to figure this out, what their needs are, and what their employees\u2019 needs are, how to keep them safe.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/financialpost.com\/real-estate\/property-post\/some-companies-are-killing-the-office-for-good-and-it-could-transform-the-way-we-live\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Article content continued \u201cFrom a cost perspective, it\u2019s probably neutral, getting to maybe a slight benefit,\u201d Barrenechea told the Financial Post in a recent interview, noting that any benefit would&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6679,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-real-estate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6678\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/6679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}