New Perspective: From Pandemic to Performance

Michael Boonshoft

As a global leader in the commercial real estate (CRE) industry, Cushman & Wakefield offers clients a new perspective on COVID-19’s impact on CRE and beyond, preparing them for what’s next.

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Now Available: Predicting the Return to the Office

In this latest report, the first of a new three-part Return to Office series, we look at progress across Asia Pacific, Canada, Europe and the United States, providing a valuable outlook as businesses prepare their return to office strategies.

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LEADING THE WAY TO A MORE SUSTAINABLE FUTURE

Sustainability is a complicated topic. And while most of us are generally familiar with the term, the details may be less transparent. Cushman & Wakefield sustainability experts have produced thought leadership to help you navigate its critical components.

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Cushman & Wakefield CEO expects ‘full recovery’ in office employment by mid-2022

Brett White, Executive Chairman and CEO of Cushman & Wakefield, told CNBC he’s seeing encouraging signs in the office market as it overcomes significant coronavirus-related disruption.

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Office Leasing Seen Remaining Below Pre-Covid Levels Until 2025

Global pricing and demand for office space will take almost five years to recover from the damage wrought by the pandemic, according to a report by Cushman & Wakefield.

Cushman & Wakefield CEO on the timeline to an office space demand recovery

Cushman & Wakefield CEO Brett White joins CNBC’s “Squawk on the Street” team to break down its earnings and how he anticipates office space demand to recover eventually.

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America Disrupted: The future of the workplace

Yahoo Finance’s Akiko Fujita spoke with Cushman & Wakefield NY Region President Toby Dodd, WeWork Chief Production & Experience Officer Hamid Hashemi, and Thrive Global Founder & CEO Arianna Huffington about what the workplace will look like after COVID-19.

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Trying Out New Office Layouts for the Post-Pandemic Age

Cushman & Wakefield experiments with distant desks, one-way aisles, restricted conference rooms, and lots of signage.

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Here’s how coronavirus may change how Big Tech works

Cushman & Wakefield constructed a mock-up of what it calls “The 6 Feet Office,” in Amsterdam, to demonstrate what a safe office space may look like.

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Plexiglass, masks, warning signs: Is this the office of the future?

As countries begin reopening, offices are redesigning their environments to keep workers safe from coronavirus.

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New perspective on the Economy

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Insights • Economy

EMEA Markets View

Our EMEA local market research colleagues share the latest real estate market views from their countries.

1/13/2022

Research

Policy Watch Q3 2020: COVID-19 Economic Measures Across Top Global Economies

As unprecedented as the crisis is, it’s being met by a wholly unprecedented global policy response. From Europe and the UK to countries throughout Asia and the Americas, central banks and governments have been called to action—and they are stepping up.

10/9/2020

Research • Economy

How do we move forward after COVID-19 changed the world?

The global pandemic has changed the way we operate, run businesses, educate children, socialize with friends – it’s changed the way we live our lives.

10/7/2020

Research • Economy

Coronavirus Impact on Global Property Markets

Hear Chief Economist, Kevin Thorpe and other key global leaders discuss market observations and the pandemic’s economic impact on property types and capital markets across the Americas, EMEA and APAC via the webinar replay videos.

Kevin Thorpe • 5/14/2020

New perspective on the Workplace

Research • Workplace

Predicting the Return to the Office

The rise of the Delta variant has increased uncertainty and pushed back return-to-office plans for some occupiers. This global report provides insight into the factors impacting occupier and employee decisions along with a potential trajectory of when employees will return to the office en masse in each global region.

Kevin Thorpe • 9/24/2021

Art and Creativity in the Workplace (image)

Podcast • Workplace

Podcast: Art and Creativity in the Workplace

How can an engaging workplace art programme, in both physical and digital spaces, play a role in engaging staff, nurturing behaviours and developing a creative culture in the workplace?

Michael Creamer • 6/25/2021

Article

Portfolio Reset: Aligning Portfolio, Labor & Workplace Strategy

As labor migrates to new markets, real estate market conditions evolve, and the workplace is reimagined, there is no better time to develop a unique strategy for your organization.

Michael McDermott • 6/22/2021

Insights • Workplace

Leading an Active Recovery to Build the Best Workplace Experience

Leading an Active Recovery shows how an Agile approach can engage the C-suite in real estate decisions that balance the codependent – and often contradictory – needs for efficiency, effectiveness and engagement.

Despina Katsikakis • 6/10/2021

Research • Facilities Management

Facilities Management Across the New Workplace Ecosystem

Although substantial questions remain about the future of the workplace, it is becoming increasingly clear that a focus on the office as the sole place where work is done is no longer applicable and that there is actually an ecosystem of workplaces.

5/12/2021

Podcast • Workplace

Accelerated Shifts: Facilities Management and Workplace Experience Podcast

From enabling the mass transition to homeworking to ensuring employees can work in clean, safe environments, workplace and FM practitioners have played a key role in the response to the global pandemic crisis.

Bryan Jacobs • 5/11/2021

Podcast • Workplace

Podcast: Reimagining Office Space as a Service

There is a fundamental misunderstanding that changes to how we work, post-pandemic, are merely an acceleration of trends that were already underway. Are we in fact witnessing the start of a revolution that will utterly transform the dynamics of the real estate industry?

Michael Creamer • 4/14/2021

Podcast • Workplace

Podcast: Humanizing Leadership

The pandemic crisis has been a powerful catalyst to thinking differently - to find greater success and fulfilment in our current times many business leaders have paused and reflected on their own sense of self and identity.

Michael Creamer • 3/3/2021

Research • Workplace

10 Key Learnings and What They Mean for Real Estate

It’s likely a fool’s errand to try to wrap all the complexities, shifts, challenges and surprises of 2020 into a meaningful summary. However, throughout the year, our team did uncover and analyze major trends and key learnings that emerged for the real estate industry.

Kevin Thorpe • 3/2/2021

Podcast • Workplace

Podcast: Wellbeing and Work

We are living a work-life integration where people don’t know when or how to turn off. As these challenging times continue to have a significant impact on employees, have we seen the wake-up call for employers to consider investing in the experience of their employees?

Michael Creamer • 2/3/2021

Podcast • Workplace

Rebuilding Culture In A Post Pandemic World

With business leaders planning to maintain a hybrid work-from-home structure even after the COVID-19 threat has passed, everything has changed. How should businesses now think about culture and what it means?

Despina Katsikakis • 1/21/2021

New perspective on Investments

Insights • Investment / Capital Markets

Infographic: Choose Your Next European Tech Hub in Line with Your Business Drivers

Understanding the most recent trends in Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) can help to identify, by sector, which locations are most attractive for corporates’ operations.

Dimitris Vlachopoulos • 6/15/2021

Research

Global Residential Impact Study: Which Gateway Markets are Primed to Rebound Post-Pandemic?

This Global Multi-Family study examines 27 global gateway markets and assesses the impact the pandemic had on residential demand, provides a “rebound ranking” score and investment recommendations.

6/4/2021

Video • Workplace

What’s your take…on healthy buildings?

Senior Vice President, Building Solutions Group at Carrier, Rajan Goel, discusses the importance of healthy buildings in a post-COVID-19 world.

1/8/2021

Research

Coliving During COVID-19

Prior to the COVID-19 crisis, coliving was a rapidly growing niche asset class in major North American markets. The pandemic has created some challenges for developers and operators as overall rents and occupancy have declined, yet rent collections have remained in line with conventional multifamily.

Susan Tjarksen • 11/12/2020

Research • Investment / Capital Markets

Occupier Monetization in the Time of COVID-19

The impact of COVID-19 has caused uncertainty for many companies. As earnings pressures and liquidity needs have increased, corporations are focused on drawing down on credit lines, renegotiating debt terms and accessing government assistance through federal programs.

Robert Elms • 5/6/2020

Article • Workplace

Lease Provisions to be Aware of Amid COVID-19

Due to the virus’ impact, tenants may struggle to occupy space and pay rent in the upcoming months. We would like to make you aware of a few clauses that tenants may explore as possible options to withhold rent, seek abatement or terminate their lease.

Barrie Scardina • 4/10/2020

New perspective on retail & e-commerce

Insights

The grocery store of the future

Thanks to digital disruption, the grocery store of the future will provide a myriad of options to its customers. What might it look like?

Barrie Scardina • 3/31/2021

Insights • E-Commerce

Keeping up with digital sales demand

Digital sales, also known as e-commerce, have been growing steadily over the past several years. How do companies keep up?

Tim Crighton • 3/31/2021

Article • Supply Chain

E-commerce Growth Surge Sparks Logistics Free-For-All

E-commerce has exploded in recent years, but as COVID-19 emerged the sector has seen unprecedented growth. While many industries battled disruptions, e-commerce provides opportunity.

Benjamin Conwell • 11/16/2020

Article

Restoring Retail Confidence: The Future of Fitness

The fitness industry pivoted during mid-March when fitness centers and boutique gyms were forced to close as a result of COVID-19. Now, the looming question is: How will the fitness industry move forward as this pandemic evolves?

Barrie Scardina • 5/14/2020

New perspective on Industries

Research • Valuation

Valuation & Advisory Industrial Investor Survey

Cushman & Wakefield Valuation & Advisory’s Logistics & Industrial Practice Group periodically surveys investors regarding their decision-making processes in selecting overall capitalization rates. In this report, we present our latest results, followed by recent industrial market highlights.

Mike Schaeffer • 4/17/2024

Research

Global Manufacturing Risk Index

Following almost three years of managing risks and complexities during and following the global COVID-19 pandemic, manufacturing and production businesses now face new and emerging conditions as well as continuing to navigate longer-term challenges.

Sally Bruer • 11/30/2022

Podcast

Podcast: Student Accommodation and the Build-To-Rent Sector

When it comes to university accommodation, today's students have increased expectations of value across the accommodation experience.

Michael Creamer • 6/2/2021

Research

Is COVID-19 Healthcare’s Kryptonite?

Will the duration of COVID-19 highlight the vulnerability of the healthcare sector and lead to a reassessment of its much discussed “recession-resistance”? Or, will this pandemic reinforce and underscore healthcare’s sustainable, steady strength? Read Cushman & Wakefield's latest report that addresses these questions.

Lorie Damon • 12/9/2020

Research

Coliving During COVID-19

Susan Tjarksen • 11/12/2020

Research • Technology

State of the Cloud: Data Center Global Cloud Report

The recent pandemic has accelerated the move of companies large and small to the major cloud services. They are drawn by the scalability and accessibility of these platforms that are in place to assist with the complexities of a fully distributed workforce.

Andrew Fray • 8/27/2020

Research

The Impact of COVID-19 and Oil Price Declines on Oil Sensitive Office Markets

Demand for petroleum products collapsed at a time when global output was ramping up, fueled by rising shale oil output in the U.S. As a result, global oil prices collapsed for the third time in the last 13 years.

8/10/2020

Insights

The strongest hotels are strategizing for a successful comeback

With little to zero travel happening since the pandemic’s inception, hotels have taken a hit like never before. As countries undertake various phased measures and approaches to recovery readiness, the hotel industry is poising itself for its own path forward.

Elaine Sahlins • 7/29/2020

New perspective on Sustainability

Article • Sustainability / ESG

The State of Sustainability in Corporate Real Estate and Beyond

Based on an episode of What’s Next in Corporate Real Estate here’s the good news and the bad news concerning environmental practices in real estate as well as what the future holds.

Michael Creamer • 7/26/2021

Research • Sustainability / ESG

Sustainability 101: Your Guide to Critical Definitions

We have created a list of terms and definitions we think are of particular importance when it comes to sustainability and commercial real estate.

6/7/2021

Insights • Sustainability / ESG

The Role of Cities in Defining Our Environmental Future

To support that future, the urban ecosystem needs to be at the heart of urban and development planning. While some might argue that’s a constraint on development, it’s actually an opportunity.

6/3/2021

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Insights • Economy

Webinar: COVID-19 Implications for Real Estate Investors and Occupiers

Watch the Cushman & Wakefield webinar to learn about the implications of COVID-19 for real estate investors and occupiers.

Kevin Thorpe • 3/23/2020

Research • Economy

COVID-19: Lessons from China

As the Greater China region enters a recovery phase following months of COVID-19 turmoil, we’re bringing you insights on how occupiers and investors are together trying to discover what business as usual now looks like.

3/16/2020

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New Perspective: From Pandemic to Performance

Michael Boonshoft

Now Available: Predicting the Return to the Office

LEADING THE WAY TO A MORE SUSTAINABLE FUTURE

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In the news

Cushman & Wakefield CEO expects ‘full recovery’ in office employment by mid-2022

Office Leasing Seen Remaining Below Pre-Covid Levels Until 2025

Cushman & Wakefield CEO on the timeline to an office space demand recovery

New perspective on the Economy

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New perspective on the Workplace

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Podcast • Workplace

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New perspective on Investments

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New perspective on retail & e-commerce

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New perspective on Industries

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New perspective on Sustainability

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