The Return to Work During COVID-19 with Antonia Cardone of Cushman & Wakefield

In this episode of Real Estate for Breakfast, Antonia Cardone, Americas Lead of Total Workplace for Cushman & Wakefield, joins Phil to discuss the return to work following the COVID-19 pandemic and stay-at-home restrictions. Cushman & Wakefield has helped numerous businesses return to work in China and across Asia, and Antonia brings that experience and knowledge to this discussion. Antonia and Phil discuss how businesses can prepare now to return to work in the future and think about what the future at work will be like and what we know now about people working from home. They discuss the “6 Feet Office” and other considerations as we go back to our offices, including maintaining social distance, minimizing touch points and managing any contamination. The return to work will be gradual and businesses can prepare the building, workforce and organization now for that transition. In the long run, technology will be key. The role of the office and how we create community and culture will change and evolve.

Antonia Cardone is Americas Lead of Total Workplace for Cushman & Wakefield. In this role, she supports clients and accounts challenged to create work environments that best support their people and business goals. Antonia’s specialties include innovative workplace strategies, activity based work settings, dynamic facilitation skills, sensitive change management, effective occupancy strategies and focused project management. She and her team serve clients by creating strategic plans to optimize space utilization; create dynamic, flexible work environments; and support change and future-ready spaces and portfolios. As well as providing stand-alone advisory services, the team has strong synergies with other services already available to Cushman & Wakefield clients, in particular, portfolio strategy, project management, brokerage and facilities management.

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Co-Living With Susan Tjarksen of Cushman and Wakefield

Joining Phil on this episode is Susan Tjarksen, Managing Director at Cushman and Wakefield.  Susan has over 30 years of experience in real estate, in both the public and private sectors.  She is a leading expert on co-living and joins us to discuss how buildings are being developed and adapted for the Co-living model to generate more income per square foot while at the same time serving marketplace demands.  Co-living is a community style of living where common spaces are shared, and spaces such as bedrooms are private, with each tenant responsible only for their share (rather than everyone in one unit being jointly and severally liable).  Susan and Phil discuss why co-living, which has existed for quite some time in various forms, is regaining popularity among the younger professional demographic: millennials.  Susan goes in depth about what is attracting more and more people to co-living in the gateway markets.  One of the main reasons is affordability, because rent is rapidly expanding in these markets, and the other is convenience.  This creates an opportunity for developers and investors.  According to a survey by the National Apartment Association, millennials chose to live close to work and travel for entertainment, which makes co-living all the more attractive for young professionals seeking the ideal living situation.

You can contact Susan Tjarksen and learn more about Cushman and Wakefield here.

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