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Three strategies can help employees anywhere feel connected.

The battle over remote work is heating up this winter. Demands to return to the office are being met with rising rates of COVID...

Edge computing, loss prevention and the metaverse are on the horizon for retail brands this year.

The Covid-19 pandemic has increased pressures for companies to ensure workspaces are better ventilated. But eco-friendly design guidelines call for ensuring that energy heating or cooling such spaces isn not wasted. Are healthy and green building principles in conflict? They don’t have to be. Several actions, such as regular building tune-ups, filters, air-quality monitoring, and electrification, can lead to progress on one front without diminishing it on the other.

By Phil Kirschner, Senior Expert and Associate Partner, McKinsey & Company New York

Net zero transition costs for existing building stock need to be factored in now to ensure the industry does not face a 'carbon bubble' valuation crisis.

Buildings are responsible for nearly 40 percent of the world’s carbon emissions. In Amsterdam, they are trying to create a blueprint to do something about it.

Figuring out how much office space to lease may be more complicated than it’s ever been for occupiers. In addition to typical considerations like how many

In an increasingly hotter world, what policies, designs, technologies & behaviours can provide thermal adequacy for coolth?

Buried within the 730-page Inflation Reduction Act that Congress recently passed is a dizzying array of proposals that directly and indirectly impact the

Explore what we need to do to reach net zero carbon in the built environment.

Understanding group dynamics and how team-building, when done correctly, can dramatically improve workplace efficiency.

How can you measure your building's carbon emissions and who owns the carbon? We offer a simple guide on the three scopes of emissions and ways to divide the ownership, underscoring the need for good data.

Working in close range led to knowledge-sharing and faster innovation, a study finds.

Cubicles are largely empty in downtown San Francisco and Midtown Manhattan, but workers in America’s midsize and small cities are back to their commutes.

The SEC’s draft regulation would require all public companies to disclose emissions and risks related to their real estate. Here’s why the real-estate industry should move preemptively.

Companies today should build workplaces that help them realize their strategies. Here’s why and how.

We must update not just our workplaces but the mindset that leads them.

As we redesign work for the hybrid future, it is vital to understand the ways that information flows and networks form within organizations.

The globe-trotting lifestyle will be open only to a lucky few

A hybrid-work challenge: taking attendance.

It promises to bring new levels of social connectedness, mobility, and collaboration to a world of virtual work.

“Companies need to think through what, exactly, they want to accomplish by bringing people back and why,” workplace expert Elise Freedman says.

Nearly 75% of professionals tell Korn Ferry that a return to the office will be negative for their mental health. With the pandemic fading, leaders have their work cut out for them.

Cheap and easy to make, concrete is a favorite building material around the world, with 30 billion metric tons used each year. But the cement industry accounts for 7 percent of global carbon emissions, spurring a research race to design more sustainable building materials, be it more eco-friendly concrete or enhanced wood materials.