Sitemap - 2024 - Work 20XX on Substack

The number one reason people wanted to go into the office was just based on who else was going into the office

Our most powerful connections to new ideas are those weak ties that are in different parts of the network

I haven't done it yet, but I will soon.

Digital Twins: there'll be variations just like every other technology

We just didn't have the right behaviors and etiquettes in place

My job as a CEO is to communicate

Helping leaders think about what flexibility means to different individuals is key

Our mission is to prove meetings can be joyful and productive

It's improved our communication

'This is where I'll be most successful today'

Because we can - Meg Bear

Make it easier for people to know what success looks like

The key is to create a culture that supports people's growth

You’ve got to put some constraints on the calendar

Give an elevator pitch, in an elevator

It is a culture change

Transferable skills are very important

We're part of the healthiest office building in the world.

Organizations have net zero targets that are approaching very quickly.

Knowledge isn't power. Application of knowledge is power.

What's your take on AI regulation and governance?

Hard tradeoffs for the ultimate objective of the mission

When I started, there wasn't a lot out there, I was navigating in the dark

We are going to be continuously working across distance, nationally, internationally, globally

We built a global employment infrastructure in 180 countries

Quotas are not legal

What's your sonic personality, your sono type? - Evan Benway

You got to go fast, like even faster - Phil Kirschner

I did grow up in a digital first arena - Dave Cairns

If it's not being done in open source, it's probably not worth doing - Chet Kapoor

Is there a commercial real estate cliff on the horizon?

Managing fear is an important skill for leaders - Tony Jamous

I couldn't believe how unproductive the environment was - Evan Benway

Your competitors are nibbling your employees away

A Huge Sentiment Shift - Julie Whelan

Innovation is a two-part process - Kate Lister

This is one of the under-the-radar benefits - Chase Warrington

Companies growing headcount on average are probably doing better, winning in their industries - Rob Sadow

Our biggest problem was to get people to stop - Jack Nilles

The Eagle and The Condor - Tony Jamous

We experience everything in multiple senses at the same time - Evan Benway

Oyster is a laboratory for human-centric leadership - Tony Jamous

It took a change in behavior - Sacha Connor

Just because people came, doesn't mean they were engaged - Julie Whelan

It's Return to Office Mandate Season

Feeling ownership is a key criteria - Michelle Ossmann

AI adoption success is driven by the same behaviors that drive flexible work success

Residential areas are massively underserved by Co-working 1.0

There's no one leader I know that's complete - Dominic Price

Think 'Teams of Teams' - Sacha Connor

A complete free for all is also not going to work for us - Brian Elliott

It's a pretty safe bet we'll be working from home more days than less - Nick Bloom

There is a blind spot between what leaders are asking people to do and what people are actually doing - Nellie Hayat

‘No Questions Asked’ - Chase Warrington

‘Follow the Molecule’ or to ‘Accelerate Clinical Speed’ - Phil Kirschner

You can't just fix the meetings - Sacha Connor

I was able to overcome those barriers - Sacha Connor

Why are you looking at Spotify? - Dom Price

Distributed work, it started with mobility - Ryan Anderson

Expectations are forever changed - Darren Murph

How do you create the perfect synthetic data? - Maribel Lopez

Create the space to be exactly who you are - Michelle Ossmann

I’m a danger to the system - Jack Nilles

We might be our full self, but not every single aspect of ourselves - Sophie Wade

This is what I've been feeling all of these years - Sacha Connor

Build that feeling of connection and warmth with the group - Sacha Connor

I use it to balance my Mojo investment - Dominic Price

A city like New York has this pressure - Phil Kirschner

It was hard to go back to taking a call in front of other people - Nellie Hayat

Everything I did over the course of my career has prepared me for this moment - Amina Moreau

Technology change is only advancing, not retracting - Brian Elliott

What's the right vessel to move me across the next body of water - Andreas Hoffbauer

It's about trust - Kate Lister

I would love to see more open mindedness around what's possible - Dave Cairns

I kept learning out loud - Tyler Sellhorn

AI is going to help us with our work processes - Julie Whelan

If we look five, certainly ten years out, the technologies we're using will be dramatically better - Nick Bloom

Which Companies are Hybrid?

You have to have all these systems talking to each other - Phil Kirschner

Can you predict the future or are you building the future? - Nellie Hayat

If you look at most large companies, they have a mix of all three and it makes total sense - Nick Bloom

The number of people who are FOBO, ‘Fear Of Becoming Obsolete’ was like 40% - Sophie Wade

There's all kinds of ways you can tweak the edges - Jack Nilles

The more neutral environment communicated 'There are others like me here' - Michelle Ossmann

You need to understand the challenges that we overcame, the mistakes we made - Dom Price

‘Build in Public’ mindset is something I've fallen in love with - Chase Warrington

It's fun to be a little small part of the movement - Chase Warrington

Technology was never the problem - Jack Nilles

Clients want to expand the usage of flexible office space - Julie Whelan

Asynchronous work, create the time and space to do it - Tracy Hawkins

People that know how to leverage them are going to get ahead - Jeff Frick

Adaptability requires ears and eyes and a little bit of humility - Dominic Price

Gosh, what would have to be true to answer that question - Phil Kirschner

You should not graze email all day - Shani Harmon

What is the digital corridor of human interaction? Michelle Ossmann

Expand your vision of what's possible - Andreas Hoffbauer

Workplace doesn't create management challenges, it reveals them - Adrienne Rowe

You need psychological safety between teams and that is a damn site harder - Dom Price

Most people are creatures of habit - Rob Sadow

Nothing builds connection like trust - Brian Elliott

I've become a different person, far more active in a smaller community - Dave Cairns

Get better at documentation - Darren Murph

Distraction: The number one problem forever - Phil Kirschner

I want to hear what you have to say because you have a view that I don't - Dave Montez

The longer term out that you get, the more visionary you get - Julie Whelan

Distractions, Isolation and Burnout - Amina Moreau

Upskilling is about doing - Meg Bear

We hire adults. Why do we treat them as children?

What's AI going to do, how we going get paid? - Sophie Wade

Let's go and speculate. Let's go and play - Dom Price

Gut feeling? Great, it starts there - Nellie Hayat

It was a national emergency. We needed to figure this out - Nick Bloom

Bürolandschaft - Office Landscape - Ryan Anderson

Remote is good for companies, people, and the planet - Kate Lister

Magic happens in-person - Michelle Ossmann

How do we make meetings better? Make them harder to have - Darren Murph

We are all full. If you're full and you want to get better at something, you have to remove first - Dom Price

Sting said it's like fishing. You got to go down to the river and put your hook in the water every day - Jeff Frick

How do we use the workflows you're already in so it's just a button that pops up - Rob Sadow

Hospitality is deeply ingrained across cultures, across the world, over time as this fundamental set of values that all human beings share - Michelle Ossmann, PhD, MSN

Is explainable AI even possible?

Real estate needs to respond to the changing profile and duration of even the life of an organization - Dave Cairns

LinkedIn is incredible, it helped me expand my world - Andreas Hoffbauer

Most people are creatures of habit - Rob Sadow

For every day you go into the office, you probably spend 5 to 10x that amount of time in meetings - Rob Sadow

Think about who you are. Do you even know who you are? - Tyler Sellhorn

If you empower people to live better lives, they're going to explode with gratitude in the form of productivity back to the company - Darren Murph

The office has competition. People don't have to work there. - Ryan Anderson

Choice versus coordination is like an epic medieval battle - Nick Bloom

It's not going to get easier, it's going to get more complex, more complicated - Brian Elliott

There's a purity in that that is really rare in the human experience - Dave Cairns

We have too many meetings - Brian Elliott

You lean on the ‘F’ word, ‘How does it feel?’

Welcome the guest who comes to the door because they could be an angel or a god, you never know - Michelle Ossmann

Distraction is different for different people and environments - Amina Moreau

We now trust each other to have an argument - Dominic Price

Give them agency and advocacy - Nellie Hayat

Hospitality can set the tone - Michelle Ossmann

Workplace professionals have a seat at the table for how people work moving forward - Tracy Hawkins

I'm thinking about employees and workers as being creators - Sophie Wade

Inform and Update, two of the most common reasons 'Not' to meet - Shani Harmon

People are using sensor data to truly understand - Julie Whelan

The minute you get information that invalidates that point of view, you've got to move - Adrienne Rowe

For the most part, models are not trained on the world that you would like to see, let's just say - Maribel Lopez

Remote work is good for companies, good for people, and good for the planet - Kate Lister

Take the things that are taxing in terms of getting people together, and eliminate them

Humans should be human, Machines should be machines, and we can coexist - Dominic Price

People are deciding to take a bit of leisure in the week and they're making up for it on the weekends - Nick Bloom

What does it really mean to be a trophy building now - Phil Kirschner

The office experience left a lot to be desired - Rob Sadow

Celebrate and then have wake, because the environment is different

Async is the unlock

Turning off the lights when no one's in the building was a good start

I need to better understand who you are, what really drives you, what you're excited by - Sophie Wade

It's improved our communication - Dave Montez

Sensor technologies allow organizations to actually understand spaces are being used - Julie Whelan

This isn't a real estate challenge. This is a human resources challenge - Julie Whelan

Create time and space - Tracy Hawkins

Offices in the future will be a mix of the best restaurants, most inspiring learning campuses, engaging hubs, and serene retreats - Nellie Hayat

In our survey, 50% of Americans want hybrid, 30% want fully remote, and 20% want fully in-person - Nick Bloom

We have this robust waiting list of properties that are bursting with excitement to be serving companies - Amina Moreau

You start with your own assumptions, then either confirm or deny with data - Nellie Hayat

Change is hard for anybody - Brian Elliott