U.S. Office Vacancy Hits New High with Tenants in Control - May 2024 Newsletter
CBRE previously expected the vacancy rate would top out at approximately 19.7% later this year, but it’s now forecasted to reach its peak next year at 19.9%. Demand for office space is anticipated to rise in mid-2025 once interest rates decrease and there is more certainty surrounding the economy.
Continue reading
2024 Work Trends and Rise of AI - December 2023 Newsletter
Business leaders' interest in the technology parallels that of the public, with 80% of business leaders in a Deloitte CEO survey from summer 2023 agreeing that generative AI will increase efficiencies in their organization.
Continue reading
Employee Autonomy in the era of Flexible Work - November 2023 Newsletter
In Gartner’s October 2022 survey of 351 Gen Z employees, 65% said whether or not they can work flexibly would impact whether they stay at their organization, and 53% cited it as a reason they were looking for a new job. Across all generations, work-life balance currently ranks as the third most important attribute employees are looking for in a job.
Continue reading
Meet The CrowdComfort Team: Kaylon Crawford
In this blog we interview Kaylon Crawford, our Lead Implementation & Customer Support Specialist for the Chicago team, who shares her many talents and strengths inside and outside the workplace. Learn about her career, day to day life, and passions and philosophies that inspire her and make her an amazing person to work with.
Continue reading
Meet the CrowdComfort Team: George T. Neble
In this blog we interview George Neble, our Vice President of Sales, who shares the different hats he wears to support company development. Learn about his career, day to day life, and passions and philosophies that inspire him and make him an amazing person to work with.
Continue reading
Meet the CrowdComfort Team: Tenzin Dawa
In this blog we interview Tenzin Dawa, an implementation and customer success specialist, who shares deep insight on how to support the customer. Learn about her career, day to day life, and her passions and philosophies that inspire her and make her an amazing person to work with.
Continue reading
Data-Driven Solutions are Critical to Healthy School Environments - Dan Ringo
Data and being able to report in real-time the efforts of your front line custodians, facilities team members and vendor partners is critical to making best use of your budget, evaluating and retaining your top performers and ensuring vendor contracts are being fulfilled properly. From real-time cleaning insights across every room in every building in your school to tracking third party work like landscaping and snow removal, we need to lead with data in telling the story of our facilities teams hard work.
Continue reading
Meet the CrowdComfort Team: Drew Lapham
In this blog we interview Drew Lapham, Business Development Manager, who uses his education to know what's most important to potential clients. Learn about his career, day to day life, and his passions and philosophies that inspire him and make him an amazing person to work with.
Continue reading
Ensuring Convenience While Maintaining Safety and Security - James Segil
Technology plays a key role in creating seamless, modern experiences for occupants. By unifying systems and investing in cloud-based technology, businesses can create experiences that are more efficient at both the property management level and the user level.
Continue reading
Hybrid Reigns Supreme as Commercial Loans Struggle - July 2023
First off, this seems to be what many workers want. Back during the height of the pandemic, many surveys came out polling employees on how they actually preferred to work. While there were some differences in the results, the overall picture that emerged was clear. People missed the office, but not every day -- and particularly not on Mondays and Fridays.
Continue reading