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  • OSCRE Providing Industry Open Access To Its Real Estate Data Standards

    Facility Executive

    OSCRE International, a non-profit organization focused on the benefit of real estate standards and data governance for the entire real estate asset life cycle, is providing free access to the OSCRE Industry Data Model™ (IDM).  The IDM is a tool developed to improve data integrity, transparency, agile response time, and enable better insights to inform better outcomes for organizations that have struggled with collecting data from disparate systems.

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  • Office Owners Consider More Expensive Upgrades As Slow Return To Work Continues

    Bisnow

    The return to the workplace has been slower than many office owners expected, leading them to consider costlier measures to make employees feel comfortable entering their buildings.

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  • What we did after Pi Labs accelerator

    PlaceTech

    Two months ago, we presented a demo of our 3D showcasing solution for the first time for an audience of hundreds of people. This was Pi Labs Demo Day 2020, the final event that marked our intense journey in the acceleration programme.

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  • Riff raises $1.5M seed led by Balderton for its ‘voice-first’ chat tool for remote working

    TechCrunch

    Riff, a London-based startup developing what it describes as a “voice-first” chat tool for remote working, has raised $1.5 million in seed funding, prior to a full launch next year.

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  • Out Of Office: A Survey of Our New Work Lives

    The New York Times

    Yellowed newspapers. A mouse who met its end on a glue trap. Wilted plants. These were the scenes we photographed this summer at three New York City offices — including our own — amid a pandemic that has left millions of people out of work and millions more working from home. So what does the future hold for the office and the workers who once inhabited it?

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  • ‘We are having rolling nervous breakdowns’

    Politico

    Many workers are desperate to get back to the office. In Zoom meetings and socially distant conference rooms all over Wall Street, senior executives are trying to map out a post-Covid world. Or at least a late-Covid world. A big piece of these discussions is figuring out how many of the tens of millions of employees currently working remotely need to return to the office.

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  • Xos Trucks raises $20M to put more of its electric commercial trucks on the road

    TechCrunch

    Commercial electric vehicle startup Xos Trucks  has raised $20 million, funding it will use to ramp up production ahead of potential new demand fueled by a landmark emissions rule adopted by California that will require more than half of all trucks sold in the state to be zero-emissions by 2035.

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  • Airbnb files confidential paperwork to go public

    Axios

    Airbnb said Wednesday that it confidentially submitted paperwork to the Securities and Exchange Commission to go public. Why it matters per Axios’ Dan Primack: Airbnb had been widely expected to go public earlier in the year, but paused when the pandemic incapacitated global hospitality. What’s still unknown is how much the company has rebounded since this spring and whether investors will effectively give the company a mulligan for 2020….

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  • Remote Work Forces Companies to Get Creative With New Perks

    Wall Street Journal

    Nimbus Therapeutics used to cater lunch for its entire staff three times a week at its Cambridge, Mass., headquarters—a hip place where the taxidermied office moose has its own Instagram account. Employees got plenty of branded swag, and enjoyed perks such as company-paid spa treatments.

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  • Biggest U.S. Mall Owner Shows Two Sides: Innovator and Traditionalist

    Wall Street Journal

    Mall owner Simon Property Group is pursuing an unorthodox business strategy, smashing the foundation of the traditional industry model on the one hand while trying to glue certain elements of it back together with the other. Simon has been in talks with Amazon.com Inc. to convert department stores into warehouse distribution hubs, say people familiar with the matter, an innovation that could plug large holes filled by ailing tenants such as Sears Holdings Corp. and J.C. Penney Co. But the move w…

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