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As companies wrestle with the return-to-work question, VTS is arming landlords with a new tool: data that captures fluctuating supply and demand in real time. The New York startup said VTS Data, which launched today, is a first-of-its-kind product for investors and owners, who have historically relied on anecdotal information and dated market reports.

Some 53% of larger organizations plan to reduce the size of their office space and more than three quarters will increase work flexibility. Almost all of the respondents were uncomfortable returning to work because they fear contracting the virus, the poll found.

After tourists stopped arriving this spring, the 607-room property transformed into housing for doctors and nurses treating coronavirus patients. When they checked out, the high-rise began offering blocks of rooms as office space. And with its reopening this month, the InterContinental will again play office landlord, this time on a suite-by-suite basis.

From his home base on the Hawaiian island of Kauai, Anton Andryeyev is running Twitter’s efforts to chase Russian bots and other rogue actors off the platform. A year ago, he traded his office in the company’s San Francisco headquarters for this tropical home office 2,000 miles away, surrounded by stand-up paddle boards and a monitor large enough to see his entire 25-pers...

On our journey to become carb...

In February, Bisnow sat down with Dean Hopkins, newly installed chief operations officer of Oxford Properties, on the 29th floor of the Cheesegrater skyscraper in the City of London, to talk about how the company planned to overhaul the way it runs its business. Since then, things have changed pretty fast. And the time frame for that overhaul has accelerated faster than Hopkins could have antic...

SEATTLE (AP) — Amazon has introduced new palm recognition technology in a pair of Seattle stores and sees a broader potential audience in stadiums, offices and other gated or secured locations. Customers at the stores near Amazon’s campus in Washington can flash a palm for entry into secured areas and buy goods.

Smart cities are highlighted as one of nine key trends capable of generating growth opportunities from Covid-19, according to a study by Frost & Sullivan. Its analysis predicts that the sector could generate significant business opportunities with a market value of $2.46 trillion by 2025. Among the others listed are connected living, connected work, human augmentation and digital health.

Google CEO Sundar Pichai said last week that the company was making changes to its physical spaces to better support employees in a future Pichai said would include "hybrid models" of work.