Personnel Today and Computer Weekly reported that Tim Ringo, head of IBM Human Capital Management, said that IBM could reduce its workforce by 299,000 down to 100,000 by 2017. IBM would then rehire the workers, on an as-needed basis, as contractors for specific projects and use “crowdsourcing” as a vehicle [...]
Local budget shortfalls are driving city governments to take desperate steps with significant implications on commercial real estate values. Despair can sometimes take unexpected forms. On one hand, conservative cities in Texas are raising taxes, while San Francisco is rumored to be slashing its welfare budget. The end of the [...]
New York, NY – Members of the ALLIANCE Business Centers NETWORK descended on the city of New York for its 17th Annual Strategic Summit October 21-23, 2009. This year’s conference was especially important, as the Flexible Office Space Industry starts to see several signs of economic recovery and prepares itself [...]
Traditional Office Space is going the way of the Selectric. It is still there, but no one uses it. The office of the future is mobile, ubiquitous, and on-demand. Landlords, be warned. This will radically change the commercial real estate landscape. Few office space providers are prepared for this tsunami [...]
