Ah, the federal government—where policy priorities often collide in a complex balancing act. The latest showdown? The return-to-office push versus the effort to shrink the federal real estate footprint.

On one hand, agencies are directing (or nudging… or shoving) employees back into office...

With the rise of work-from-home (WFH) and hybrid schedules, you might expect the demand for government conference rooms to hit historical lows. Surprisingly, the reduction in daily in-office traffic has only magnified the same challenges faced before the pandemic. Even with fewer employees on-site,...

Businesses nationwide are developing plans to return to normalcy – or something approaching it. “Normalcy,” in this case, means the workplace will once again become a busy setting where employees perform their job functions, public visits, and professional interactions occur.

What is the agile workplace? Is it just another business buzzword (or “buzzphrase”) destined to drift off into the land of once-used buzzwords, along with value-added, paradigm shift, wheelhouse, stovepipe, bandwidth, incentivize, mousetrap, scope creep, and “content is king?” Maybe. But I would...