“ COMPANIES WILL FAVOUR A HUB-AND- SPOKE MODEL ”
Landlords are ideally positioned to cater to the needs of their commercial clients . But Brown hastens to add that clients first need to initiate conversations with employees about their requirements .
“ A lot of times , larger companies don ’ t have a discussion with their employees or fail to do an employee survey ,” he says . “ But it ’ s important to find out who wants to come back to the office and who is more comfortable with doing a hybrid flex model , either at their central office or with other flexible office options around town , we need to promote that to our clients so that they understand how much space they really need as they go forward .”
“ I don ’ t think that we ’ re going to go back to a time where every single person is coming into a centralised office , especially for larger companies .”
162 OCT 2022 SA Real Estate Investor Magazine