WHAT'S YOUR WORK FIT?

How Do You Help a Client Pick a Workplace Footprint? In this clip from our latest WHAT'S YOUR WORK FIT? live show, our co-host and MorteVita (mortevita.com) Managing Principal Francis Saele asked Savills Vice Chairman Gabe Marans to describe the considerations that now factor in selecting optimal workplace space. Joining in on the conversation were WHAT'S YOUR WORK FIT? Executive Producer and Host Dan Smolen and co-host and CEO of LiquidSpace Mark Gilbreath. When mission and culture align in the workplace to support people doing work that is a wonderful part of the day, that's also a work fit. And when that happens, our best days lie ahead. Links to the full episode, platformed on LinkedIn and also the What's Your Work Fit? YouTube Channel, are provided in comments. #futureofwork #workplace #tenants #CRE #RTO #careerpodcast

What are Workplace Tenants Looking For? In this clip from our latest WHAT'S YOUR WORK FIT? live show, Savills Vice Chairman Gabe Marans says that workplace tenants seek a "shared sense of mission and, ultimately, how that translates into a strong culture." When mission and culture align to support people doing work that is a wonderful part of the day, that's also a work fit. And when that happens, our best days lie ahead. Links to the full episode, platformed on LinkedIn and also the What's Your Work Fit? YouTube Channel, are provided in comments. #futureofwork #workplace #tenants #CRE #careerpodcast

Does your work fit involve running a boring business? While they are not often cutting edge and sexy, so-called boring businesses can be more stable to run, and sooner to attain cash-flow-positive status, than start-ups. There's a growing trend where career professionals are leaving corporate life for the opportunity to run boring businesses like car washes, laundromats, and tool and die manufacturing companies. Prior to my entry into the world of executive recruitment, I gave serious thought to buying and running a full-service car wash. But my lack of business administration experience, and financing requirements that were north of $1 million, dissuaded me from the opportunity. And yet, a growing cadre of ambitious mid-career corporate escapees are energized by the upsides of running a boring business. In comments, you'll find a link to a recent article from The New York Times that describes the journey one couple took to running their own boring but successful business. When work becomes a wonderful part of the day, that's a work fit. And when that happens, our best days lie ahead. #futureofwork #workfit #boringbusiness #entrepreneur #careerpodcast Image credit: Canva

WHAT'S YOUR WORK FIT? goes LIVE TODAY, March 12, 2025, at 12PM Eastern Time. Do join us! Our guest will be Savills Vice Chairman Gabe Marans. We'll lead off the show by asking Gabe: What Are Workplace Tenants Looking For? Joining the conversation on the What's Your Work Fit in the Workplace? Series are our co-hosts: LiquidSpace founder and CEO Mark Gilbreath and Mortevita (mortevita.com) Managing Principal Francis Saele. Watch this video clip to understand why this discussion impacts everyone in the modern workplace. Our best days lie ahead. #futureofwork #workplace #CRE #officeleases #careerpodcast

WHAT'S YOUR WORK FIT?'s new season begins this Wednesday, March 12, 2025 with our guest, Gabe Marans. Gabe is Vice Chairman of global CRE leader Savills; he is an expert in office space utilization. We'll ask him: What Are Workplace Tenants Looking For? Our conversation will be much more than a whip-around discussion of square footage trends; it will delve deep into the attributes that workplace tenants seek for their spaces, to create better engagement and employee experience or #EX. Joining me on this important What's Your Work Fit in the Workplace? Series discussion are our co-hosts: LiquidSpace CEO Mark Gilbreath and Mortevita (mortevita.com) Managing Principal Francis Saele. We go live this Wednesday, March 12, 2025, at 12PM Eastern Time (US) and hope that you'll join us to be a part of the show audience and to submit your workplace-related questions directly to Gabe. Use the links in comments below to join to the WHAT'S YOUR WORK FIT? LIVE SHOW on LinkedIn, and, on the What's Your Work Fit? Channel on YouTube. Our new season of live shows is designed to help you achieve better work and workplace experiences, and to make work that you do a wonderful part of the day doing other wonderful things. That's a work fit. And when we achieve it, our best days lie ahead. Image credit: Canva #futureofwork #modernwork #workplace #workfit #CRE #officespace #careerpodcast

The Covid pandemic lockdowns started five years ago next week. I had flown home from a podcast convention in Orlando. And the first thing I did, upon return, was to drive to Wegmans Food Markets to stock up on groceries. Based on the photo, my wife and I arrived a tad late. The start of the lockdown was super stressful. Three of us full-time occupied just 1,200 square feet of living space, five of us including the dogs. My daughter, having started her second semester at college weeks prior suddenly had to pack up and move back home. Her college experience turned upside-down. Within days, we three were doing everything on Zoom: my school teacher wife resumed her classes with gifted students; my daughter her college courses, and; I pivoted from audio-first podcasts to live and prerecorded video. What is more, my wife and I started selling our vintage clothing on live video shows; for at least the first two years of the pandemic, that became a major revenue source for our vintage clothing and accessories brand. Within a week of the lockdown's onset, I saw a pattern emerge: career professionals were rising to the novel challenges of remote work. And, within weeks, companies reported impressive productivity gains from their remote workers. On so many levels, the pandemic was a workplace awakening. I'd long believed that career professionals, given the opportunity, would seek out their own work fit. But the pandemic scaled that pursuit. Knowledge workers who'd never questioned their five-day commute to the collocation reported that, working remotely, they: ? gained one or two extra hours of sleep during each work day; ? recouped thousands of dollars in out-of-pocket commuting costs; ? discovered that they could break up the continuous 8-hour day and still be on-the-job effective, and; ? were more engaged with the family members. Local animal shelters adopted out millions of cats and dogs. Five years out, we still value many of the positive outcomes that Covid-forced remote work afforded us. It took the pandemic to bring work fit to our career consciousness. And five years later, as c-suites force #RTO, the desires of career professionals, to make work a wonderful part of the day doing other wonderful things...and not the all-consuming time-suck of the day...remain strong. When workplaces codify the pandemic-era changes we've come to enjoy, when they support work fit, they will extend the lifetime value (LTV) of their best hires doing #modernwork. And when that happens, our best days lie ahead. Our new season of WHAT'S YOUR WORK FIT? live shows begins at 12PM Eastern Time on Wednesday, March 12, 2025 with guest Gabe Marans, the Vice Chairman of global CRE leader Savills. We'll ask Gabe: What Are Workplace Tenants Looking For? Image credit: Dan Smolen, March 13, 2020 #futureofwork #workplace #workfit #covid #careerpodcast

Is there a private sector future for fired federal workers? Overnight, word spread that the new administration wants to eliminate the U.S. Department of Education and dismiss some 70,000 workers from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. Already many thousands of knowledge workers, who built careers in federal government and possess deep subject matter expertise in thousands of fields of study and industries, are out of work. Our question: is there a private sector future for fired federal workers? The average citizen likely has never given thought to the kinds of people--with specialized knowledge, training, and experience--who do knowledge work for the federal government. And that is because these knowledge workers toil behind the scenes. But name a field of study and there's likely a knowledge worker (or several) who provide, through their government department or agency, scholarship to companies, NGOs, and educational institutions. Like what? ? USDA: sustainable agriculture research and education ? US Department of Transportation: "Smart City" mass transit ideation ? Small Business Administration: Boots-to-Business and Thrive Emerging Leader business establishment programs ? National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA): desalination and "red flag" fire-forecast improvement projects, and ? US Department of Education: Innovative Approaches to Literacy (IAL) programs ... and so on. Talent who built their careers in government don't think like their knowledge working counterparts in the private sector. And the departments that they served were never profit-seeking. Federal workers are the furthest thing from boot-strapped entrepreneurs; people who do federal government knowledge work are most often motivated by helping others, by furthering knowledge and understanding--not by money. But could a discharged federal knowledge worker reimagine themselves in the private sector? Aided by Agentic AI career tools, it is becoming more likely than not that many of them could reemerge in the private sector. ?? Some might pivot easily to work in the ranks of private companies ?? Others might establish themselves as successful independent contractors (1099s) to hand-select their clientele and manage their own work fit ?? And still others might find ways of becoming start-up entrepreneurs. In 2025, we are going to see thousands of specialized talent reinvent themselves for a post-government-work future. And when they turn their federal workplace dismissal into a brilliant next career act doing the work that they love, then our best days lie ahead. See you live at 12PM Eastern Time on March 12, 2025 for the premiere of WHAT'S YOUR WORK FIT?'s new season! Our guest will be Savills Vice Chairman Gabe Marans; we will ask Gabe: What Are Workplace Tenants Looking For? Image credit: Fired worker, Canva #futureofwork #workplace #workfit #federalworkforce #careerpodcast

Will Agentic AI in the workplace render us better workers? Our frequent guest on WHAT'S YOUR WORK FIT?, Managing Director at JLL Ram Srinivasan, is a subject-matter expert on Agentic AI in the workplace. And each week, Ram reports on new, dazzling breakthroughs from the players in the AI space. One year ago this week, WHAT'S YOUR WORK FIT? began focusing on AI and its potential for workplace productivity. OpenAI's news of the day in early March 2024 was of how its ChatGPT platform turned well-written prompts into better results than one could extract from even the best search engines. From early March 2024 forward, it became evident that Agentic AI platforms were about to turn the modern workplace upside down. But, what wasn't clear, one year ago, was how. Sixty years ago, Intel Corporation co-founder Gordon Moore posited Moore's Law which stated that the number of transistors on a microchip (aka computing power) would double about every two years. In 1965, that was earth-shattering. But, in 2025, AI has rendered Moore's Law useless. Now, productivity seems to scale by the day. And the scale is exponential. What we know in March 2025 is that AI and the modern workplace are becoming one. And ambitious talent are now employing Agentic AI to do time-consuming and often repetitive mental work so that they are liberated to create, to innovate. In his latest LinkedIn post, Ram offered these real market examples of how Anthropic's agentic AI is already helping to do that: ? Replit's integration of [Anthropic's] Claude for code drove 10X revenue growth ?Novo Nordisk slashed clinical report writing from 12 weeks to 10 minutes ?Thomson Reuters CoCounsel uses Claude to assist tax professionals ?Zoom, Snowflake, and Pfizer use Claude to transform their operations ?Claude now powers Amazon Alexa+, bringing advanced AI to millions of households It's only been 12 months since OpenAI's announcement shook the world. In 2025, Workplace AI's impact will continue to scale. And later this season on WHAT'S YOUR WORK FIT?, Ram will return to the live show to tell us how, where, why, and for whom that AI scale will benefit. Meantime, it behooves us all to become conversant in all the latest Agentic AI innovations in our workplaces. For when we are able to harness the new found potential, our best days lie ahead. Note: Image based on our prompt was rendered on DALL.E ChatGPT. #futureofwork #workplace #agenticAI #AI #careerpodcast

Why do men forfeit billions of dollars in paid family leave from work? Many companies offer their talent paid family leave. And it can help men particularly when a big life event happens to them, such as the arrival of a newborn. That benefit doesn't stop at helping their families with big milestones like baby's room set up and those important first visits to the pediatrician. Actually, it provides critical bonding time for new dads and their new arrivals. When it's offered, new moms typically squeeze every last ounce of benefit out of paid family leave. But dads, either out of lack of awareness or stress about missing work and workplace engagement, often forego this important benefit. According to a new report from Moms First and McKinsey & Company: ?? Only 2 out of 5 parents use their paid family leave allowances ?? And, they leave $6,000-10,000 worth of paid leave unused. So, why do men forego this important benefit? Moms First and McKinsey cite this prevalent belief among men they surveyed: "[they] don’t need to take leave if [their partners] are taking it." That's not good. I'm hopeful that Moms First's and McKinsey's insight will help to increase workplace awareness so that more men gladly accept and use the paid leave that they are offered, because it can help them to achieve work fit where work becomes a wonderful part of the day doing other wonderful things...like experiencing many of baby's FIRSTS. And when that happens, our best days lie ahead. A link to the new Moms First and McKinsey report is in comments. See you live at 12PM Eastern Time on March 12, 2025 for the premiere of WHAT'S YOUR WORK FIT?'s new season! Image credit: Timea Gal, 2002. #paidfamilyleave #workfit #futureofwork #workplace #careerpodcast