How Company Culture Drives Real Estate Decisions at Sensei Labs

Insight into a deal to rightsize an office for hybrid working

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"People have been taking a very static approach to workspace...trying to jam the old paradigm into the new world and it doesn't work like that."?- Mark Goh

Jay Goldman, Co-Founder & Chief Sensei at?Sensei Labs?and?Mark Goh, Founder & CEO of?Clearspace?join?Bold?Founder?Caleb Parker?for the 5th episode of?Season 6?to discuss how company culture drives real estate decisions at Sensei Labs.

We discuss?both sides of a real estate deal with Clearspace as the flex partner and Sensei Labs as the office customer. Jay explains how Sensei Labs came to the decision to slash their space requirements by nearly half and move into a new 7,000 square foot office space in Toronto. He goes on to share how the company worked with Mark and the Clearspace team to rightsize for hybrid working.

Jay is a New York Times Bestselling Author and shares his insights on how to nurture a strong company culture with teams who aren't in the office every day. Mark shares insights on how Clearspace pivoted to meet the needs in the market before the pandemic hit.?

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Value Bombs:

• If you have a fixed idea of company culture, you can't maintain it because that world doesn't exist anymore.?- Jay Goldman
• On any given day we will have two or three teams in the office on a rotating schedule that we put out least a month in advance to give people an opportunity to plan childcare and all of those other pieces.?- Jay Goldman
• People have been taking a very static approach to workspace...trying to jam the old paradigm into the new world and it doesn't work like that.?- Mark Goh
• Building your space in the past was complex and cost prohibitive, which is why many companies turn to a flex face or coworking product. We offer this in-between option.?- Mark Goh
• We use data and a level of precision that's not widely available in designing construction, and it's really taken the same methodology that Jay would use running Sensei. That type of startup data-driven approach, just isn't applied to our industry.?- Mark Goh
• Reversible decisions should be made quickly. Irreversible decisions we need to really think through and be intentional about.?- Jay Goldman
• The last thing I want to do is get stuck in a lease that's no longer serving the needs that we have.?- Jay Goldman

Listen to the full episode:?(press play)

Resources:

• TSK Documentary
• TSK website
• Sensei Labs
• The Decoded Company? (Jay's book on Amazon)
• Clearspace
• Sensei Labs Cultural Values (Career Page)
• Medium?
• How I Built This Podcast (Apple)

Shout Outs:

1. Dave Cairns
2. Guy Raz

Jay Goldman (L), Caleb Parker (Middle), Mark Goh (Right)

About Our Guests:

Jay Goldman

https://www.dhirubhai.net/in/jaygoldman/?

Jay is Co-Founder and Chief Sensei at?Sensei Labs. His company supports Fortune 500 companies around the world with their collaborative work management platform, which is used to run business critical projects, including transformations, M&A, product launches and procurement operations.

Jay co-authored the New York Times bestseller?The Decoded Company?and has written for publications like the Harvard Business Review. He speaks often with teams and companies across the globe about the future of work, including companies like TEDx, NASA, Harvard Business School, Google and Twitter.

Mark Goh

https://www.dhirubhai.net/in/gohmark/?

Mark is a seasoned entrepreneur and has both raised venture capital and bootstrapped companies prior to launching his own start-ups. Mark worked for several years in private equity. Mark launched Clearspace to create awesome offices for growing companies.

He's created a way to simplify the office interior construction process for landlords and tenants as a one-stop shop from design to move in. Through their technology driven approach they're able to deliver cost-effective beautiful office experience without compromising on speed and quality.

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Sponsors

Headline Sponsor: TSK

TSK creates inspiring workplaces for some of the world’s biggest brands across the UK and Ireland, They’ve been working for 25 years to deliver the best employee experiences and the vision of their clients. Not only do they create great places to work, TSK share workplace content every week from the latest data to inspiring spaces they’ve designed and built. You can read their latest insights at?www.tskgroup.co.uk?or check out their?LinkedIn?and?Instagram?pages to become a follower, fan and friend.

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