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Giles Fuchs in UKNG: The office is essential for exhausted workers

With each day that the pandemic persists, the UK’s productivity is suffering. In fact, a record fall in output per worker of 19.9% in the last year is staggering evidence of this. Employees working remotely are demotivated, burned out and lacking the many benefits of office work.

Writing for UK News Group , OSiT CEO, Giles Fuchs discusses the UK’s home working productivity crisis and the tole it is taking on both workers mental wellbeing and career development opportunities.

Indeed, in 2018, 68% of workers who changed jobs did so due to lack of learning opportunities in...

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What to expect in the office market: Giles Fuchs in Property Week

A shift to remote working during the Covid-19 pandemic has shown the importance of the office for businesses and their employees and its essential role as a hub for collaboration, community and development. So, what can we expect in the office market as we enter 2021?

Writing for Property Week, Giles Fuchs argues that the pandemic is far from the end of the workplace, but that what businesses want is shifting towards greater flexibility around lease lengths and space commitment, which flexible workspace is primed to cater to.

However, as a third national lockdown continues...

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London needs offices to thrive: Giles Fuchs in City A.M.

Are cities dead? There are plenty who think so – but Britain should hope they’re wrong.

Writing for City A.M ., OSiT CEO Giles Fuchs argued that both the Prime Minister and the Chancellor, Rishi Sunak, are right to believe that businesses will once again return to the office. For the Chancellor, this belief is underpinned by our social nature as human beings – the craving to be part of a collaborative community on which, in part, the appeal of the office rests.

However, Giles argues that a return to the office is not just going to be an inevitable outcome of our social...

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The future of flex: Niki Fuchs in Estates Gazette

What does the financial uncertainty of the pandemic mean for the future of flexible workspace?

In a recent comment piece for Estates Gazette, Niki Fuchs, Managing Director at OSiT, outlines her thoughts on what she believes the future holds for flex in light of WeWork’s reported 2019 loses and the ‘material impact’ that COVID-19 has had for its business.

Considering the factors that have placed WeWork in this difficult position, including its over-expansion and dependence on high occupancy, Niki argues that this news by no means signals the end for flexible workspace....

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PM forecasts buoyant return to the office

Will the office market make a recovery post-Covid-19?

As featured in Property Week , Facilitate Magazine , and Allwork.Space , CEO of Office Space in Town, Giles Fuchs, commented on why the Prime Minister is right to expect a surge in workers returning to the office following the pandemic is behind us.

In OSiT’s recent survey into the impacts of remote working, 29% of people cited loneliness as a main disadvantage of working from home, with a quarter reporting increased anxiety and 37% struggling to un-plug from their work. It is clear that remote working continues to have...

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