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Desperately Seeking Certainty:
WConsiderations for Office Landlords and TenanTs By Linda Koffman, Michael Manzi, and James Porter – Smith Gambrell Russell
hen it comes to business, of accuracy the scope of changes that will emerge much time and money in commercial real estate. The changes depend on is devoted to limiting variables of human behavior that do not always reflect uncertainty, and this may reasoned thinking. The decisions to be made in be especially true in the real the near future by executives, administrators and estate business. Justice employees will arise from a variety of causes, such as Oliver Wendell Holmes said, a desire to return to the community of the workplace “The longing for certainty ... that cannot be duplicated by videoconferencing, the
is in every human mind. But certainty is generally desire to remain distant from urban centers, hesitancy illusion.” And so, it was for office owners and tenants to use crowded trains, planes, buses and elevators, as the impact of COVID-19 began to take effect in and a reluctance to resume lengthy commutes. March 2020. Employer mandates are also varied: some want a
Although the severity of the pandemic seems to be subsiding, it is too early to predict with any degree
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total return to the office, some agree to continuing working from home for now, and others are trying
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