Feb 23, 2021
This article originally appeared in the BOMA Ottawa Commercial Space Directory. Read the full publication here.
Please, no sympathy cards; the office is not dead. Rather, it’s in the process of redefining itself after tenants were forced to abruptly abandon their spaces for the safety of home before returning with new operating models and expectations of modern workspaces.
The world’s largest impromptu work-from-home experiment has revealed that commuting to the office each and every day is far from the only model. Local commercial real estate experts say the workplace was already headed toward a combination of remote work and office collaboration, and that its evolution was merely fast-tracked by the pandemic.
Feb 23, 2021
This article originally appeared in the BOMA Ottawa Commercial Space Directory. Read the full publication here.
Please, no sympathy cards; the office is not dead. Rather, it’s in the process of redefining itself after tenants were forced to abruptly abandon their spaces for the safety of home before returning with new operating models and expectations of modern workspaces.
The world’s largest impromptu work-from-home experiment has revealed that commuting to the office each and every day is far from the only model. Local commercial real estate experts say the workplace was already headed toward a combination of remote work and office collaboration, and that its evolution was merely fast-tracked by the pandemic.
Feb 16, 2021
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At the tender age of 22, Jason Tasse had been working outside at a lumber yard to pay for his undergraduate degree at Carleton University when he learned Lee Valley Tools was looking for seasonal employees to help with its Christmas holiday rush.
With winter coming, he liked the idea of holding down an indoor job and had heard good things about the Ottawa-based, family-owned Canadian business, which sells hardware, woodworking, gardening and kitchen tools.
“If you really worked hard, they’d keep you full-time,” said Tasse, who first got hired for a warehouse job. “My objective was to stay warm, work hard and keep the job.”