Workplace Wellness and the Office Sector

NEW YORK—Wellness in the workplace is growing in importance as companies increasingly focus on attracting and retaining talent, gaining a competitive edge and providing the optimum office environment for their employees. Developers and building owners alike are concentrating on accommodating wellness features into building design in addition to making them as energy efficient and environmentally sound as possible. To find out more about how the commercial real estate community is working with building designers and developers to provide wellness solutions for tenants, we spoke exclusively with experts at GlobeSt.com Thought Leader Colliers International to find out what they are noticing about workplace well-being, and how Colliers is helping to provide solutions for top companies across the US.

Wellness can give a company a tangible competitive edge in the global marketplace, executive managing director of workplace strategy and innovation for the Colliers corporate solutions team Keith Perske points out. “Being innovative is a key competitive goal in most companies, and we are finding that many of the actions that promote wellness also contribute to creativity and innovation.”