Like retail, offices are expected to execute a phased-style reopening. While strategies for re-opening office spaces and inviting employees to return to work have focused on business owners and office occupiers, property owners and landlords will certainly play an important role. According a recent workplace report from CBRE that surveyed business owners’ plans to re-open, both landlords and tenants will need to collaborate on solutions to create safe spaces for workers.

“The COVID-19 pandemic has introduced challenges that require timely, open and collaborative solutions for building owners and their tenants,” Karen Ellzey, executive managing director of CBRE’s reopening the world’s workplaces taskforce, tells GlobeSt.com. “Both parties are responsible for monitoring and implementing the latest safety guidance and orders from relevant authorities, establishing plans that account for them, communicating those plans to their constituencies, and enforcing any policies put in place.”

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Kelsi Maree Borland

Kelsi Maree Borland is a freelance journalist and magazine writer based in Los Angeles, California. For more than 5 years, she has extensively reported on the commercial real estate industry, covering major deals across all commercial asset classes, investment strategy and capital markets trends, market commentary, economic trends and new technologies disrupting and revolutionizing the industry. Her work appears daily on GlobeSt.com and regularly in Real Estate Forum Magazine. As a magazine writer, she covers lifestyle and travel trends. Her work has appeared in Angeleno, Los Angeles Magazine, Travel and Leisure and more.

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