INVESTMENTS NEWS CUSHMAN & WAKEFIELD ANNOUNCES CREATION OF RECOVERY READINESS TASK FORCE TO PREPARE BUSINESSES FOR POST-COVID-19 RECOVERY Today, we are announcing the formation of the Recovery Readiness Task Force (RRTF) to lead the development of best practices, products and partnerships to prepare clients for post-COVID-19 recovery. The virus will dictate when we can all eventually safely return to places of work and commerce, but the time to prepare is now, and our firm is well positioned to lead the way. Soon, the RRTF will be releasing a toolkit with step-by-step protocols for tenants and landlords to use as they begin planning the transition back to the workplace. This effort will build on best practices from Cushman & Wakefield’s experience in China, where we are already moving 10,000 companies and nearly a million workers back into more than 1,000 buildings through our joint venture with Vanke Service. Led by Cushman & Wakefield Global President John Forrester and comprised of experts from around the globe, the task force will include:
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• Bruce Mosler, Chairman, Global Broke rage, will lead the development of strategic public and private sector partnerships to align operating practices with public policy. • Despina Katsikakis, Head of Occupier Business Performance, will provide thought leadership on the future of work, while driving workplace strategies from the firm’s Experience Per SFTM tool that contains more than 2.7 million data points on the experience of remote workers pre-COVID-19. • Edward Law, Head of Operations, Vanke Service Cushman & Wakefield, will provide recovery best practices from China’s largest property and facili ties management provider with more than 20,000 employees and 800 MSF under management. • Paul Bedborough, Chief Executive, C&W Services, will focus on COVID-19 related commercial maintenance and cleaning best practices from the firm’s 14,000-employee, self-performed facili ties services business.
• Jeroen Lokerse, Head of Netherlands, will deliver build-out innovation from C&W Design & Build, the firm’s team of leading office architects and designers. • Adam Stanley, Chief Digital Officer and Chief Information Officer, will focus on data-driven best practices, along with the firm’s broad base of innovation partners for technology and virtual business operations. • Jason Tolliver, Head of New Commerce Research, will bring a unique perspective of retail and industrial real estate research to provide thought leadership to both landlords and tenants in the rapidly evolving retail and e-commerce sectors. • Kevin Thorpe, Chief Economist, will continue to produce thought leadership on COVID-19 impacts to the global and U.S. economy, capital markets, finance, leasing fundamentals, property and project management and factors that affect supply-demand. In addition, the RRTF will be focused on developing new products and solutions to help commercial landlords and tenants manage social distancing, including the exciting new design concept “Six Feet Office.” This design concept consists of elements that include a visually displayed unique foot traffic routing for each office to ensure employees maintain the recommended six feet apart for social distancing. Additional features include tangible products like clear shields between workstations and a set of simple and workable agreements and rules of conduct that place employee health and safety at the forefront of office culture. For more information, visit www.sixfeetoffice.com.
Outsourcing&More | May–June 2020
