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Sunnyvale, Calif. – July 16, 2020 – Enlighted, the leading building IoT platform provider, expands its award-winning IoT technology with workplace digital contact tracing to help employees return safely to manufacturing facilities, pharmaceutical labs, offices and more. Safe provides digital contact history for employees who self-report testing positive for COVID-19 to help reduce the spread of infection, keep healthy employees safe and productive, and eliminate the tedious,...

Over the next 9-18 months, real estate will look and operate differently than ever before. Unforeseen economic pressures and public health considerations will shape the new normal. How can global real estate leaders look beyond the current crisis to build long-term resilience? How can they propel their organizations forward and support their workforce through digital transformation? We gathered a group of experts from Siemens, Deloitte, Cushman Wakefield, Herman Miller, and Gensler to help...

New Surface Sensor to accelerate IoT adoption in buildings during COVID-19 and beyond. Sunnyvale, Calif. – July 9, 2020 – Enlighted, the leading building IoT platform provider, now offers its award-winning technology in a new Surface Sensor designed for quick and easy deployments at scale across enterprise portfolios. Enlighted’s newest sensor makes activity-based workspaces, conference rooms and commercial buildings smarter, safer, more efficient and improves the occupant...

Salesforce (NYSE: CRM) and Siemens announced a strategic partnership to develop a new workplace technology suite that will support businesses globally to safely reopen and deliver the future experience for physical workplaces. The partnership will combine Salesforce’s Work.com, powered by Customer 360, and Siemens’ Smart Infrastructure solutions, including Comfy and Enlighted, to orchestrate the processes, people and things that are essential to creating safe,...

Whether it’s new sanitation policies or social distancing requirements, organizations are actively preparing for the return of at least part of their workforce. But given the rise of anxieties amidst COVID-19, how are business leaders building trust with their employees?  Trust is essential for business continuity. Initially, to ensure employees feel safe enough to come back to the office. Longer term, to maintain productivity and company culture which in turn fuels collaboration and...

Over the coming months, a certain percentage of the workforce—whether it’s select teams, A/B groupings, or employees who require an office set-up—will be returning to workplaces around the globe. The successful reopening of the workplace and the smoothest-possible continuation of business-as-usual will depend on two key factors: how effective new policies and programming are in minimizing health and safety risks within the workplace, and how trusting employees are of said protocols.

With essential employees currently working across corporate campuses and real estate leaders around the world actively planning for what a “return-to-workplace” program will look like, the challenge of keeping employees informed, productive, and safe is top-of-mind. But with so much of the workforce in flux, how can real estate leaders close the information gap for employees? Read on for our recommendations on how to keep employees informed in a post-COVID-19 world. Meet employees where...

As real estate leaders plan for the gradual return of employees to the workplace, a structured re-entry program will be vital to ensuring the safety and wellbeing of the workforce. Employers will need to establish clear occupancy limits supported by strict scheduling, physical distancing, and health safety measures in order to reduce the density of people inside the office at any given time. To ensure business continuity at this stage of the “new normal,” corporate real estate leaders will...

We’re in the middle of the world’s largest work-from-home experiment, which will change how we work from offices forever.  What will the workplace look like in a post-COVID-19 world? If there’s one thing corporate leaders agree on, it’s that space analytics will become more crucial than ever to plan ahead and ensure business continuity. Here’s what we’re hearing from corporate real estate leaders and Comfy clients about what they expect in the new normal, and the data required...

Last week, leading design, architecture, engineering and planning firm HOK hosted a webinar featuring perspectives from HOK’s Director of WorkPlace Kay Sargent as well as our very own Erica Eaton, Chief of Strategy, who joined the conversation to discuss the role of technology in Returning to Work in a World of Heightened Sensitivity.  We caught up with Kay and Erica on some of the webinar’s key takeaways for you to put in your COVID-response toolkit.  Can you provide some background on...