{"id":11441,"date":"2023-09-01T11:53:51","date_gmt":"2023-09-01T11:53:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worx.pt\/?p=11441"},"modified":"2023-09-01T11:53:51","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T11:53:51","slug":"offices-quality-vs-quantity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worx.pt\/en\/offices-quality-vs-quantity\/","title":{"rendered":"Offices: Quality vs Quantity"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_11377\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11377\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11377 size-thumbnail lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/worx.pt\/wp-content\/uploads\/Bernardo-Zammit-e-Vasconcelos-1-e1693475568946-150x146.jpg\" alt=\"Bernardo Zammit e Vasconcelos\" width=\"150\" height=\"146\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 150px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 150\/146;\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11377\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bernardo Zammit e Vasconcelos, Head of Agency<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>If there&#8217;s one trend that the global office market has shown, it&#8217;s the <strong>growing interest of companies (and subsequently owners and investors) in quality workspaces<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Anyone who looks back five years ago (and fast-forward through the pandemic) and revisits the process of companies looking for premises will certainly remember that the main drivers were centred on <strong>maximising space occupancy<\/strong> &#8211; sometimes at the cost of overcrowding in open space &#8211; <strong>area efficiency, monthly costs, adaptation costs&#8230;<\/strong> In short, efficiency (in its broadest sense) characterised the main motivations and decisions in the process of changing premises.<\/p>\n<p>Today, we are accompanying companies in this same process and from the very first moment we find differences: the first contact now comes mainly from areas linked to HRM, whereas five years ago they came mainly from the financial or purchasing areas.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Following the process, <strong>the different motivations are evident: the quality of the spaces, the existence of sustainability and well-being certifications, the existence of quality outdoor spaces and support services, the interest of employees (current and future) in the location\/transport\/social life of the area, the look &amp; feel of the space&#8230;<\/strong> All these factors are now supplanting the previous efficiency matrices that supported the choice of a new office, to the delight of those who hire and the headache of those who close the accounts, because <strong>quality comes at a price and the upward trend in prime rents in Lisbon or the high fit-out costs for creating a <em>sexy<\/em> space for employees are examples of this reality.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Our market is adapting more and more quickly to global market trends<\/strong> and this chain of added value (in real estate and human resources) can and should be understood as a necessary and inexorable growing pain, but above all, a positive one.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Opinion article by <strong>Bernardo Zammit e Vasconcelos<\/strong>, Head of Agency at WORX Real Estate Consultants, published in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.magazineimobiliario.com\/reflexoes\/escritorios-qualidade-vs-quantidade\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Magazine Imobili\u00e1rio<\/a> on 22<sup>nd<\/sup> August 2023<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If there&#8217;s one trend that the global office market has shown, it&#8217;s the growing interest of companies (and subsequently owners and investors) in quality workspaces. &nbsp; Anyone who looks back five years ago (and fast-forward through the pandemic) and revisits the process of companies looking for premises will certainly remember that the main drivers were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":11363,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-property-management","category-real-estate-market"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/worx.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/worx.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/worx.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worx.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worx.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/worx.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11441\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worx.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/worx.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worx.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worx.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}