WELL vs Fitwel: The Battle for Workplace Wellness
If you’re considering how to design your space for the health and well-being of occupants, you’ve likely encountered WELL and Fitwel. Despite the banter about competition, we’re not-so-secretly thrilled to have two robust frameworks to use when designing real estate solutions for people.
GRESB Results: A Guide to Interpreting and Improving Your Score
For many of us ESG and reporting nerds, September and October are a time of great excitement and anticipation as we await the results of our GRESB submissions. Flashbacks from earlier in the summer ensue, and we are transported to July 1, exhausted and obsessively reviewing GRESB submissions one last time.
Greenbuild 2022: A Quick Guide
We’re thrilled for Greenbuild, the world’s largest green building conference, to come to San Francisco this November 1-4! For the 20th year running, Greenbuild will convene thought leaders and practitioners across the building industry to re-imagine what it means to build green, going beyond buildings to create greener communities, better workplaces, equitable programs, new sustainable solutions, and more.
Choice: Because We All Need a Little Guidance Sometimes
This month in our Wit and Wisdom for Well-Being series: Choice! Good designers give choices that make you successful no matter what you choose. Let’s be honest, there are individuals making design decisions at organizations who don’t even make their own wardrobe decisions. So, it’s important that as we think about the choices we provide to our stakeholders, we give them the right variety and clear, concise, and consistent information to help them be successful in whatever choice they make.
Passion: Because We Are All Motivated By Something
People are more driven by a sense of purpose than we often assume. Think about those that work for non-profit organizations, those who donate time and resources to help others in need, even parents that sacrifice their own needs to ensure their children want for nothing. This sense of purpose is often what motivates people each day, what drives them to do their best work and keeps them engaged even when they could earn higher compensation elsewhere.
Well-Being Defined: Because We Are All Human
The World Health Organization (WHO) defines Health as “a state of physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity,” meaning that if a person is not “sick” it doesn’t necessarily mean that they are “healthy” or “well” because there’s always room for improvement.
Supporting the Modern Workforce: Strategies for Success
The pandemic has served as a catalyst for a paradigm shift in how we work. The needs of the workforce today compared to those of employees before the pandemic are simply different. At Stok, we deeply care for our team members. The experience of these past two years demonstrated that we could do more to support team members through challenges created and accelerated by the pandemic. We want to share how we’ve approached these challenges in ways that align with Stok’s culture and core values and allow team members to thrive.
Stok Releases The Sustainable Real Estate Program Handbook: How to Deliver on Climate Commitments and ESG Goals by Integrating Sustainability Into Your Real Estate Portfolio
For most companies, real estate is an underutilized strategic lever for driving positive performance across a company’s ESG ratings. With a goal of accelerating the adoption of sustainable and equitable real estate solutions, sustainability and high-performance building services provider Stok has published The Sustainable Real Estate Program Handbook.
Corporate Real Estate’s Role in ESG: Scaling High-Performance Buildings by Leveraging an Effective Real Estate Program
If there’s one single topic that every corporate real estate professional should have on their mind in 2021, it’s ESG. ESG encompasses the environmental, social, and governance performance of a company and has a strong correlation to the company’s financial performance and potential for long-term value creation.
Uber Mission Bay World Headquarters Named Finalist in Fast Company 2021 Innovation by Design Awards
We’re thrilled to share that Uber’s Mission Bay World Headquarters has been honored in Fast Company’s 2021 Innovation by Design Awards in the Real Estate category.