Hi, this is Greg Kielstrom. Welcome to season three of the Agile World, where we discuss customer

employee experience, organizational and workforce transformation, and how business can adapt and

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book, The Agile Workforce, now available on Amazon and other retailers. My name is Greg Kielstrom,

and I'm the host of the Agile World podcast. Welcome to a special episode of the show,

brought to you in partnership with Arlington Economic Development, where we discuss issues related

to the workforce, the role of place in the future of work, and the role of the creative sector in

a larger business context. We call this return on creativity. Today we're going to talk about the

return to the office, and how it is causing companies to need to be nimble and adaptive in their

approach to planning their office needs for everything from the next several months to the next

several years. Tell me and discuss this topic. I'd like to welcome David Cornbrooks,

Senior Managing Director, Savils North America. David, welcome to the show.

Thanks for having me, Greg, excited to be here. Yeah, looking forward to talking with you.

So let's get started. Why don't you tell us a little bit about your role and what Sevilles does?

Sure. So I am a real estate advisor at Savils. Sevilles is a global real estate company,

and in the US, we're exclusively focused on advising organizations on their occupancy strategies.

And that's everything from strategic planning to workplace and workforce, consulting,

to negotiating a transaction, finding a building, and ultimately delivering the space

through project management. And it's been an interesting 15 months. A lot of what we've

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