On September 17th, 2020 Aura hosted the latest edition of our virtual speaker series, Tenant Talks™, this time with a spotlight on the accounting industry. We wanted to find out how and if office norms had changed for accounting firms a good five months into...
[fvplayer id="4"] THE COMPANY Charest Legal Solutions, BC’s largest court reporting firm, has been providing court reporting services, real-time reporting, appeals, and mediation and arbitration rooms for over 26 years. The company was doubling in size every 4-5 years. Traditionally it would accommodate this expansion by making the...
Tenant Talks recap: what we learned about the future of law firms in a post-pandemic world On July 23rd, Aura hosted our virtual event Tenant Talks, “Navigating Disruption in the Legal Space 2.0”. With Rocky Ozaki, Founder & CEO of NoW of Work Inc., facilitating the...
Until very recently, you wouldn’t have thought twice about touching a door handle or coffee machine button; these habits were very much on autopilot. The pandemic changed everything. Not only have we started to pay attention to how often we touch surfaces, but we’ve also...
Social distancing hasn’t stopped us from socializing. In fact, we’ve been more social, virtually, than we ever expected. Here at Aura, we’ve used this time to pick the brains of local and international leaders on what the future might look like now that we’ve been...
As COVID19 appeared to completely disrupt our everyday lives, we were forced to revisit how we work and where we work. We’ve seen leading companies like Twitter welcome a whole new chapter by allowing employees the option to work remotely, part-time or even permanently. Other...
Society has learned more than they thought they would about themselves and about the world around them during this pandemic. In terms of the working world, the majority of people have realized that working from home creates a different work-life dynamic and have found creative...
Are you wary about investing in a chair and desk? Maybe you’re thinking you’ll just suck it up for now until you go back into the office? According to Dr. Steach, who is backed up endless research and studies, there is a return of $17.80...
Article written by The Globe and Mail highlighting a conversation between Andrea Yu and Aura's CEO Dan Boram. When there was a bug that entered into the office, it just seemed to pervade and go around,” Justin Thouin recalls. “It was an endless loop of people...
Social distancing seen to influence post-COVID-19 office demand and design There may be less demand for additional office space even as businesses recover from the COVID-19 pandemic. The CEO of a Greater Vancouver office-design company laid out this scenario amid talk about a gradual reopening of the...