Every day, one in seven Canadians struggles to go for coffee with a friend or interview for a job because of physical barriers at their destinations. Although features like ramps and braille signage in elevators may be present, they hardly do enough if users only...
A non-profit organization operating in the tourism industry engaged with Aura to evaluate and reconstruct its downtown Vancouver office space that didn’t accurately reflect the company’s role or purpose. Upon visiting the clients’ office, we discovered a very traditional design home to cubicles, many private offices,...
October 14th, Tenant Talks hosted its most recent virtual event “Reimagining The Office Space and Experience” featuring guests from the tech industry. Panelists included Amanda Nagy, Senior Manager of People Operations at Thinkific, Jason Bailey, Co-Founder of East Side Games and Keith Metcalfe, CEO of...
Retaining talent has always been a challenge for employers with skilled staff regularly jumping ship for better perks or higher pay. The pandemic has been a tricky time that’s slowly but surely changed what people are looking for. As COVID-19 took us by storm, employees...
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...