May 5, 2025

In this issue: Kokuyo to Acquire HNI India / Interface Reports First Quarter Sales Gain / How Will the Trade War Affect Commercial Construction? / Office Sector Logs Fourth Straight Quarter of Positive Absorption / Universities Put Developments On Ice As Trump Cuts Billions In Research Funding / Prime office rents around the world continue to rise / Future of Work 2025: WEF report sets out the unsurprising but profound changes ahead / The United State of Work: Julia Hobsbawm on the Global Transformation of Work / The Convergence of Tech and the Financial Workplace / 'Tell Me The Rules': Builders, Manufacturers Sit On Hands Awaiting Trump Administration Clarity / How Law Firms in Mid-Tier Markets Are Leading Workplace Innovation / Agency Is the New Workplace Amenity / Everyone wants to work in a fancy building these days. WeWork got the memo / and much more…