Using AI to Turbo Charge Human-Centric Real Estate
Antony Slumbers & Midjourney
We are all aware of just how much Covid has transformed our collective attitudes towards work and the office. Four years after the start of Covid managers around the world are still struggling with how to assimilate into their operating procedures the desire amongst the vast majority of employees to not give up what they learnt was possible during the pandemic. That being in the office five days a week was absolutely not necessary, and that the costs and constraints around commuting into a workplace are self imposed and injurious to a better way of working and living.
This is still playing out, but the end point has been inevitable for years. Post Covid was never going to be a resumption of life pre Covid. We’ve all learnt too much.
We are now in the era of human-centric real estate. Unless the spaces and places we are being asked to spend our time are conducive to enabling people to be happy, healthy and productive they will increasingly become obsolete. They will no longer have any sort of product/market fit. Indeed we are already seeing this in the market - pitiful occupancy and utilisation levels are directly correlated to having lost any sort of human utility.
All of this is a known known. What is far less understood is just how much AI is going to:
Enable the creation of human-centric spaces and places.
Make these types of spaces even more important, as the ‘work we do’ is fundamentally reconfigured due to technological change.
Provide the tools for either existing companies, or new entrants, to be dramatically more productive than is the norm today.
In the following videos I dive deep into these rabbit holes and provide frameworks for how to utilise AI to create great human-centric real estate, how to rethink your own products and services and their delivery, and how to create a company culture appropriate to this new world.
In Part 1 of this video series I am going to introduce the subject, Define Human-Centric Real Estate, and explain why we need to care.
In Part 2 of this video series I am going explain what AI can actually do to impact the six pillars of human centric real estate, and what are the the direct and indirect financial benefits of this approach?
In Part 3 of this video series I am going to look at how we’d approach this topic if we were starting from scratch, and how productive that could make us.
And finally in Part 4 of this video series I am going to analyse the culture of a human-centric company, and wrap up everything in a set of conclusions.