Culhane Meadows’ co-founder James Meadows was recently interviewed by Forbes for an article about whether the pandemic means the end of office space.
Here are excerpts from Jim’s interview:
When Salesforce announced it was acquiring workplace communications company Slack for $27.7 billion, it was not for the profits. In the fiscal year ending January 2020, the company lost $568.4 million on gross sales of $630.4 million; between February and October 2020, the net loss was $212.3 million on $652 million.
Yet with an eye to the future, Slack presented “an opportunity to change how the front office and knowledge workers collaborate,” said Jason Wong, VP-Analyst at Gartner.
Translation: Salesforce had seen the writing on the wall and wanted to enable its corporate clients to better manage the large numbers of people working at home.
Most companies will continue to grow larger remote workforces than ever seen before, according to experts who spoke with Zenger News, given many employees prefer the flexibility and CFOs love the idea of reducing real estate holdings to free up cash.
… companies that once viewed an office as necessary for customer engagement might be surprised. Culhane Meadows, a law firm specializing in technology, has run operations virtually throughout its eight years. When co-founding the firm, CFO James Meadows thought about how often he truly needed an office for client visits: zero.
“My clients were Fortune 100 companies and they never came to my office,” Meadows said. “It caused me to think, does a practice such as mine really need an office?”
For the entire article, click HERE.
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