Brink: Gensler expects teams and leaders to work five days in-office
Elizabeth Brink · Inside the world's largest architecture firm (Gensler's Elizabeth Brink & Andy Cohen) · Dec 13, 2025 · at 32:37
Elizabeth Brink, co-CEO of architecture firm Gensler, explains the firm's mandatory five-day in-office working policy.
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“We are open, we are in office, we expect our teams to be working together five days a week, we expect our leaders to be there with their teams five days a week, not working from home, but also being out with clients, also being traveling, also you know, being out in our cities”
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