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Brink: Hybrid work cannot build company culture, collaboration, or learning
“There are some benefits to having flexibility and hybrid, but creating culture and creating collaboration and learning, that's not one of the benefits. You know, you really have to get people together to be able to do that”
Brink: Younger generations want to be in the office more
“What we found, too, when you talk about generations is that it's actually the younger generations that want to be in the office even more. They see that they're learning much more when they're in the office. They see that they're creating that social capital t…”
Cohen: Modern workplace shifts are the biggest since the Industrial Revolution
“This has been the biggest revolution in workplace since the industrial revolution, where work, work is changing radically. How people work is changing radically.”
Brink: Gensler expects teams and leaders to work five days in-office
“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 …”
Cohen: Disagreement and tension between co-leaders foster better innovation
“And we don't always agree on things, but that tension and those edges that come together are what create even better innovation and better ideas that we're moving forward with.”
Brink: Gensler's non-siloed structure is a key recruiting differentiator
“I actually think it's a key differentiator at this point when we do hire and they want to be a part of it because it is so different. From what you see at some other design firms, which are maybe a lot top-down or siloed, where you only get to work on the type…”
Cohen: AI cuts Gensler's space visualization time from months to one week
“Now we can visualize spaces more quickly. So within a week, we used to take us three months or six months. Now within a week, we can have multiple ideas and take our clients and bring them right into the space.”
Cohen: Gensler assigns two leaders to every office and practice area
“In fact, in our firm, we have two leaders that are leading every office, every practice area throughout our firm.”
Cohen: Gensler co-leaders resolve disagreements by deferring to each other
“There's so much trust between us as a team that we usually defer to one another. In other words, we both make our case on a discussion and then invariably one of us will say, you know what? You take that one. I trust you. I don't necessarily agree with you, bu…”
Brink: Architecture clients now treat climate resilience as a must-have
“And what's, what's really incredible is that clients are really seeing this as a must have right now, not a nice to have or a could do, but it might get VE'd out. It is a core part of what they need to be solving for.”
Brink: 61% of workers make cross-demographic friends at the office
“One of our workplace surveys that came out Right one or two years into the pandemic, we were talking about making friends outside of your generation and connecting with people who are outside of your social group or of different race or age, and found that 61%…”
Cohen: Gensler partners with major concrete makers on low-CO2 mixes
“So we're working, as an example, on materials, we're working with the largest concrete makers in the world, and they're coming up with different mixes that emit much less CO₂ in the environment.”
Cohen: Gensler has surpassed $2 billion in annual revenue
“We're just surpassing this magic number, which is two billion dollars to take on some of the world's greatest challenges.”
Cohen: Gensler scaled from under 100 to nearly 7,000 people
“When I came to the firm, We were probably less than, close to a hundred people, and now we're close to 7000 people.”
Brink: Gensler operates 57 offices and employs over 6,000 professionals
“This year we have offices, 57 offices around, around the world. More than 6000 really creative, incredible professionals working across this platform to provide design and architecture for our clients.”
Cohen: Gensler worked in over 100 countries last year
“Last year, we worked in over a hundred countries, so we're really creating design influence around the globe.”
Cohen: Century City's 2000 Avenue of the Stars frames the Hollywood sign
“My Easter egg is on a building we completed about 15 years ago. It's called 2000 Avenue of the Stars. And it really is two buildings in one, so the building has a large aperture, a hole in it. And if you go across the street to the Century Plaza Hotel and you …”