Real estate business

04/03/2022

09/02/2022

“A lot of companies are mandating how many days an employee is allowed to work from home, while others have decided fully remote is the way to go; we believe that decision is best left up to our employees,” says Arne-Christian van der Tang, TomTom’s chief HR officer. He says this “complete flexibility” is the most important part of the new working model. To that extent, the physical offices are still part of the company, though they’re being transformed or rebranded into “hosting centres”, where employees can collaborate and surroundings are designed to support how they’re working.

08/02/2022

When the pandemic hit, TomTom’s leadership made a conscious decision to reshape how their 4,500-plus employees worked, rather than just copy-and-pasting the workflow to a virtual setup. By October, the location-technology company gave its W@TT programme a test run – a model that places the focus on the actual activity of work and not where it’s done. By January 2021, its new hybrid-work structure, in which employees decide if they want to work in an office or home office, officially launched.

07/02/2022

“It's up to the individual to decide where to live for their best life,” says Panowicz. “With freedom comes choice, this immediately opens our talent pool to a much wider net and more importantly, gives our existing talent more freedom. We focus on performance and output – the talent creates the lifestyle and structure that works for them.”

06/02/2022

The company has also chosen to set salaries across one salary band, so what you’re paid is based on the role versus your location. In the US, all employees are paid a “San Francisco salary”, while plans are in the works for EU-based employees to be on a London-based salary band.

05/02/2022

Some staff, for example, decided to move cities or even countries. So, to facilitate their free movement and help them remain productive, the company gave all employees WeWork access to any location of the co-working company’s 800-plus outposts, so they can have a desk to work at anywhere.

04/02/2022

“We're monitoring closely how our team uses the dedicated office space so that we can scale up or down accordingly,” says Panowicz. “In the cities where we have a high concentration of people, 30% of staff would come to the office each week (but not each day), and the rest occasionally for workshops and get-togethers.”

24/01/2022

Another option for how you can make money from real estate is to open a small hostel by converting your office or home into this type of commercial housing. This is now the peak of popularity among visitors to large cities. After all, it is very expensive to go to a hotel, and a cheap overnight stay in a hostel is just the thing.

24/01/2022

The real estate business is often more stable than banks because in the crisis they can go bankrupt or you can lose part of your money because of inflation, but a house or an apartment, as it was in the price, so it will remain. Having evaluated all these factors, many people who want to invest money go to developers and buy apartments, with the aim of subsequent renting it out and getting a monthly profit.

24/01/2022

Real estate is one of the most popular areas for investing money among entrepreneurs and individuals. All this is due primarily to its price, it is stable and grows along with the growth of the dollar and the change in other economic indicators.