Patrick Sisson, The emergence of a new way to decorate the yard for Halloween — a deskbound skeleton engaged in what can only be called the truly endless Zoom meeting — underscores just how much the newly remote workforce is over videoconferencing. But it doesn’t have to be that way. New research, and a number of new apps and tools, suggest that new ways to hold video meetings can help break up the monotony of presentations and digital...

Patrick Sisson, In a year of nonstop news and a bitterly contested presidential election, it can seem like politics, and political opinions, always bubble beneath the surface. Commercial real estate executives who spoke to Bisnow about the state of — or more commonly, lack of — political discourse at work, said that it’s best for all involved to keep any views under the surface and outside of the workplace. “When it enters the boardroom...