Knowledge To Go: The Future of Work with Bukky Akinsanmi and Greg Hallman (May 17, 2022)

Entering the third year of the COVID pandemic, employees and firms have adapted to work from home while they are finally planning on a return to the office. The pandemic has brought seismic changes to the use of real estate, including both firms use of office space and workers use of their homes as home offices.

This was an informative webinar on how firms have dealt with changes in their use of office space and how they manage employees. Dr. Hallman discusses the effects of the pandemic on office buildings and investment in office assets by real estate investors. Professor Akinsanmi Oyedeji discusses how managers have adapted and can adapt to the new rules of work such as employees working from home, employees coming back to the office, and the effectiveness of hybrid work with some days in the office and some at home.

You can view the recording of the content presented by Professor Greg Hallman here. We are unable to provide the content provided by Professor Akinsanmi until the research findings have been published.

Bukky Akinsanmi Oyedeji is a licensed architect and Assistant Professor of Strategy at the McCombs School of Business, University of Texas at Austin. She earned her PhD in Strategic Management and Entrepreneurship at the Wisconsin School of Business, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her research examines the conditions under which firms may attain a superior market position through human assets given their uniquely transient and agentic nature. She focuses on the role of complementary firm resources in moderating the value created by a firm’s human capital and explores these effects within the contexts of employee mobility and employee entrepreneurship. She draws on her professional background as an architect to understand how spatial configurational characteristics play a role in these relationships.

Greg Hallman teaches finance and real estate courses in the Finance Department at the McCombs school of Business at University of Texas at Austin since 2002. Dr. Hallman’s teaching focuses on real estate investment and he is the Director of McCombs Real Estate Investment Fund. The student real estate investment fund manages a public and private portfolio of real estate investments, including investments in public REIT securities and private equity real estate investments. Dr. Hallman has a B.S. in Chemistry from the University of Virginia, an MBA from Tulane University, and a PhD in Finance from University of Texas at Austin.

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