by Sam Julka | Aug 19, 2022 | IBJ Column
One day this summer, I had been in the office a few hours when I was startled by a small human with Heelys shoes rolling past my desk. I turned around and said to my colleague, “I had no idea your daughter was here today!” She had been reading and coloring in our...
by Sam Julka | Jun 10, 2022 | IBJ Column
“Stop. Collaborate and listen.” I think Vanilla Ice had some great words of wisdom for some of today’s leaders when thinking about what to do with their office space. Well, he had it almost right; I would reorder his words to stop, listen and collaborate but I’m...
by Sam Julka | May 13, 2022 | IBJ Column
Can we go back? They say you can never go home again, or is it that you can never go to the office again? Think back to your late teens or early 20s, when you moved out of your parents’ house to go to college or begin living on your own somewhere. Now try to remember...
by Sam Julka | Mar 11, 2022 | IBJ Column
Can you remember the last time you were really excited to go somewhere? We have a lot of that pent-up energy right now as we all begin to reschedule vacations we canceled over the last several months. Vacations are an “easy out” when thinking about a place we are...
by Sam Julka | Jan 12, 2022 | IBJ Column
Let me start by telling you a story about me. Historically, the week that falls between the Christmas holiday and New Year’s Eve is dead airspace for office buildings. It’s the time of year when everyone is rushing to use their PTO before they lose it, and, whether...
