What Worked, What Didn’t for CRE Pros Working Remotely
August 10, 2020 | Tom Acitelli | Commercial Observer
When the novel coronavirus pandemic forced all two dozen workers at David Eyzenberg’s eponymous real estate investment bank to work remotely, its founder and president was quietly pleased—at least at first.
Work was getting done. Technology—email, Microsoft Teams and omnipresent, omniscient Zoom—meant that communication was happening, too. And then there were the intangibles: more time with family and less time commuting, not to mention the bottomline savings when no one’s going into the office.
“As a business owner, the prospect of not having to have rent as an overhead was just lovely,” Eyzenberg said from his Miami home. “And I felt that in at least the first few weeks that we were really functioning well.”
