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DJ Mcgauley and Associates Inc. is your Office Space Planning, Renovations and Relocation Project Management Company of Choice for the Toronto, GTA and surrounding areas. If a renovation or relocation of your 2,000 – 25,000 sq.ft. office space is in your plans, contact us to arrange a no-obligation site meeting. We guarantee that by the end of that meeting, you will know all that would be required to make your office renovation/relocation project a successful reality.
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DJ Mcgauley and Associates Inc. is your Office Space Planning, Renovations and Relocation Project Management Company of Choice for the Toronto, GTA and surrounding areas. If a renovation or relocation of your 2,000 – 25,000 sq.ft. office space is in your plans, contact us to arrange a no-obligation site meeting. We guarantee that by the end of that meeting, you will know all that would be required to make your office renovation/relocation project a successful reality.
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DJ Mcgauley and Associates Inc. is your Office Space Planning, Renovations and Relocation Project Management Company of Choice for the Toronto, GTA and surrounding areas. If a renovation or relocation of your 2,000 – 25,000 sq.ft. office space is in your plans, contact us to arrange a no-obligation site meeting. We guarantee that by the end of that meeting, you will know all that would be required to make your office renovation/relocation project a successful reality.
Call 416-239-1931, email [email protected] or visit our website for more information and to complete our contact form.
DJ McGauley & Associates Inc. Expands Into New Office Space
One of Toronto’s trusted office space planning, renovation and relocation project management companies, DJ McGauley & Associates Inc., has expanded into a new 2,600 sq. ft. office space in the Toronto West region, enabling them to offer warehouse space for temporary furniture storage and asset management services to its clientele.
“We wanted to have a space that would not only serve our own office needs, but also serve the needs of our clients…” stated owner and Project Manager, Michael McGauley.
The company currently provides a six-fold integrated project management service offering to both its current and new corporate and industrial clientele:
- Find It – Helping clients determine the office/industrial space that would best meet that company’s needs
- Design It – Office space planning services, beginning with providing a floor plan that best addresses a company’s needs
- Build It – Construction management and renovation services which would involve the building or reconfiguring of new or existing office spaces
- Furnish It – sourcing and installing office furniture best suited for company
- Move into It – Relocation planning and office move management
- Maintain it – Facilities management services, including regular safety checks, checking and replacement of office furniture, and ongoing office space maintenance checks
Over 1800 sq. ft. this new office space is actually an alarm-secured climate-controlled duo-level warehouse space which DJ McGauley & Associates Inc. sectioned off into permanent storage cubicles. With this unique warehouse space set-up, DJ McGauley & Associates Inc. can now offer any clients that are retracting, reorganizing, renovating or reconstructing their office space, an option to temporarily store excess furniture, documents and other assets in one of its warehouse cubicles until the client’s transition period is completed.
“It’s an extra convenience we can now offer our clients,” adds McGauley, “which can ultimately save them time and money, even during construction jobs.”
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DJ Mcgauley and Associates Inc. is your Office Space Planning, Renovations and Relocation Project Management Company of Choice for the Toronto, GTA and surrounding areas. If a renovation or relocation of your 2,000 – 25,000 sq.ft. office space is in your plans, contact us to arrange a no-obligation site meeting. We guarantee that by the end of that meeting, you will know all that would be required to make your office renovation/relocation project a successful reality.
Call 416-239-1931, email [email protected] or visit our website for more information and to complete our contact form.
Office Pods– A New Solution to Privacy in an Open Office Space Design
Among the many office space design trends that currently exist, the open office space design has been the one popular design choice spanning several industries to encourage collaboration amongst staff and put all employees on an equal playing…or I should say, working field. But no matter how attractive the open office space design is to today’s organizations, there is always that looming need to create quiet areas or areas of privacy to handle regular business operation tasks such as making client phone calls meetings. Traditional offices closures and conference rooms have been the solutions to date, but a new solution is coming over the office space design horizon that more closely fits with the open office design concept.
Introducing office pods.
Office pods are self-contained portable sound proof enclosures created for the sole purpose of providing a quiet space or place of privacy in the midst of an open office space design.
Office pods offer several benefits:
- They offer flexibility to an office space design. Office pods are not enclosures that are fixed to a building. They are in fact portable or mobile, so like furniture, they can be placed anywhere inside or outside the office area—wherever best compliments the open office space design.
- Office pods are modular by nature, therefore can be dismantled, moved and reassembled from one office location to the next. They can even be easily extended to grow as your company grows.
- Office pods come in a variety of shapes, sizes and colours, therefore can be creatively designed to complement the office space design theme of your organization.
- Office pods offer full and partial enclosure options. The full enclosure office pods, similar to an enclosed office or conference room, are ideal for business meetings, conference calls, and other operational tasks that require one’s full and uninterrupted attention. The partial enclosure office pods–sometimes referred to as office booths–offer opportunity for staff to still collaborate or find a quiet space work or relax in an open setting but with less noise interruption from surrounding office activities.
- Office pods can have a combination of clear, glazed and/or solid coloured walls to further compliment or enhance the office space design theme while still maintaining a balance between open office space design and the need to respect confidentiality.
So, if your current or future office space design is one of an open concept but you still want to allow for areas of quietness or privacy for your staff’s and overall business’ well-being, or your landlord forbids fixed reconstruction of an office space, adding office pods to your office space design could be the best solution.
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DJ Mcgauley and Associates Inc. is your Office Space Planning, Renovations and Relocation Project Management Company of Choice for the Toronto, GTA and surrounding areas. If a renovation or relocation of your 2,000 – 25,000 sq.ft. office space is in your plans, contact us to arrange a no-obligation site meeting. We guarantee that by the end of that meeting, you will know all that would be required to make your office renovation/relocation project a successful reality.
Call 416-239-1931, email [email protected] or visit our website for more information and to complete our contact form.
References:
Urban office Interiors, Office Pods, https://www.urban-office.com/podscreens.html
OfficePod, OfficePod Lift the Lid on Dead Space, http://www.officepod.co.uk/about-officepod/
Collaboration: Why it should be subject to a Collaborative-Autonomy Work-Life Balance
Collaboration. It’s the buzzword of the 21st century… at least in the corporate world.
It is no secret that for the past five years collaboration has been the ongoing trend for companies wanting to achieve a competitive edge in the marketplace. After all, collaboration is the catalyst for innovation and creativity. But like anything else, too much collaboration could have an adverse effect on a company’s success.
Now, please do not misunderstand me –Collaboration does have its benefits. As mentioned before, collaboration, or the coming together of a group of two or more people working together through idea-sharing and thinking to achieve a common goal, provides opportunity for projects to be addressed with greater efficiency, creativity, and innovative solutions. Different strengths are brought to the table and each member of a collaborative team has opportunity to share knowledge, skill and/or learn from his or her fellow members. Collaboration also fosters a sense of unity or belonging. It allows individuals to “own” what is important to the company which can have a direct positive effect on morale among employees. However, companies that only focus on the benefits tend to miss some of the short-falls that can arise from an over indulgence of collaboration.
Despite its many benefits, collaboration is not for everyone. Organizations in general are built on people with a variety of personalities, some of which thrive working in a group setting, others of which work best alone. Forcing excessive collaboration on all employees may cause undo stress for individuals that work best focusing on a task independent of others around them.
In addition, collaboration can take up a lot of time at work and therefore interfere with work-life balance. It is estimated that at least 70% – 85% of an employee’s time during regular work hours is taken up in face to face, virtual or over the phone meetings. For some employees, this means that any tasks that need to be worked on individually or require an extreme amount of focus and concentration are done before or after work hours, at home or staying late at the office, leaving little time for social activities, rest and mental rejuvenation. This in turn could result in compromising the efficiency of a company’s operations and output both in terms of time and quality.
So what is the solution? Keep collaborating but find a balance between collaboration and autonomy for your employees in order to maximize on the benefits of both worlds.
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DJ Mcgauley and Associates Inc. is your Office Space Planning, Renovations and Relocation Project Management Company of Choice for the Toronto, GTA and surrounding areas. If a renovation or relocation of your 2,000 – 25,000 sq.ft. office space is in your plans, contact us to arrange a no-obligation site meeting. We guarantee that by the end of that meeting, you will know all that would be required to make your office renovation/relocation project a successful reality.
Call 416-239-1931, email [email protected] or visit our website for more information and to complete our contact form.
References:
- Study.com, “What is Collaboration in the Workplace? Definition, Benefits & Examples”, http://study.com/academy/lesson/what-is-collaboration-in-the-workplace-definition-benefits-examples.html
- The Economist, “The Collaboration Curse”, January 23, 2016, pg 63
Happy Family Day!
DJ Mcgauley and Associates Inc. is your Office Space Planning, Renovations and Relocation Project Management Company of Choice for the Toronto, GTA and surrounding areas. If a renovation or relocation of your 2,000 – 25,000 sq.ft. office space is in your plans, contact us to arrange a no-obligation site meeting. We guarantee that by the end of that meeting, you will know all that would be required to make your office renovation/relocation project a successful reality.
Call 416-239-1931, email [email protected] or visit our website for more information and to complete our contact form.
Happy Valentines Day from DJ McGauley & Associates Inc.
DJ Mcgauley and Associates Inc. is your Office Space Planning, Renovations and Relocation Project Management Company of Choice for the Toronto, GTA and surrounding areas. If a renovation or relocation of your 2,000 – 25,000 sq.ft. office space is in your plans, contact us to arrange a no-obligation site meeting. We guarantee that by the end of that meeting, you will know all that would be required to make your office renovation/relocation project a successful reality.
Call 416-239-1931, email [email protected] or visit our website for more information and to complete our contact form.
Canadian Commercial Real Estate Industry in Transition for 2016
In 2015, we saw an influx in the purchase and development of mix-used facilities, particularly in strong urban centres like Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver, our Canadian dollar rise and fall to the US dollar, and the shutting down of oil companies in Western Canada. How does this set up the Canadian Commercial Real Estate industry for 2016?
According to PwC and Urban Land Institute’s report on Emerging Trend in Real Estate 2016 (R), the Canadian Commercial Real Estate industry is poised for transition. As a result of our low oil prices and low Canadian dollar, exporting to the US and other foreign countries is likely going to rise which could lead to an over 3% growth in demand for manufacturing, transportation, warehouse and fulfillment centre facilities here in Canada from local and foreign investors. Mixed-use development projects that began in 2015 will continue development in 2016, but the 2015 influx of office and mixed-use developments combined with businesses’ varying responses to the changing economy has led to an increase in office space vacancy. This means that the real estate owners of those developments will be focused on doing whatever it takes to have those vacant spaces filled, even if it means converting parts of their mixed use facilities into medical care or retirement home facilities to meet the growing needs of our aging baby boomer population.
In the meantime, some of our larger Canadian Commercial Real Estate companies are looking beyond the Canadian border for investment opportunities. For some, it is to increase their portfolios and have a bigger footprint in the international commercial real estate industry. For others, it is to take note of the ever growing trends in the foreign markets that could eventually become quite evident in our Canadian market. For example, different parts of the US are seeing an increase in restaurant and bar sales frequented by individuals that are on average 25yrs and up. This trend forecasts an increase in demand for urban space clusters by a millennial generation that are up and coming decision makers with a desire to be more mobile and live in urban clusters that are in close proximity to where they work and play….”
Our Canadian commercial real estate industry may not be as poised for exponential growth in 2016 as it has been in previous years, but it is in a position to allow new opportunities for growth in markets that have not previously shone in the Canadian economy.
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DJ Mcgauley and Associates Inc. is your Office Space Planning, Renovations and Relocation Project Management Company of Choice for the Toronto, GTA and surrounding areas. If a renovation or relocation of your 2,000 – 25,000 sq.ft. office space is in your plans, contact us to arrange a no-obligation site meeting. We guarantee that by the end of that meeting, you will know all that would be required to make your office renovation/relocation project a successful reality.
Call 416-239-1931, email [email protected] or visit our website for more information and to complete our contact form.
References:
PwC Canada, Emerging Trends in Real Estate(R) – Canada and United States 2016, 2015 December 31, http://www.pwc.com/ca/en/industries/real-estate/publications/emerging-trends-real-estate-canadian-summary.html
McLean, Steve, Real Estate News Exchange, Property Biz Canada, Real Estate Forum – Strategic Thinking for 2016, 2015 December 8, http://renx.ca/strategic-thinking-2016/
Happy New Year from DJ McGauley & Associates Inc.!
Wishing you a safe and Happy New Year and great success in 2016!
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DJ McGauley and Associates Inc. is your Office Move, Reconstruction and Reconfiguration Project Management Company of choice for the Toronto, GTA and surrounding areas. If an office move or reconstruction of your 2,000 – 25,000 sq.ft. office space is a remote possibility, consider contacting us to arrange a no-obligation site meeting. We guarantee that by the end of that meeting you will know all that would be required to make your office move/reconstruction project a successful reality.
Call 416-239-1931 , email [email protected], or visit our website to complete our contact form.
Corporate Space Planning & Relocation Advice 