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Prochazka & Partners helped with the expansion of Zásilkovna

The company Prochazka & Partners provided new premises in Brno with a size of 4500 m2 for Zásilkovna. The new building is located in the logistics zone near Brno Airport and brings a number of innovations not only from the construction point of view, but also from the user's point of view. The modular construction system allowed the tenants to use two separate parts of one building in parallel while maintaining good transport services.

"I really appreciate the long-term cooperation with Zásilkovna and I am very pleased that we were able to help with our client's further strategic expansion, which will help further streamline their services," adds Eva Špicarová, Associate of Prochazka & Partners from the Industrial team.

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Participants of the Office of the Year competition on scooters: It was a ride!

Yesterday, Prochazka & Partners, the organizer of the prestigious Office of the Year competition, organized an unusual ride on Prague on electric scooters for its clients and participants, during which guests had the opportunity to visit five non-traditional office interiors (EYELEVEL, NN IT HUB, JetBrains, RedBull and Hub Hub) . They were among this year's finalists or winners of the Office of the Year competition. As is necessary nowadays, the event took place with drapes in the interiors, temperature measurement and ubiquitous disinfection. Despite all the health and hygiene measures, the guests enjoyed a fun and unusual day.

"I am glad that even in today's difficult times, there were almost 30 lovers of quality office design who took an inspiring ride through Prague with us under strict anti-covid measures. Some tours took place in the currently closed offices, so we all agreed that we are looking forward to the time when these beautiful spaces will be full of working life and enthusiastic employees again, "says Radek Procházka, Managing Partner of Prochazka & Partners and founder of the Office of the Year competition.

Almost 30 participants of the event looked at the inspiring spaces of offices, which scored in various competition categories. They could see under the cover of the awarded IT Offices of the Year (NN IT HUB), Employee Friendly Offices of the Year (JetBrains), Offices of the Year over 5000 m2 (EYELEVEL) and finalists of the Offices of the Year 2019 competition (RedBull and Hub Hub).

Winning realizations

The participants of the event were able to learn what was behind the success of the Employee Friendly approach of JetBrains, which, in addition to an exclusive design for its employees, offers not only a fitness room, but also a sauna and a room for active sleep. They also appreciated the approach of the architects who worked for EYELEVEL, and even with a more project-intensive implementation of over 5,000 m2, they were able to maintain a feeling of cosiness in the space. Undoubtedly, all the guests were thrilled by the offices of NN IT HUB, to the success of which the employees themselves contributed their ideas, inventing, for example, a "cloud" meeting room full of plastic balloons and hanging chairs.

More information about the Office of the Year competition and photos of visited offices can be found at www.kancelareroku.cz.

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Austerity measures should not interfere with common areas

The current crisis has undoubtedly caused many companies to seek savings, often at the cost of redundancies. We are currently monitoring the demand for a reduction in office capacity by an average of 15-20 percent. Despite the current wave of redundancies, there will continue to be a struggle for quality people in the labor market. Therefore, companies should not save on the area and quality of common areas or meeting rooms, increasing the comfort of employees. But rather within the size of the desktop.

"Attractive office design underlining the corporate culture will certainly continue to be a trend for corporate clients, which will not be threatened even by the coronavirus crisis. We solve current savings from the point of view of the capacity of jobs, not common areas, company sports grounds or meeting rooms. Rather than solving the often impossible two-meter distances in practice, we focus on more efficient use of offices. Including the division of meeting rooms into several smaller ones and the "breaking" of open space into more smaller spaces separated by fixed and mobile dividing elements, "says Radek Vlček, head of project managers in the Design & Build team of Prochazka & Partners.

The current post-covid trend for streamlining space is, for example, to combine open and closed space in an interesting way. And separate employees into smaller teams. This will help to reduce the work area per employee (standardized table 70 x 140 cm) while maintaining the same area of ​​common areas.

"These solutions mean, on the one hand, higher financial costs that companies do not have in times of savings and, on the other hand, a real reduction in labor productivity, while neither companies can afford in times of savings and redundancies. The differences in the use of home office will certainly be in junior and senior positions, creative vs. support activities. But we expect a fundamental reassessment of needs. In the context, however, it is necessary to realize that home office means the practical transfer of fixed costs of companies to employees, whether they realize it themselves or not. "

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Interview of Radek Procházka on the Mladypodnikatel.cz server

The interview of Radek Procházka, Managing Partner of Prochazka & Partners published on the Mladypodnikatel.cz server, concerned the following areas:

what strategy is behind the company's success,

what were the beginnings of Radek's business,

what exactly does Prochazka & Partners focus on when representing tenants of commercial real estate,

how the current market situation has been affected by the coronavirus pandemic.

Interview of Radek Procházka with Jiří Rostecký from Mladypodnikatel.cz

Check here https://mladypodnikatel.cz/radek-prochazka-stav-trhu-komernich-nemovitosti-t38264

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Prochazka & Partners - Prague Office Market

We provide project consulting and project management, including the services of an architect, cost management, technical consulting and interior building works management. As part of our standard package we offer project management, which we also provide on a stand-alone basis. Visit today!

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There is already 50,000 meters of sublease on the Prague office market

We expect to double by the end of the year, so companies are dealing with excess capacity.

Developers, who currently have over 200,000 m2 of offices under construction, will have a strong competitor on the Prague market in the coming crisis years. And in the form of sublease or secondary lease. Companies are trying to subtract the excess capacity that they have created as a result of the crisis or the widespread introduction of a home office. The situation from 2009-2012 is repeated. At that time, before the crisis in 2008, construction was estimated at 1.2 million m2 for this period. In the end, only 600,000 m2 were realized. The reason for stopping construction was just excess capacity. The vacancy rate for offices increased from a record low of 5-6% to 12-14% in the crisis years.

"Currently, we see 50,000 m2 for sublease on the market and we expect to double it by the end of the year. Companies are thus trying to put excess capacity on the market. On the one hand, many of them have maintained a greater degree of the home office. On the other hand, there are companies that currently lay off 10–20% of employees, and it is clear that we have an oversupply in the office market that is not in the market statistics on projects under construction. The excess capacity that companies are currently trying to acquire will affect the desire to build new projects on the office market in the coming years, "says Radek Procházka, Managing Partner of Prochazka & Partners.

The advantage of the sublease for those interested in these spaces is immediate and quality equipment. This is mostly a high standard of offices and modern design, which was not spared in the pre-crisis years as part of the competitive struggle for equipment talent. Of course, it is necessary to separate the potential subtenant from the remaining office space. However, from the point of view of investments, this is a minimal cost compared to the actual construction or reconstruction.

The hybrid model of office operation

"The hybrid model, where a large part of employees work from home and office, becomes more just a place for meetings and mutual coordination is certainly preferred, especially in the IT segment. Until now, companies have competed for benefits so that employees spend most of their free time in offices. Large companies from other fields have long been inspired in the field of IT offices, and are currently re-evaluating their office future, which may cause another wave of excess capacity in the market, "adds Procházka.