Ben Barrison and Glenn Dunn write for EG on the future of office space

Property Litigation Partner, Ben Barrison, and head of Forsters' corporate occupier practice, Glenn Dunn, have co-authored an article for EG entitled, ‘Office space: how to downsize for the new normal’.

In their article, Ben and Glenn explain how the situation after lockdown will cause businesses to re-evaluate their space requirements as more staff look to adopt proper agile-working practices.

As rent constitutes one of the major lines of cost for any business, they consider a few options regarding the challenges of dealing with leases:

• Break options
• Assign or sublet
• Negotiate