Josh Freed shares that Proximity have rolled out a Dispute Engine to help operators auto-assemble an evidence packet for banks to win more chargeback disputes.

A fantastic use of automation for solving a task-heavy, and stressful, workflow.

The hidden cost of proximity, without connection and community, in a coworking space is very real.

Cat Johnson explores how you end up with a lack of energy, low engagement with your members, minimal (or nonexistent) collaboration, and the overall feeling of a transactional environment.

Neal Bloom and Fred Grier discuss coworking, designing for daily collisions, shared context, curated proximity and real work on the Tacos and Tech Podcast.

Andrea Pirrotti-Dranchak explores the "power of proximity" in her latest Allwork.Space article, “The Real ROI Of RTO".

Included in the article are stats from MIT Sloan School of Management and Harvard Business School showing how proximity drives measurable performance. The piece also looks at how/why Instagram is moving to five days a week because in-person teams move faster, think sharper, and create better.

Spaces to Places hosted a Voice of the Customer research launch breakfast featuring executives from Clockwise, Workspace Group, and CRE firms CEG, and TSP, collectively representing 80M+ sqft of UK office space.

The panel discussed post-COVID workplace transformation from collective "worker bee" culture to individual identity-driven decision-making, with data showing businesses choosing office locations based on decision-maker proximity dropped from 25% to 10% since the pandemic.

TSP revealed it abandoned its building app portfolio-wide after finding technology must integrate seamlessly into existing customer behavior rather than forcing new habits, while CEG reported its fastest growth comes from "room service" customers who customize their service bundles.