Sustainability

GPT halfway towards zero emissions

September 3, 2015 Steve Ford

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With attention focused on the Abbott Government’s commitments ahead of the UN climate change conference in Paris in December, it is of note that there is one Australian industry considered a global leader in its efforts to improve sustainability outcomes and reduce emissions – Property. And the leader among the Australian property companies is GPT […]

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Office

MLC Centre retains lustre for longest-serving tenants

August 25, 2015 Scott Rochfort

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One of the MLC Centre’s longest-serving tenants always knew where he wanted his boutique financial services business to be based. “When I first came to Australia, I looked at this building and said, ‘If I’m ever going to open a business this is the building it’s got to be in’,” says Barry Mendel, whose business […]

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Insights

Co-working is here to stay

August 21, 2015 Matthew Faddy

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Shared or co-working spaces, where freelancers or professionals from different organisations work alongside each other in the same office, have been around for more than decade. For much of that time, the stereotypical image of a co-working space has been a converted warehouse occupied by tech geeks and empty pizza boxes. But co-working is not […]

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Insights

The end of performance reviews?

August 19, 2015 Phil Taylor

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The end of performance reviews? Don’t bet your life on it. In 1897, a journalist was sent to inquire on a rumour Mark Twain was near death. In fact, it was Twain’s cousin who was very ill. Twain recounted the event in the New York Journal of 2 June 1897, giving birth to much repeated […]

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Community

More companies embrace shared values

August 14, 2015 Scott Rochfort

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An increasing number of major Australian companies are adopting shared value strategies, according to a project aimed to encourage businesses to adopt practices that boost competitiveness while at the same time creating benefits for the wider community. In its first survey, the Shared Value Project has found that 19 Australian companies out of the 163 […]

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Retail

Rouse Hill Town Centre: GPT’s innovation lab

August 13, 2015 Vanessa Orth

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GPT Group recognises the importance of having to continually push the boundaries and innovate. As owners of real estate, we are constantly adapting to the evolution of the physical environment and more recently this has come to involve the digital world. We now operate in an environment where the physical and digital worlds are intertwined. […]

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