Fitted out for purpose

Changes to office fit-outs have been dictated by the pandemic, the war in Ukraine, the increase in hybrid work and the entrance of the younger generation onto the job market. Offices today are more expensive than a few years ago but they will now meet a greater range of their users’ needs.Internal negotiations A fit-out is nothing more than how a particular commercial space, such as an office, can be adapted to the needs of a tenant. The costs are deducted from the contract between the landlord and the tenant. The factors that can be manipulated are the length of the contract, how much of the cost is covered by the tenant (up to a particular limit per sqm), and whether there are enticements such as lower rents to compensate for the expenditure of the fit-out. “As technical consultants, we have seen that the rising costs of fit-outs have made this issue more important throughout the negotiations,” points out Michał Kloch, an associate and cost management lead at Cush