NEW YORK CITY-Catch the State of the Union address earlier this month? Being that it tends to be a significant topic, we wanted to know what issues were most important to you. Respondents to last week's poll indicated that they felt jobs were the big issue, with 48% agreeing that we need to keep and create more jobs.

But why the concern for jobs? Scott Homa, vice president of Mid-Atlantic research with Jones Lang LaSalle spoke towards the changing office climate and how it will affect the commercial real estate industry's conventions of employment and the office market in DC in particular.

“We've actually been creating jobs within the office sector based in how workplace dynamics have changed,” he said, citing more workers telecommuting, the rise of flex office space, and greater office building vacancies as reasons behind this. As a result, job growth gauges are different. “Looking back, demand for office space was a clear derivative of employment growth and the line is getting a lot murkier right now based on this drive to efficiency [in the workplace].”