With the COVID-19 pandemic, building owners and companies renting space have been forced to view flexible office options with a new eye, two executives in CBRE's flexible office subsidiary, Hana, said during a recent podcast.

Georgia Collins, executive vice president of client solutions for Hana, said during The Weekly Take podcast that while some organizations have embraced flexible arrangements for a decade or two, other parts of the industry have been reluctant to test it.

"So what's really changed is the scale at which we can now work flexibly, because we've been forced into this experiment," Collins said.

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Brenda Sapino Jeffreys

Senior reporter Brenda Sapino Jeffreys covers the business of law in Texas. Contact her at [email protected] On Twitter: @BrendaSJeffreys