Tech Insights

The industry’s best intelligence, delivering strategic data-driven insights through analysis of market, labor force and workplace trends.

Scoring Tech Talent 2021

Scoring Tech Talent is a comprehensive analysis of labor market conditions, cost and quality in North America for highly skilled tech workers. The report offers insights on how tech labor trends inform workforce decisions and influence real estate in 50 U.S. & Canadian markets.

Global Tech Talent Linked to R&D Spending

Many companies are globalizing their tech workforces to meet growing needs for innovation.

Apartment Rents Appear to Bottom Out in Major Tech Cities

Pandemic-induced moves by some people away from major cities caused apartment rents in 20 tech markets to fall by an average of 11.6% in March 2021 from February 2020 levels.

Tech Retains Office Space Leasing Crown

Tech companies leased more office space than any other industry last year although both the aggregate square footage they leased and their share of total office leasing declined from 2019 levels.

Capital Markets Add Impetus to Tech Industry’s Growth

COVID-19 has elevated the importance of technology usage and added impetus to its future growth prospects.

Downtown San Francisco’s Real Estate Recovery Depends on Tech Industry

After the COVID pandemic pummeled downtown San Francisco with a one-two punch of low office attendance and many retail business closures, the tech industry appears poised to revive the market’s real estate usage.

Half of New Office Jobs Since 2020 Created by Tech Industry

The tech industry has added more office-using jobs than any other industry sector since the start of the COVID pandemic.

U.S. Venture Capital Funding Sets Record in 2021

A record annual total of $276 billion in venture capital funding across 9,700 deals in 2021—more than double 2020’s total of $132 billion—has fueled robust job creation and real estate activity by technology and life sciences companies.

Growing Tech Industry Leads U.S. Office Leasing Rebound

After curtailing their expansion during the first year of the pandemic, tech companies became more active in 2021, accounting for 21% of total leasing activity, up from 17% in 2020 and 20% in 2019.

Formulating an Effective Tech Talent Acquisition Strategy

An effective strategy to secure tech talent in an increasingly tight labor market involves more than just focusing on locations where tech workers are concentrated.

Tech-30 2021

Tech-30 explores the tech industry’s impact on office space and ranks the 30 leading tech markets in the U.S. and Canada, as well as 10 up-and-coming tech markets.

Scoring Tech Talent 2021

Global Tech Talent Linked to R&D Spending

Many companies are globalizing their tech workforces to meet growing needs for innovation.

Apartment Rents Appear to Bottom Out in Major Tech Cities

Pandemic-induced moves by some people away from major cities caused apartment rents in 20 tech markets to fall by an average of 11.6% in March 2021 from February 2020 levels.