Steps to combatting employee burnout to move your work culture toward work-life harmony

October 17, 2023 / no comments

Letting go of hustle culture can be hard. After all, it’s built on the ideal that we should strive for more at all costs because isn’t more always better? The implicit promise of hustle culture is that if you give yourself over to the grind you can have it all.

It’s a sacrifice that employees are no longer willing to make. As workplace stress continues its relentless climb and burnout hits record levels, employees are drawing a line on giving more and are instead demanding more of their employers…

‘All Of A Sudden I Heard Explosions’: Israel’s Deadliest Day Hits Close To Home For U.S. CRE

October 17, 2023 / no comments

When Henry Manoucheri woke up the morning of Oct. 7 in his house in Jerusalem, he didn’t check his phone because it was a Saturday — and observant Jews don’t use electricity during the Sabbath. 
“All of a sudden I heard sirens. I went to our porch and I looked up outside, and all of a sudden I heard explosions, right over our heads,” said Manoucheri, the CEO of Los Angeles-based multifamily investor Universe Holdings.
Manoucheri said he remembers the Yom Kippur War from when he was a 10-year-old growing up in Iran, but this felt even more intense. As he walked…