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As more and more businesses begin developing and implementing workplace strategies and rethinking the role of the office as a tool to improve employee productivity and wellbeing, Andy Tyler, Head of West End Leasing catches up with Joe Borrett, Director of Real Estate and Construction at Google. Andy Tyler — Tell us about your role at Google? What are the priorities of the role? How have these changed in recent years? Joe Borrett — My role at Google has the very long title of Director of Real Estate and Construction for EMEA, India & APAC, and as you would suspect it covers 16 time zones, four continents and lots of buildings in many countries and cities. As the Director I am responsible for delivering the spaces that enable Google and Googlers to thrive. This may seem like a simple statement, but in essence it requires best-in-class teams and great partners, working and collaborating to produce great spaces. This goal hasn’t changed over the years – in fact we still use the core principles that we’ve always used, only our buildings are bigger. IN CONVERSATION By Andy Tyler, International Partner, Head of West End Leasing, London Markets andy.tyler @eur.cushwake.com In Conversation with Joe Borrett, Director of Real Estate and Construction at Google CUSHMAN & WAKEFIELD 31 IN CONVERSATION CUSHMAN & WAKEFIELD 30 IN CONVERSATION

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