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Please tell us, how did it happen that you became professio-
nally engaged in the office property market?
A few years ago, when I was looking for a job in the
field of marketing and communication, I came across
an offer at Skanska. At the time, I associated the name
with the construction industry in general, but numero-
us “Employer of the Year” awards and a common opi-
nion among my friends about Skanska as a solid Swedish
company led me to say to myself, “why not the construc-
tion industry?”. Only at the job interview was I put right
and it was explained to me that I was going to deal with
office properties. And then I “took the bait”, my invo-
lvement and interest in the industry grew quickly. I got
involved in office rentals, in the meantime I completed
postgraduate studies in real estate. Office properties
have become my passion and today I can’t imagine de-
aling with something else anymore.
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new office buildings with a total area of 660 thousand
sq.m are currently under construction in the capital. The sup-
ply will peak around the second quarter of 2016, when the
vacancy rate in Warsaw is set to increase to a record level of
18-21%,
from almost 14% currently. This will translate into
I don’t have my own desk
at work
We sit down with Katarzyna Zawodna, chairman of the board at Skanska Property Poland to talk about the situation in
the Polish office market, creating public spaces and new trends in office space arrangement
Axis, Kraków
