At Fortune 500 real estate giant JLL headquarters, there's a two-story gathering place that looks like a night club. It includes a barista bar and is called "The Point." Even though JLL employees are spread out over six or seven floors in that building, they gravitate to The Point because they are more likely to just bump into coworkers they wouldn't ordinarily see. That's led to more collaboration, according to JLL Digital CIO Eddy Wagoner. Indeed, some of the company's clients prefer to meet at this JLL building rather than go out to, say, a dinner meeting, he said.

I have a confession to make - I'm not really a millennial! Despite my liberal use of emojis in my tweets and the word'awesome', the fact of the matter is I missed out on the crucial millennial cutoff point by a few months. The good part about being a generational inbetweener is that I remember a time before smartphones, a time before social networks and a time before the internet. I've had the pleasure of a front row seat witnessing the greatest period of technological change in human history and I've loved every bit of it! When I started out with computers, the interfaces were mostly command prompts with very basic graphical user interfaces (GUIs) coming later.