How To Stand Out In Your First 3 Months At The New Job

Understand the job beyond the description by discussing daily tasks, reporting structure, and key performance indicators with your manager.

- **Take Notes**: Record all details shared to excel in fulfilling your duties effectively and avoid surprises.

#### Expand Your Network

- **Network Wisely**: Meet team members, supervisors, and higher management whenever possible to build relationships and explore opportunities.

- **Join Activities**: Participate in team-building events to learn, share insights, and discover how you can contribute effectively.

#### Prioritize Your Role

- **Focus First**: Concentrate on mastering your role, and understanding the workplace dynamics, and company culture before taking on additional tasks.

- **Timing Matters**: Once comfortable in your role, extend help beyond your duties as needed.

#### Document Your Wins

- **Track Achievements**: Keep a record of your successes and contributions to showcase your value during assessments.

- **Highlight Accomplishments**: Demonstrate accomplishments during monthly or quarterly reviews to show your impact and dedication.

#### Embrace Positivity

- **Positive Attitude**: Cultivate positivity, show interest in others, seek feedback, and foster strong working relationships.

- **Team Player**: Be receptive, appreciative, and engaging to create a positive work environment for yourself and your colleagues.

Wishing you success as you navigate your first 90 days and establish yourself as a standout employee in your new role.  

Alongside layoffs that have roiled tech companies in the last few months, the office market is also feeling the effects of a right-sizing in the wake of massive expansions that happened at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Wall Street Journal reports that so-called “Big Tech” firms—a cohort that includes the likes of Google, Amazon, Meta, and Salesforce—have been shrinking their real estate presences. Sometimes that means putting office space up for sublease. Sometimes it means pausing construction on new offices. When it presented its latest annual report in January, Google's parent company Alphabet noted that it had paid $1.8 billion in “exit charges” on leases last year as part of efforts to “optimize” its global office footprint.

Even after years of work-from-home culture slowly yielding to a return-to-office orientation, commercial real estate vacancies are still highly elevated. Tech companies, which in many cities had come to rival the footprints of industries like finance, are a big contributor to that supply glut.

Still, SL Green Realty Corp CEO Marc Holliday thinks there might be some hope that the booming artificial intelligence sector might help spur a broader tech real estate recovery.

“AI is something that I think is going to awaken the slumbering tech market,” Holliday said at a recent Citi real estate conference. “Tech has not been a big contributor to incremental demand after about a decade of rapid growth. And I sort of am looking forward to and await their return.”

AI companies have more than doubled their footprint in San Franciso’s tech-heavy office market, up to 4.8 million square feet this year from just 1.9 million square feet in 2019. But per the Journal, the brokerage firm CBRE says the office vacancy rate jumped to a record 36.7% this year from just 3.6% in early 2019.