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ing our jobs," he says. "Our approach is one team and one
focus on delivering material ROI through results focused
on sourcing and third-party management."
To better communicate and share results, Briscoe
and his leadership team present the Global Sourcing
and Real Estate Portfolio to Equifax's senior business
leaders and CIO annually. This presentation helps align
his team's strategic plan with how to best deliver value
to each business to help maximize ROI. The portfolio
provides a number of key metrics in terms of the supply
base, including strategies for eliminating cost, key
changes that have been implemented and what additional opportunities exist.

A Collaborative Culture
As a global data analytics and technology company,
Equifax is continuously competing for top talent. One of
the ways in which it attracts and retains that talent is by
creating an employee-focused environment. "We have

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"When you think about where
we were just nine months ago,
the results are amazing," Trey
Briscoe says.

invested heavily in renovating and updating our sites
to create more collaborative work environments where
people want to come and spend more time," Briscoe
says. "People work differently than they did years ago, so
in order to optimize and fund investments into our most
important facilities, we spent a lot of time collaborating
with our business leaders on the elimination of non-essential real estate."
Including its headquarters in Atlanta, Equifax's real
estate portfolio consists of 80 locations in 24 countries,
which are managed by Vice President, Real Estate Operations Karen Dick and Global Vice President, Real Estate
and Workplace Strategy Pete Skaggs. The real estate
team recently opened a new office in London's financial
district where it is piloting a free address work environment that has been very well received.
"We have no assigned seats and our staff uses an app to
reserve their seat," Dick explains. "We don't have private
offices and that was a first for us. Even the general manager in the UK sits out in the open work environment.
The reason it works is because you have a number of
individual desks and at least an equal number of collaboration spaces that support work on average days, as well
as high capacity days. You have to provide the tools and
the auxiliary spaces that support free address in order for
it to be successful."
Equifax has taken the money it would have spent on
rent and operating costs from non-essential real estate
and invested it into its core and critical properties. The
company's goal is to create a brand and space where
people want to come in and work with activities outside
the office, food options nearby, more networking and
collaboration opportunities.
"London is a great example," Briscoe says. "We looked
at how the previous property was utilized and transitioned the business from a B property to an A+ property

CREDIT: Steven Gondek, Equifax Video Director

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