Businesses are no longer asking if they should use AI. They're asking why it isn't working. That's the 2026 reality. Grant Thornton's 2026 AI Impact Survey found that 78% of business executives lack confidence they could pass an independent AI governance audit. Companies are scaling AI they cannot explain, measure, or defend. 

That's exactly where Praxis Nexus steps in. Our AI Business Auditing service cuts through the noise, identifying what's working, what's wasted, and what's next. Governance is now the difference between scaling successfully and stalling out. We make sure you're on the right side of that line. Grant Thornton
 

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The headlines screamed "Return to Office." The data whispered something different.

The national office vacancy rate hit 19.7% in early 2025, nearly double pre-pandemic levels. Yet simultaneously, the national average occupancy rate reached a post-pandemic high of 55.13% in February 2025. Both facts are true. That tension defines the era. Kastle Systems, Kisi

By year's end, 67% of companies still offered hybrid flexibility, while only 27% required fully in-person work. Despite high-profile mandates from Amazon, JPMorgan, and the federal government, private-sector hybrid and remote rates remained remarkably stable. Wolters Kluwer, FMC Group

The speculation? Commercial real estate is in quiet structural crisis. Companies are "upgrading" rather than expanding, pursuing a flight-to-quality strategy that leaves older office stock increasingly unviable. Landlords holding B and C-grade space may never see full recovery. The office isn't dead, but it is being permanently resized. Founderreports

The Good: AI finally started pulling its weight. Organizations incorporating AI-powered recruiting technologies jumped 44% in 2024, a 10% increase from 2023, and time-to-fill dropped from 48 days to 41. Skills-based hiring also gained real traction, climbing to 81% of employers shifting focus to competencies over formal credentials. Hiringthing, SHRM

The Bad: The talent gap refused to close. Over three in four organizations still struggled to recruit for full-time positions, with low applicant numbers, employer competition, and candidate ghosting ranking as the top three challenges. Propmodo

The Ugly: Ghosting became normalized on both sides of the table. Candidates ghost employers. Employers ghost candidates. Trust in the hiring process eroded measurably. The average cost per tech hire hit $152,000 in 2024, yet bad hires remained stubbornly common. The process got more expensive and not meaningfully better. Remotly

2024 proved that better tools alone don't fix a broken strategy.

In the Chinese zodiac, 2023 was the Year of the Rabbit: a symbol of hope, careful navigation, and quiet resilience after turbulence. For business consulting, the symbolism fit perfectly.

The 2022 stock market decline didn't just rattle portfolios. It rattled budgets. And when budgets tighten, consulting is often the first line item cut.

The numbers proved it fast. Consulting job postings dropped 63% by September 2023, and growth in the $860 billion professional services sector fell to just 7%, down sharply from 11.5% in 2021. Even the giants weren't immune. KPMG, McKinsey, Accenture, and EY all instituted workforce reductions of 2% to 5%. Consulting.us, MIT Sloan Management Review

But like the Rabbit, the firms that survived moved deliberately, not frantically. Strategic planning consulting saw increased demand as inflationary spikes and rising interest rates accelerated business costs. Companies in turbulent waters needed navigation, not fewer navigators. LinkedIn

The pullback exposed firms built on volume and overhead. It rewarded firms built on trust and outcomes.

The Rabbit doesn't win by charging. It wins by being smart, steady, and exactly where it needs to be. In 2023, that was the only consulting model that held.

August 1, 2020 Logistic Motion has reinitiated its freight brokerage efforts as a new and separate entity: Logistic Motion, a Praxis Nexus DBA. Our past efforts served the general dry freight market segment. Current energies will focus in the auto hauling and specialty freight transportation segments. 

Covid 19 has served as this generation’s touchstone for reinvention. The pandemic has forced business to reinvent previous market stalwarts. While painful, all birthing comes with the promise of new life and new opportunity. 

Praxis Nexus is reimagining every division of its operations; leaning some areas and bolstering others. Nothing is left untouched.

The 2020 recession is effecting the recruiting industry; testing strength of many long-standing relationships. Our Federal Government’s efforts to stave devastation from mass layoffs and business closures has been successful; for the moment we're basking in a cash infused delirium. When government cash band aide is ripped off the true employment reality will splay and spasm. Here's what we expect.

It’s going to be okay--hard but okay; we think so at least. Certain market segments will bounce back.Others will be slower on the uptake. Some may never rebound. Overall though, current unemployment numbers will continue into Fall and then begin to diminish.

The recruiting industry is going to see consolidation. Followed by a stable business flow. Given a vaccine has been introduced to North America in 2021, we’ll see a same year marked increase in total business volume.

Remote work is likely here to stay. Inherent cost savings eliminates the office-clad days of old. Video conferencing coupled with mandatory remote work accommodation in response to this pandemic was the proverbial death knell.

We’re also finding that 40 percent of small to mid-sized businesses and over 50 percent of large corporations are retaining all of their employees. In our view, this portends a faster than previous recession rebound (given the nature of this recession-episodic, not structural); so long as consumer confidence opens wallets. They’ve kept enough talent to keep the lights on. Business will hire up at a fast clip when volume returns.

In the fall 2020, Praxis Nexus in conjunction with Eminence Property Services will initiate the 2021 rental real estate acquisition campaign "RREA". Scope, proforma, asset class, debt, finance, legal and company structure shall be completed and ratified by year end 2020; with a 2021 to-be-announced start date determined during the design phase.

In early in 2020, we reentered the shipping industry with an opportunity poised to provide steadily increasing revenue. Covid 19 abruptly stalled the opening and forced an immediate pivot to dispatching as a third party provider.

In preparing the RREA campaign, a further distillation of future capital investment and its exit strategy was required. This action provided a clear-minded direction and a plan to take us there. As with all successful happenings, the end is clearly in mind.