CASSIE CATANIA-HSU

LAS VEGAS MARKET LEADER, CBRE GROUP

After working in Southern Nevada commercial real estate for more than a decade, Cassie Catania-Hsu was hired in June as the new boss for prominent brokerage firm CBRE Group’s Las Vegas office.

That office, however, is closed because of the coronavirus pandemic, so Catania-Hsu, like countless others who have been exiled from their buildings, is working from home.

“Definitely strange times to start a new job,” she said.

Unlike many people stuck at home, she has the place to herself, save for the family dog. Her husband is back in his office, and her 31/ 2- year-old daughter is attending preschool.

On a typical day, Catania-Hsu drops her daughter off around 7:45 a.m. and starts working at 8.

She picks up her daughter, Brooklyn, around 5:30 p.m. and then exercises in her garage. Afterward, they eat dinner, her daughter goes to sleep, and Catania-Hsu works for maybe another hour before going to sleep and “getting up and doing it all over again.”

She has adjusted to the routine and feels like she has connected with more people on a personal level by getting a window into their homes through Zoom meetings.

Still, she noted, “I cannot wait to go back to the office.”

Elizabeth Page Brumley Las Vegas Review-Journal Cassie Catania-Hsu, who started a new job at CBRE Group’s Las Vegas office in June, works from her home Thursday in Henderson. She has established a routine, but says, “I cannot wait to go back to the office.”