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How Workplace Managers Outside Your Sector Handle Hybrid Space: Office vs. Campus vs. Hub

On the same Tuesday morning, three managers open three dashboards. A corporate facilities lead in a downtown office tower watches a floor that the booking sy…

Workplace Insider Team Sep 23, 2026 5 min read

The Open Space That Emptied the Office Instead of Filling It: The Story of a Failure

Two corporate headquarters agreed to something unusual: before tearing down their walls, they let researchers measure exactly how people worked. For three we…

Workplace Insider Team Sep 17, 2026 4 min read

The Workplace Manager in Five Years: From Square Footage to Behavioral Data

A facilities team pulls up its booking system on a Tuesday afternoon and sees what looks like a healthy office: meeting rooms reserved back to back, desks marked as taken, a calendar that suggests the floor is working exactly as designed. Then the sensor data comes in. Average occupied capacity across the portfolio sits between 9 and 11 percent. Peak capacity, concentrated into a narrow midweek window, reaches 52 to 60 percent. The booking system and the building are describing two different places. This is not a hypothetical - it is the pattern the ninth edition of the Occupancy Intelligence Index has now recorded consistently across a full year of measurement, and it is the moment a growing number of facility managers are confronting for the first time: the numbers they have always trusted were never measuring what they thought.

Workplace Insider Team Sep 9, 2026 4 min read

How the room shapes the work. Three data-driven essays a week on the office, the factory, the warehouse and the construction site.

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How Workplace Managers Outside Your Sector Handle Hybrid Space: Office vs. Campus vs. Hub

The Open Space That Emptied the Office Instead of Filling It: The Story of a Failure

The Workplace Manager in Five Years: From Square Footage to Behavioral Data

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How the room shapes the work. Three data-driven essays a week on the office, the factory, the warehouse and the construction site.

The Lead

What a warehouse’s walking routes revealed about its workstations

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How Workplace Managers Outside Your Sector Handle Hybrid Space: Office vs. Campus vs. Hub

The Open Space That Emptied the Office Instead of Filling It: The Story of a Failure

The Workplace Manager in Five Years: From Square Footage to Behavioral Data

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