Why Occupancy Is Not Workplace Strategy
CRE leaders, FM, workplace strategists
What can occupancy data decide alone — and what can it not?
Occupancy explains observed use, never demand, preference or cause. Strategies built on utilisation alone systematically confuse adaptation with preference and cut the space people needed rather than the space they avoided for fixable reasons.
- The seduction of the utilisation number
- What occupancy measures and what it cannot
- Three real misreadings and their costs
- Occupancy's proper role: validating and challenging demand evidence
- Occupancy measurement validity studies
- Triangulation methodology literature
- Post-occupancy evaluation research
References Occupancy's positioning: validates, challenges and enriches demand — never replaces it.
Occupancy Assessment
Occupancy validates, challenges and enriches workplace demand — measuring how space is actually used, not how its use is reported.
Dynamics Assessment
A structured workforce assessment capturing reported People and Process demand: work patterns, activities, locations, preferences, experience and reported occupancy.
Targeted Insights
Focused mixed-method investigations that explain specific contradictions the broad evidence has surfaced but cannot resolve.