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I spent an hour last week with twenty workplace and real estate leaders from Europe and North America, along with Brian Elliott, CEO of Work Forward and executive-in-residence at Charter. He’s also an advisor and investor in Kadence. A few things are worth carrying back to your teams. Most of what’s being called AI transformation […]
Most councils decide to consolidate office space before they can prove it is the right call. The saving appears in the medium term financial plan, a target is attached to it, and the estates team is then asked to produce evidence for a decision that has effectively already been announced. That sequence is normal across […]
Ask a university what its space utilization is and you will usually get a single figure. Ask what that figure is made of and the answer becomes much less stable, because in a university more than in almost any other kind of organization, a utilization number is an average taken across spaces that behave in […]
CBRE says AI is already influencing space-planning decisions for 23% of occupiers. The workplace leaders I talk to are watching the rest of the company get lost, with tools that do not help them keep up. CBRE’s 2026 Americas Office Occupier Sentiment Survey put a number on a feeling a lot of workplace leaders already had. In […]
The most influential forecast in commercial real estate just floated a new job title, and I think it is the most important idea in the entire report. In this year’s PwC and ULI outlook, in a passage about how occupiers are reorganizing their floors, is the suggestion that coordinating where teams sit may soon become […]
Our team at Kadence was recently in a conversation with a large enterprise, and one thing a workplace leader on their side said has stuck with me. This particular company has publicly, very publicly, re-auged multiple times already this year and the Workplace team are feeling it. When a reorg hits and you have to […]
The market has already repriced your real estate. It did not ask whether you wanted to participate. Values have corrected, leases are getting shorter and smaller, and new supply has effectively stopped. What has not changed, in most enterprises, is how the lease decision itself gets made. That is the gap I want to close […]
Most enterprise leaders can tell you their headcount, their cost per square foot, and their target occupancy. Far fewer can tell you, in a single sentence, how their organization actually allocates space. They know the floor is busy on Tuesdays and quiet on Fridays. They know real estate is one of their largest fixed costs. […]
I’ve been thinking a lot about what equals work. Ask a carpenter to break down their job, and they’ll talk about specific tools, assembly processes, and tangible results. There’s a clear relationship between input, process, and output. But ask someone in knowledge work, and you’ll get: “I type on a keyboard, I sit in calls, […]
Digital twins already run hospitals, factories and energy grids. At a June 2026 Kadence breakfast, LSE's Prithwiraj Choudhury and WPP's Bex Moorhouse explained why the workplace is next.
Something Rory from our Product Engineering Team said recently has stayed with me. Most workspace tools, he explained, are good at telling you what happened. What floor engineering used last Wednesday. How many desks were occupied in Q3. Which neighborhoods ran at capacity and which sat empty. What they are not built to do is […]
Generative AI took the blame for falling junior hiring. The Broken Ladder paper points to remote work instead, which makes it a problem organizations can solve.
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