Ali Carson

Kadence

Ali Carson

Ali is a Data Scientist at Kadence, combining her love for math and data to explore how people are thriving in the hybrid world. Passionate about uncovering insights, she’s dedicated to making sense of the numbers that shape our new ways of working. Outside of work, Ali is a proud cat mum to two cats and an active field hockey player, competing in the All-Ireland League every weekend.

· Future Of Work

Kadence Pulse: The Space Planning Problems Portfolio Averages Can’t See

Welcome to Kadence Pulse. This series uses aggregated and anonymized data from Kadence customers to understand how workplace behavior is changing at scale. I’m Ali Carson, a Data Scientist at Kadence. My role is to analyze workplace data to understand how offices are really being used day to day. In this edition of Kadence Pulse, […]

· Future Of Work

Kadence Pulse: How Culture Shapes Workplace Operations

Welcome to Kadence Pulse. This series uses aggregated and anonymized data from Kadence customers to understand how workplace behavior is changing at scale. Rather than focusing on individual offices or policies, each Pulse looks at a single signal in the data and what it reveals about how workplace operations actually function. I’m Ali Carson, a […]

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Kadence Wrapped: How You Used Kadence in 2025

Welcome to Kadence Wrapped 2025! In 2025, workplace behavior stopped looking experimental and started looking intentional. Across millions of desk and room bookings, clear patterns emerged around when people came in, how they collaborated, and how reliably offices were used. The data does not simply show more activity. It shows greater operational maturity. Offices were […]

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Kadence Pulse: The Return of Real Meetings

Welcome to Kadence Pulse. In this edition, we look at how team meetings are evolving and what that shift tells us about modern workplace operations. Hybrid work has moved past the phase of chaos. For Kadence customers, it has settled into a predictable, midweek, team-first operating rhythm. The data from 2024 and 2025 shows a […]

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Kadence Pulse: What Predictability Says About Office Use

Welcome to Kadence Pulse, where we explore how hybrid work is unfolding through real-world data from the Kadence platform. In this edition, we’re moving past averages to examine something more telling: the shape of office use across different business sectors. From consistency to chaos, and from bursty collaboration to habitual rhythms, the story isn’t just […]

· Space Optimization

What Insights Plus Reveals About The State Of Hybrid Work

At Kadence, we built Insights Plus to help companies answer complex workplace questions using their own data—without having to wrangle spreadsheets or guess at behavior patterns. Over the past few months, I’ve worked directly with customers who had important questions about how their people were using the office. These weren’t theoretical—they were tactical, operational questions that needed […]

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Kadence Pulse: Unpacking Office Utilization Trends By Sector

Welcome to Kadence Pulse, our deep dive into how hybrid work is evolving—powered by real-time desk booking data from our customers using Kadence. After a year of settling into hybrid rhythms, the first half of 2025 is showing signs of structural change in how different sectors are using office space. Our latest analysis — drawn from […]

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Kadence Pulse: The American Work Ethic—Is Longer Always Better?

Welcome to Kadence Pulse—our regular deep dive into hybrid work trends, behaviors, and insights pulled straight from the data of thousands of our global users. In this edition, we’re turning our attention to the American work ethic. Known globally for its hustle culture, the U.S. is showing a noticeable trend in extended office hours—even in the […]

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Kadence Pulse: The Magic Number Is 2

Kadence Pulse is our new data-driven series where we uncover key trends in hybrid work, using insights straight from Kadence’s platform. Our goal is to help businesses and employees understand how hybrid work is evolving and how they can make smarter, more informed decisions. The way we work has changed forever, and at Kadence, we […]

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