Gen Z Is Choosing the Office. Is Your Workplace Ready?
Gen Z is choosing office time for mentorship, visibility and faster careers. Enterprise workplaces need the operations to turn that presence into performance.
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Dan Bladen
Dan is at the helm of Kadence with a sole mission to turn workplaces into vibrant, happy spaces where everyone can thrive. When he’s not busy changing the world of work, you’ll find Dan soaking up the natural, untamed beauty of California’s outdoors with his family on camping adventures.
AI Is Reshaping Work. The Workplace Must Catch Up.
If you wanted evidence that AI in the enterprise workplace has moved beyond experimentation, you didn’t have to look far this past week. Accenture announced that it is linking employee promotions to AI tool usage, signaling a structural shift in performance expectations. AI literacy is no longer a technical skill reserved for innovation teams. It […]
Kadence Introduces AI-Driven Visitor Management System to Power Modern Workplace Operations
New self-service kiosks, AI-assisted invites, automated check-in, and real-time visibility unify visitor activity with workplace intelligence, natively inside the Kadence platform San Francisco, CA — January 27, 2026 — Kadence, the leading workplace operations platform for global enterprises, today announced the launch of its newly rebuilt Visitor Management System (VMS), designed to automate visitor operations, […]
How Bloomberg Designs Its Office Around Movement, Not Desks
Most organisations face the same constraint. They want more interaction between teams, but they cannot change the building. Floors are leased. Cores are fixed. Vertical separation is inherited rather than designed. Kadence SpaceOps addresses this problem operationally. It allows organisations to model how teams move through space, test how different layouts affect interaction, and adjust […]
Why Amazon Is Tracking Office Hours
Amazon is no longer just tracking whether employees come into the office. It is tracking how long they stay. In December, the company rolled out a manager dashboard that measures employees’ in-office hours across a rolling eight-week period. The system categorises workers based on duration rather than attendance alone, flagging those who spend fewer than […]
How Google Designs Offices Around How Teams Actually Work
Google did not build their offices at the Bay View campus to look impressive. It built it to work better. As organizations scale, coordination becomes harder to maintain. Teams drift apart. Dependencies stretch across floors and buildings. Decisions slow down, not because people stop communicating, but because the physical environment no longer reflects how the […]
Why Your Office Is Busy on Tuesdays and Empty on Fridays
By 2026, uneven office attendance is no longer surprising. What surprises leaders is how persistent it is. Tuesdays and Wednesdays are crowded. Mondays and Fridays remain quiet, even in organizations with clear in-office expectations. This pattern appears across sectors, geographies, and workplace strategies. Yet it is still often discussed as an employee behavior issue rather […]
The Enterprise Workplace Operations Playbook for 2026
It’s 2026, and the workplace conversation has shifted. The question is no longer whether the office matters, whether hybrid work is permanent, or whether employees want flexibility. Those debates are largely settled. What remains unresolved is far more practical: how to operate the workplace so it actually works for the organization and the people inside […]
How to Measure Collaboration in the Workplace
Measure collaboration by what teams do, not how they feel: in-person overlap, meeting alignment, clustering by day and location, and whether space helps.
What Employees Want From the Office in 2026: A Workplace That Works
Employees in 2026 do not want stricter attendance rules or more perks. They want an office that runs predictably, supports collaboration and respects their time.
Riding Into 2026: Talking Workplace With Brian Elliott
There is something fitting about talking about the future of work while sitting in the back of a Waymo gliding through San Francisco. An autonomous car is a real-time example of systems quietly rewiring themselves. What looks like a neat consumer experience is actually the result of deep structural changes in how data, infrastructure, and […]
Tracy Hawkins Of OpenAI Joins Kadence’s Advisory Board
Today marks an exciting new chapter for Kadence. We’re thrilled to announce that Tracy Hawkins, VP of Real Estate and Workplace at OpenAI, has joined Kadence as a Strategic Advisor. Tracy Hawkins is one of the world’s most respected workplace leaders, known for helping organizations like OpenAI, Grammarly, and Twitter design environments that empower people […]
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