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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, […]
At IFMA, Brian Elliott and I kept coming back to the same tension. AI is accelerating the speed of business, but workplace strategy is still too often built on assumptions from a more stable era. Companies want faster answers on growth, attendance, capacity, and cost, while workplace leaders are still dealing with leases, layouts, infrastructure, […]
Gen Z is choosing office time for mentorship, visibility and faster careers. Enterprise workplaces need the operations to turn that presence into performance.
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 […]
Over the past few years, the conversations we’ve been having with workplace, real estate, and operations leaders have started to sound very similar. They’re being asked to make space decisions with incomplete information and still stand behind them. These aren’t abstract planning questions. They’re operational decisions with financial, cultural, and human consequences. Once they’re made, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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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