Kadence journal
Ideas, news and practical perspectives on the workplace.
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 […]
Book desks, run the office, and get answers about your space in plain language, without leaving the assistant you already have open. Most AI in workplace software so far has been additive: a text box in the corner of a product, answering questions about the product it sits inside. That is useful, and it is […]
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 […]
Stack planning shows how teams occupy floors and buildings so leaders can test moves, mergers and consolidations before making them. Here is how it works and why it matters.
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 […]
Office space utilization measures how much of an office is used, and how, over time. Here is how to measure it reliably and turn it into occupancy planning and floor plan decisions.
Office space planning was once a one-time exercise: lay out the floor, assign the desks, and revisit it in a few years. That model no longer fits how organizations operate. Office space planning has become an ongoing strategic discipline that touches real estate, headcount, hybrid policy, and employee experience at the same time. This guide […]
Move management is the practice of planning and executing workplace changes so people, space and resources stay aligned, from desk changes to full relocations.
Next step
Thirty minutes with a workplace strategist. Bring a floor you are unsure about.