What Is Scenario Planning? A Guide for Workplace and Real Estate Leaders
Scenario planning models several possible futures and a response to each. Workplace leaders use it to test lease, consolidation and RTO decisions first.
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Your Workplace Operating Model Determines Your Real Estate Cost
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. […]
The Intentional Gathering: How Smart Companies Are Designing Time Together
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, […]
Why the Workplace Needs a Digital Twin: Lessons From LSE and WPP
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.
SpaceOps: Built for What Happens 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 […]
The Junior Hiring Decline Is a Workplace Operations Problem
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.
What Is a Workplace Management System? Definition, Features and Benefits
A workplace management system is software that centralizes space, facilities and employee activity so leaders can see how the workplace performs and decide with data.
How to Implement a Workplace Management System: A Step-by-Step Enterprise Guide
Workplace management system implementation works when you set goals first, clean your data, roll out in phases and treat adoption as a metric.
How to Choose the Right Workplace Management Software: An Enterprise Buyer's Guide
Choosing workplace management software shapes how you allocate space, coordinate people and manage real estate costs for years. Here is how to evaluate it against outcomes, not features.
What Is an IWMS? IWMS vs Traditional Workplace Management Systems
An IWMS brings real estate, facilities, space, assets and operations into one platform. Here is how it differs from traditional workplace management systems.
The End Of Assigned Desks Is Not The End Of Belonging
Paul Allsopp’s article on the desk-sharing economy reads beautifully. It captures something real about the emotional experience of modern office life: the fear that as assigned desks disappear, employees are becoming “corporate nomads,” moving through the workplace like temporary visitors rather than people with a place to belong. But workplace culture has not become nomadic because […]
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, […]
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