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Ideas, news and practical perspectives on the workplace.
Office space is your organization’s second-biggest cost. And the decisions that shape it are being made right now by senior people working from AI space planning software data they can’t fully trust. The headcount came from HR. But HR doesn’t track who actually shows up. The stack plan took three months. Then a team restructured, […]
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, […]
For years, room displays have been treated as signage. A screen on a wall. A color indicator. A calendar no one fully trusts. That approach worked when workplaces were simpler. When one office managed one set of rooms. When utilization data didn’t matter. When the gap between what was booked and what was actually used […]
Workplace operations now sit at the center of enterprise performance. Real estate represents one of the largest fixed costs on the balance sheet. Workforce expense remains the largest operating cost. Technology investment continues to expand. At the same time, executive teams are demanding clearer evidence that workplace decisions are driving measurable return. Despite this, many […]
In March 2026, Kadence announced a strategic partnership with Archilogic, the spatial data platform, connecting Archilogic floor plan data with Kadence SpaceOps.
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, […]
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, […]
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 […]
For a long time, visitor management was treated as a front-desk task. A clipboard, a paper log, a quick badge, and you’re done. That approach worked until workplaces scaled. Until offices became distributed. Until compliance tightened. Until front desks became leaner. Until visitor volume became unpredictable. Today, visitor management is a core part of workplace […]
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 […]
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