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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 wort

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 e

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 num

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 Surv

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 t

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 th

The most widely read forecast in real estate just gave a name to something the rest of us have been circling for two years. In its 2026 edition, now in its 47th year, PwC and the Urban Land Institute ran a spotlight titled "From Proptech to PropOS." The a

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 Workp

Managing office space used to be a static exercise. Teams were assigned to floors, departments were clustered by function, and any changes meant redrawing plans from scratch. But in modern workplaces, the pace of organizational change has made that model

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 th