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24. October 2025

Why It’s Time to Measure Your Office — Continuously

AzmanJaka

Most workplaces today suffer from the same silent problem: the space you pay for and the space people actually use no longer match.

Hybrid work didn’t create this mismatch — it exposed it. And facility managers are expected to fix it without the one thing that makes decisions reliable: continuous evidence.

The problem with guessing

Too many organizations still rely on old surveys, one-time studies, or hopeful assumptions.

That’s how you end up with:

  • Empty desks but no meeting rooms

  • Rooms that appear “booked” but stay half empty

  • Floors people avoid

  • Cleaning, heating, and maintenance wasted on unused areas

You can’t fix inefficiency you can’t see. And you can’t see it if you measure only once.

Why a one-off study isn’t enough

A snapshot tells you a moment — not a pattern.

Hybrid use shifts weekly. Teams move, roles change, seasons distort averages.
Last spring’s report already lies to you by autumn.

If your goal is to improve cost efficiency, energy performance, and the employee experience, then outdated data is a liability — not a baseline.

Continuous measurement: the new operational discipline

When you monitor your space continuously, the blind spots disappear. Patterns emerge that fundamentally change decision-making:

  • When occupancy actually peaks

  • Which areas attract people — and which fail

  • Where collaboration thrives

  • Where space quietly drains budget without delivering value

This isn’t “more data for the sake of it. ”It’s operational clarity.

Continuous analytics give you something facilities have lacked for years: a stable, shared reality to plan against.

If you want people back, you need to know what they come for

Many companies want higher attendance.

But very few can answer:

  • Do we have enough focus rooms?

  • Too many desks?

  • The right mix of social vs. quiet space?

  • Layouts that match how teams actually work?

Continuous data exposes real demand — not what people say in a survey, but what they do. Without that insight, “improvements” are simply expensive guesses.

Turning measurement into a practice

Continuous occupancy analytics isn’t a tool. It’s a way of running your workplace.

It shifts you from:

  • reacting → anticipating

  • debating → aligning

  • redesigning once → tuning continuously

  • big costly projects → small decisions with big impact

Over time, the workplace becomes a living system you understand — not a static layout you hope works.

The real cost of not knowing

Unused space is not neutral. It drains energy, cleaning hours, maintenance, and capital.
And it steals the opportunity to create the kinds of spaces that would bring people back.

Doing nothing quietly becomes the most expensive decision.

The new standard for workplace management

The organizations performing best today don’t measure their office once a year. They keep a pulse — because their workplace changes every week.

Continuous analytics is how they reduce waste, improve satisfaction, and justify every square meter they operate.

Want to see how your office really performs?

Test our interactive Walnut demo and uncover peak days, unused zones, and real utilization patterns — the exact insights facility teams need before making costly decisions.

Experience EG Worksense

Get a glimpse of EG Worksense through this demo, where we showcase occupancy analytics in action. Please note that this is just one part of the full solution – EG Worksense offers much more to support smart, data-driven workplaces.

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