Anatomy of Occupancy Analytics

Measure. Correct. Analyse. Evidence.

Our guide to using the Anatomy

The essential guide to understanding occupancy

Welcome to the Anatomy of Occupancy Analytics

This resource is for anyone involved in occupancy. It is for workplace planners and real estate portfolio strategists; operations directors and facility managers; transformation leaders and digital workplace specialists; community curators and finance directors.

The information is presented in a number of ways to make it as easy as possible to access:

  • The story so far provides fictitious examples based on real experiences that bring out why these topics are important and how they can impact space decision making
  • Two reference sections – the fundamentals and the anatomy – provide a linear text-book like route through the content
  • Worked examples support both the reference sections and the stories to illustrate key concepts with practical examples
  • The glossary provides a quick way of accessing the core definitions upon which the resource is built

For more information, see our guide to using the anatomy, or go ahead and browse the resource using the menu at the top.

The story so far...

  • Royal Institution Lecture Theatre

    It’s unwise to guess lecture room sizes

    22 Aug , 2019

    The University of the North reluctantly decided that it had to imitate its rivals and open a London satellite campus (UNLS). A search for suitable premises led to a lease on four floors of Mistral House, a commercial building of the 1970s in a central but affordable location.

  • Permanent confusion

    18 Feb , 2019

    “Tracy – I’m going to need your help with this one – are you free at two?”. John had just got off the phone with his CRE country head in Poland, Tomasz, and Tomasz was in a bind: his COO, Franciszka, had blocked Tomasz’ proposal to refit the HQ and avoid relocation.

  • Unintended consequences

    03 Jan , 2019

    Really Big Inc. was doing well. Turnover was up for the fifth year in a row and at a record high in their one hundred year history. Profits had dipped a bit but were still ok. According to most analysts, they had weathered the market uncertainty. But there was a pinch.

  • Mistaken belief that workstation sharing requires hot-desking

    07 Nov , 2018

    Cleverco is a successful accountancy firm with offices in London and Manchester, both with about 150 people. Looking around the London office, Stephen Tomkins, the Head of Facilities and Estates, sees many empty workstations.

  • Double-cross(check)

    08 Oct , 2018

    “This will be great – the ops board love cost savings and this is the biggest one anybody has proposed this year, more than a quarter of a million dollars! This could be the start of them taking us more seriously.

Reference

Reference

Structured in two sections, the Fundamentals covering the basic concepts and definitions, and the Anatomy discussing the four essential components of Occupancy Analytics.

FundamentalsAnatomy

Recent updates

The Anatomy is a constant work in progress. To help you keep up to date, here are the most recent sections we have been working on:
  • Glossary
    24 June, 2022
  • Fundamentals
    Measure what is important; don't make important what you can measure.Robert S. McNamara Understanding occupancy has never been more important. It is the fundamental driver of space demand and ther [...]
    22 September, 2019
  • Anatomy
    Having established the Fundamentals, this section explores the practicalities of gathering data and the various methods that can be employed to analyze the data. The ultimate goal is to provide evide [...]
    22 September, 2019
  • About
    The Anatomy of Occupancy Analytics project was conceived in late 2017 by Chris Lees in an attempt to bring greater consistency and rigour to the application of data and evidence in understanding occu [...]
    22 September, 2019