Our Consulting team’s close engagement with the client from the early planning stage allowed us to help them develop a re-imagined workspace to achieve their objectives. They wanted the site to be a natural offshoot of their approach to business, convey their purpose and express their unique vision and values to employees and clients.

A key challenge was meeting a tight deadline: the firm needed to relocate a 2400-employee operation in just three months.

From the outset, we collaborated with the real estate broker, assisting in accelerating the selection of an appropriate location. Along the way, we recognized that the current metrics used to evaluate site suitability were no longer practical in today’s ever-evolving work environment, and we wanted to assure the firm that they were making the right decision in terms of size, space, and location. In fact, our keen understanding of how employees engage and experience space and how workspaces influence productivity, helped move them forward with confidence during the decision-making process.

Our research-based real estate strategy uses a “scorecard” to assure that people, planning, and place were in an ideal alignment with the company’s objectives. On their behalf, we tracked 150,000+ data points that cover aspects and attributes of corporate culture, organizational transformation, human behavior, daily staff activity patterns, productivity, communication, technology, performance expectations, work-life balance, and more.

Our thoroughly holistic approach resulted in a short list of real estate options ranked for consideration. The final determination resulted in a 59% reduction in space needed, and a seamless transition back to the office. Some 82% of employees expressed satisfaction with the transition.

Besides attaining buy-in from key staff, the process was also successful in gaining agreement among company leadership regarding their vision for the future.