About

Fifty notes on occupancy analytics, written for whoever has to make a decision with the data.

Who it is for

People responsible for property, workplace or building operations. Not security teams: the subject here is the space, not the people in it, and the distinction is held throughout.

The position

A sensor shows presence, not value. The gap between the reading and the decision is where the expensive mistakes are made.

The measure changes the measured. Once a figure affects budgets or jobs, behaviour adapts to it and the readings stop meaning what they meant.

Most programmes collect far more than their question needs, which costs money and creates obligations nobody wanted.

What is deliberately absent

Product and supplier names.

Accuracy percentages, because the ones in circulation were measured by interested parties under favourable conditions.

And benchmark comparisons, which almost never state their denominators and are therefore unusable.

Nothing here is legal advice

Data protection, consultation requirements and the permissibility of particular methods differ substantially by jurisdiction. Take advice on your own position.

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