Reducing Space: the Decision and Its Evidence
The decision occupancy programmes are usually bought to support. What evidence actually supports it and what does not.
Decisions
Acting on it
Low utilisation has two readings: too much space, or the wrong space. The second is more often correct.
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Redesigning Rather Than Shrinking
The response that occupancy data usually supports better than reduction, and that is proposed far less often.
Booking Policy Changes
The cheapest interventions available, each supported by a specific number, each resisted for the same reason.
Cleaning, Catering and Facilities Scheduling
The uses that pay for an occupancy programme quietly, without any of the controversy attached to space reduction.
Energy and HVAC Driven by Occupancy
The oldest use of occupancy sensing, the one with clearest payback, and the failure modes that make people distrust it.
What the Data Cannot Justify
Decisions that get attributed to occupancy data and are not supported by it. Naming them protects both the decision and the programme.