Fast answerUse attendance by day, team and activity. Average attendance can understate the recurring peak that drives seats, rooms and support spaces.
Plan for work modes
Estimate focus, collaboration, calls, confidential work, learning, social and client activity. Give each mode an appropriate acoustic and technology setting.
Test sharing rules
Define who may share seats, how booking works, where belongings go and what happens when planned capacity is exceeded.
Model growth and volatility
Run attendance, hiring and policy scenarios. Identify space that can flex without rebuilding the entire workplace.
Learn after occupancy
Track attendance, room demand, noise, employee experience and service issues, then adjust settings and policies using observed evidence.
Evidence boundary: office availability and quoted economics change. Confirm current premises, authority, area, costs, permitted use and documents for the specific transaction. Read the methodology.