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Workplace Research & Analytics
We study how people actually use space — occupancy, movement, meeting behaviour, sentiment — and turn it into evidence.
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Measure → Strategize → Design → Build
Modern offices are still designed on taste. Yours can be designed on evidence.
Focus work and collaboration are pulling office design in opposite directions. We measure which one your people are actually here to do — then plan, design and build the space around the answer.
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- Peak utilisation seen
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- Typical area released
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- Partners needed
Peak desk utilisation rarely passes 60% — even on the busiest weekday.Meeting rooms booked for 8 people are used by 2–3 people most of the time.Focus work is the #1 reason people still commute to an office.Tuesday–Thursday carries ~70% of weekly office attendance.Badge data overstates presence; sensor data tells you where people actually sit.Every 10% of released floorplate is real, recurring rent off the balance sheet.Neighbourhood-based layouts cut internal walking distance by a third.Acoustic complaints outrank temperature complaints in open-plan surveys.Space demand should be sized on peak day, not on headcount.Wayfinding failures show up as late meeting starts before they show up in surveys.Peak desk utilisation rarely passes 60% — even on the busiest weekday.Meeting rooms booked for 8 people are used by 2–3 people most of the time.Focus work is the #1 reason people still commute to an office.Tuesday–Thursday carries ~70% of weekly office attendance.Badge data overstates presence; sensor data tells you where people actually sit.Every 10% of released floorplate is real, recurring rent off the balance sheet.Neighbourhood-based layouts cut internal walking distance by a third.Acoustic complaints outrank temperature complaints in open-plan surveys.Space demand should be sized on peak day, not on headcount.Wayfinding failures show up as late meeting starts before they show up in surveys.
Empowering Workspaces and People
A consultancy that sits between the spreadsheet and the floor plan.
WAR bridges corporate workplace strategy and physical design. Instead of designing offices around aesthetics alone, we research how people work — where they focus, when they collaborate, what they avoid — and generate the data that makes a design decision defensible.
That research becomes a workplace strategy: how much space, what mix of settings, what hybrid policy, what it costs. And because we execute alongside our sister studio, the evidence survives all the way to the finished space rather than getting lost in a handover.
One partner covering the full journey from data to built workspace.
Three pillars
What we do
Each pillar can be commissioned on its own — most clients start with research.
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Workplace Strategy
We translate research into a workspace plan that holds up for today's headcount and the next three years of it.
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Design & Build
We execute the strategy into a physical, functional and aesthetically considered space.
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Client identities stay confidential. The numbers don't.
Travel & Hospitality
Confidential OTA Client
A hybrid return-to-office policy with no evidence base.
Attendance and utilisation analysis produced a three-day anchor-day policy that held above 70% compliance.
EV Manufacturing
Confidential EV Tech Client
Rapid headcount growth across three sites.
A space-programming calculator that sizes any new site in minutes instead of weeks.
Legal
Confidential Law Firm Client
Partner offices consuming most of the floor plate.
Workstyle-based design released 22% of area to focus rooms and client-facing space.
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