Stop Guessing: Your RTO Policy Is Flawed Without This Key Data
You’ve read the headlines. You’ve set the RTO policy. But here’s the reality: $15 per square foot of your leased space is completely wasted because you’re planning your workplace based on national averages instead of your own data. Where are the actionable workplace design insights relevant to your teams and specific population?
Walk through your organization’s workplace today. Does it feel vibrant, or is it quiet? Are people collaborating in the open areas, or are they hiding in meeting rooms?
If you’re like most leaders, you’ve been devouring news articles about return-to-office (RTO) and hybrid work. But here’s the uncomfortable truth: statistics from the news will tell you absolutely nothing about your organization’s actual workplace.
Why Benchmarks Fall Short: The Hidden Cost
The headlines are full of benchmark data: the average office occupancy, the most popular RTO day, or the 3-day-a-week adoption rate. They provide a high-level view, but they aggregate data across a wide variety of industries, sizes, and locations.
A financial firm in Manhattan has fundamentally different needs than a tech startup in Austin. Relying on these averages is like trying to plan your dinner based on your neighbor’s grocery list. This reliance on ‘average’ is the single biggest hidden cost in modern corporate real estate. Unless you make use of the data available about your particular workspace, you’re no further ahead.
STOP GUESSING: How to Turn Furniture Interactions into Hard Data
The real, unvarnished truth about how your employees work is being generated every single day, right under your nose.
People are interacting with your furniture every day. They are choosing where to sit, where to meet, and where to focus. Every one of those interactions is a data point—an invisible vote for a particular piece of furniture, a zone, or an entire floor.
The challenge is capturing this information effectively. That’s where MYSEAT comes in. We capture these interactions anonymously and then start quantifying which floors, zones, rooms, and furniture are high or low performing. Our non-invasive sensors and proprietary platform reveal:
Which collaboration areas are underutilized
Which focus desks are being monopolized
The optimal size and layout for your future meeting rooms
Actionable Workplace Design Insights, Not Just Data Dumps.
It’s one thing to see a graph showing that “Floor 3 is only 40% utilized.” It’s another thing entirely to know what to do with that information.
We deliver so much more than a sensor. MYSEAT provides actionable insights from our design team—experts who know how to translate utilization data into spatial design recommendations.
Stop guessing what your employees want and start knowing for sure.
Ready to stop basing your biggest real estate decisions on guesswork? Book a 15-minute demo to see your office utilization data come to life. www.myseat.io
Your thoughts? Are you seeing a disconnect between your RTO policy and actual office usage? Let me know in the comments what your biggest struggle is with workplace utilization data!