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Insights

Method, published

The measurement, the assumptions and the limits: written down where anyone can check them. Not thought leadership; the working notes of a research practice that has been running since 2001. Twenty-two pieces so far.

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Twenty-two pieces so far, each one stating the method behind any figure it quotes.

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Return-To-Office Mandates In UK Government: The Human Cost Behind The Policy

UK Civil Service return-to-office mandates are hitting wellbeing, retention and trust. Why blanket attendance rules failed.

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The Different Ways to Measure Workplace Occupancy

Observation studies, Wi-Fi sensing, triangulation, beacons, IoT sensors, computer vision and reservation data compared: what each method measures, what it costs and where it stops.

Rapport ·

From Activity To Experience To Decisions: The Evolution Of Workplace Strategy

Activity-based working optimised for tasks, experience-based working for wellbeing. Neither answers how to make an objective workplace decision that balances cost, experience and performance.

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Open Office vs Activity-Based Working: what works best for today's workplace?

Neither model is universally better. What decides it is how your people actually work, and whether the protocols and change management behind the layout exist at all.

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The Hidden Cost Of Flexibility: how proximity bias could hold UAE women back in 2026

The UAE is extending flexible work to Emirati mothers. Without deliberate design, proximity bias turns that flexibility into a pay and promotion penalty, and visa-per-square-metre rules make it worse.

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Should I Stay In My Current Office, Or Move To A New Location?

A 1,200-person scale-up assumed it needed 13,500 m². Modelling actual activity put the real need at 10,000, and the decision to stay saved $1.2M a year.

Workplace Codex

Knowledge in this field is scattered across vendor blogs, closed consultancies and paywalled journals. Workplace Codex is our answer to that: a set of domain sites that open up one knowledge area each, published rather than gated.

October 2026: The FM Atlas

The first domain site: facility management, mapped. What the disciplines are, how they relate, and where the evidence for each of them actually sits.

November 2026: Workplace Strategy

The second domain site, opening up the strategy side: the methods, the models and the decisions they serve.

In development: WorkplaceCodex.com

The index above them: one entry point to every domain, with consistent definitions across all of them.

Workplace Codex, and when each part opens

The FM Atlas opens in October 2026 at thefmatlas.com, open and without registration. The two sites above it are in development and have no address yet — we would rather say that than publish a link that does not open.

Forty years of research, through IFMEC Academy

Alongside what we publish ourselves, the IFMEC Academy library opens up forty years of research into Building, People and Services. A body of work begun by Leo Laanen in 1986, eight years before IFMEC was founded, and largely absent from the open web.