What’s inside this edition

• Why teams commute to the office only to collaborate over Teams calls from different floors
• The hidden operational cost of “first come, first served” seating at enterprise scale
• How overcrowded zones and empty sections coexist inside the same building every day
• Why facilities teams are managing workplace decisions with outdated and disconnected data
• The real issue behind workplace friction: systems that track people and systems that manage space never actually talk to each other

Why this matters to you

• Collaboration breaks down when teams lose physical proximity
• Employees experience daily friction that never appears in reports or dashboards
• Facilities teams are forced into reactive management instead of intelligent planning
• The workplace experience after the badge swipe is still being left to chance