30% of Your Office Is Empty Right Now. Still, Companies Keep Planning for More Space.

On an average week, roughly a third of the office sits empty in the middle of operations. Still, companies keep planning for more space, because they plan around headcount and peak days instead of real presence. The pattern stays invisible as long as booking data, access data and actual occupancy are never brought together.

Johannes Eppler shows what happens when they are. Using anonymised presence and utilisation data from hybrid organisations, he demonstrates how office demand really behaves across the week, why the usual assumptions overstate space needs, and how teams turn that insight into concrete decisions: consolidating floors, rebalancing desks and meeting rooms, and making the days people do come in worth the commute.