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**Report Highlights Global Shift Toward Experience-Focused Workplace Strategies**
Leading organizations are adapting to evolving workplace demands by embracing data-driven strategies, with portfolio optimization emerging as the top priority for corporate real estate leaders—surpassing traditional cost-cutting measures. This insight comes from JLL’s newly released 2025 Global Occupancy Planning Benchmark Report.
The report, which draws from data across 99 global organizations and encompasses over 745 million square feet of commercial real estate, emphasizes that space utilization data has been the most valuable metric for the third consecutive year. However, despite its importance, only 7% of surveyed organizations rate their data capabilities as “excellent,” highlighting a substantial gap in effective data usage.
JLL also notes that workplace structures are stabilizing, with hybrid models becoming more defined and fully flexible policies on the decline. There is a marked shift toward structured hybrid arrangements, including mandated in-office days. Despite greater governance over workplace strategies, only 38% of organizations say they deploy formal change management programs to support these transitions.
Additionally, the report points to the evolving nature of office design, including changes in space standards and the expansion of technical areas and collaboration zones—key elements in enhancing employee experience.
This research reflects a growing shift from cost-focused real estate planning to strategies that prioritize workplace experience and effectiveness.
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