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Employees value office time but struggle with noise, air quality: survey
Time in the office provides “social glue” and advancement opportunities, but building operators must use data to inform decision-making, XY Sense says.
The Great US Return: Office Mandates vs. Remote Work Resistance
The Workplace Showdown of 2025: America’s offices are at a crossroads. While headlines trumpet major corporations forcing employees back to their desks five days a week, the reality tells a more nuanced story.
Noise Pollution, Fluctuating Temperatures Deter Employees From the Office
According to the XY Sense report, 71 percent of respondents said that there is better collaboration in the office, with 80 percent saying that in-office work has improved their social life and well-being.
Global workplace utilisation rate goes up in 2024
The workplace utilisation rate went up across the world last year, according to a new report, reflecting the growing hybrid work and return-to-office initiatives among employers.
The Future of Work: How Smart Office Tech Is Leading the Way
Data from XY Sense reveals that global workplace utilization in Q3 2024 was 37% (up by 11% since Q3 2023), a clear signal that many office spaces are underutilized.
Employees value office time but struggle with noise, air quality: survey
Time in the office provides “social glue” and advancement opportunities, but building operators must use data to inform decision-making, XY Sense says.
Offices get busier as jobs market tightens
XY Sense Workplace Utilization Index for Q1 2024 shows a massive increase in APAC workplace attendance as the job market tightens.
XY Sense expands occupancy intelligence platform with Air-Quality insights
Despite Tech Woes, Australian Remote Work Grows
In the June quarter, average workplace utilisation – the share of total workplace space used regularly – increased to its highest level since the pandemic began, according to data published by XY Sense…
Australia news live
XY Sense was featured on the live Australian news blog on April 12th, 2024.
Most office workers are splitting their workdays between home and the office. Golf driving ranges have been a major beneficiary. But not everyone is happy about the trend.
Stop The Return To Office Nonsense
There’s a better way forward. We have a once-in-a-generation opportunity to realign our workspaces to drive maximum productivity …
All the ways offices got better in 2023
As the year comes to an end, we take a look at some examples of office design, management, and operations that are setting new standards for how to think about the physical workplace.
2023–2024 CBRE Global Workplace & Occupancy Insights
XY Sense was featured in CBRE’s latest Global Workplace & Occupancy Insights report which summarizes three years of office benchmarking and client sentiment surveys to identify how CBRE clients are creating efficient portfolios and effective work experiences in the wake of the pandemic.
Commercial property sector seeks flexibility
We are now looking at actual occupancy of circa 25% to 30% here in Australia.
“This is backed up by a recent study by XY Sense which shows office utilisation in the APAC region is only 27%.
RTO in 2024: Fast Company’s 8-point guide for designing an office your workers want to return to
Vigilancia en el trabajo: estos son nuevos métodos que usan las empresas
XY Sense, una empresa australiana, vende sensores que se pueden montar en los techos para escanear una oficina e identificar áreas muy transitadas …
Una quinta parte de los escritorios continúan vacíos en México
Faltan nuevos proyectos debido a que la demanda de espacios corporativos no crece por los esquemas híbridos
53pc of desks
sitting empty
every day
Four Ways To Use
Data To Rightsize
Your Workplace
In today’s softer economy, reducing business costs by downsizing office space is top of mind for many business leaders.
Reckoner Consulting’s Michael Lane Discusses the State of the Office
Office space utilization is at 30% globally (and only 20% in the U.S.) in the second quarter of 2023, according to XYSense, which is half of…
Crain's editorial:
Post-Labor Day RTO,
again
Workplace sensor provider XY Sense, which in August tracked nearly 25,000 unique work areas in nine regions of the world, including …
The ghastly
modern office
needs a reboot
The world of hybrid working has exposed wasteful, outdated designs that one Silicon Valley boss wants to blow up. …
Work Shift: How to Master
the Meeting That
Matters Most
The XY Sense WOrkplace Utilization Index for Q3 2023 survey from workplace-sensor provider XYSense found low usage.
Employees returning to the office? It’s not happening yet … especially not in the US ...
Zoom made headlines in August when the company told employees who live near an office to work from that space at least two days a week. …
Two under-the-radar ways bosses are tracking how full their offices are
Questions about how employees are using offices could become more pressing now that summer is fading in the US …
More than one in three
office desks sit empty
all week long
The report, from Melbourne-based workplace sensor provider XY Sense, found that 36 per cent of so-called workpoints are never occupied …
Global office underutilisation will waste US$400bn
in 2023
What an
empty workplace
tells us
There’s been no real ‘back to office’ after Covid. This has impacted urban spaces, livelihoods and city tax revenues. …
One in three Australian
office desks are
empty: report
One in three desks and cubicles in Australian offices remain empty all week, according to a new report that suggests the push to get workers back …
Employees working
remotely will
be disconnected
Around 36 percent of office desks sit idle all week, according to a new report from XY Sense, an Australian provider of workplace sensors. …
Global office use still at 50% of pre-pandemic levels despite RTO mandates
More than one-third of desks in offices around the globe are unoccupied all week, according to a new report, raising questions about …
Global office use still at 50% of pre-pandemic levels despite
RTO mandates
Despite a strong global push from executives to return to the office, a new report has found that office utilisation has remained at 50% …
One-Third of
Global Offices are
Empty All Week
If you don’t think entry-card swipes are an accurate way of measuring occupancy rates in your midtown building, how about a workplace sensor …
More than one-third of desks globally sit empty
all week long
More than one-third of desks in offices around the globe are unoccupied all week, according to a new report, raising questions about …
So few workers go into the office now that more than one-third of desks sit empty all week
Media titan Michael Bloomberg has had it with federal employees logging in from home, saying taxpayers are footing the bill for empty offices. …
More than one-third of desks globally sit empty
all week long
More than one-third of desks in offices around the globe are unoccupied all week, according to a new report, raising questions about …
More than one-third of desks globally sit empty
all week long
More than one-third of desks in offices around the globe are unoccupied all week, according to a new report, raising questions about …
More than one-third of desks
globally sit empty
all week long
More than one-third of desks in offices around the globe are unoccupied all week, according to a new report, raising questions about …
More than one-third of desks globally sit empty
all week long
More than one-third of desks in offices around the globe are unoccupied all week, according to a new report, raising questions about …
A third of desks
globally sit empty
all week long
More than one-third of desks in offices around the globe are unoccupied all week, according to a new report, raising questions about …
More than one-third of desks
globally sit empty
all week long
More than one-third of desks in offices around the globe are unoccupied all week, according to a new report, raising questions about …
More than one-third of desks globally
sit empty
all week long
More than one-third of desks in offices around the globe are unoccupied all week, according to a new report, raising questions about …
More than one-third of desks globally sit empty
all week long
More than one-third of desks in offices around the globe are unoccupied all week, according to a new report, raising questions about …
So few workers go into the office now that more than one-third of desks sit empty all week
More than one-third of desks in offices around the globe are unoccupied all week, according to a new report, raising questions about …
Workplace Utilisation Index Report Showed Office Occupancy Rates Stalled At 30% In Q2
Despite widespread reports of companies worldwide implementing “back to the office” policies, office utilisation remained at a mere 30% …
Despite Back-to-Office Mandates, Global Workplace Utilization
Was Flat in Q2
More than one-third of desks in offices around the globe are unoccupied all week, according to a new report, raising questions about …
Roughly 36% of Desks Globally Sit Empty, Is It Time To “Rethink The Humble Desk”?
A new report from Australian workplace sensor provider XY Sense says over one-third of desks in offices globally are vacant all week …
More than one-third of desks globally
sit empty
all week long
More than one-third of desks in offices around the globe are unoccupied all week, according to a new report, raising questions about …
More than one-third of desks in offices around the globe are unoccupied all week, according to a new report, raising questions about …
More than one-third of desks
globally sit empty
all week long
More than one-third of desks in offices around the globe are unoccupied all week, according to a new report, raising questions about …
More than one-third of desks
globally sit empty
all week long
More than one-third of desks in offices around the globe are unoccupied all week, according to a new report, raising questions about …
More than one-third of desks
globally sit empty
all week long
More than one-third of desks in offices around the globe are unoccupied all week, according to a new report, raising questions about …
Despite Global Back-to-Office Mandates, Global Workplace Utilization Was Flat in Q2
The Q2 XY Sense Workplace Utilization Index revealed that desite growing number of corporate retuirn-to-office mandates …
Tax Money Is Being
‘Wasted’ on
Remote Workers
Remote work might be popular among employees who like the flexibility and lower costs of working from home, but …
Mike Bloomberg: Tax Money
Is Being ‘Wasted’ on
Remote Workers
As Fortune noted, a new report from workplace utilization specialists XY Sense found that private-sector office use is “faring just as badly
Billionaire Mike Bloomberg
is tired of
remote work ‘excuses’
Media titan Michael Bloomberg has had it with federal employees logging in from home, saying taxpayers are footing the bill for empty offices. …
App to track social
distancing in the office
bags funding
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Australian Companies are Jumpting on the AI Wave. Here are the 20 Best
CBRE Global Workplace Solutions (GWS) announced the winners of its annual Supplier Innovation Challenge for North America …
Decoding Why the US Is
Lagging Behind in
Returning to the Office
CBRE Global Workplace Solutions (GWS) announced the winners of its annual Supplier Innovation Challenge for North America …
XY Sense Workplace Research: Hybrid Policies are Transforming Where & How We Work
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The “return to the office”
won’t save
the office
CBRE Global Workplace Solutions (GWS) announced the winners of its annual Supplier Innovation Challenge for North America …
CBRE Announces North American Winners for its Supplier Innovation Challenge
CBRE Global Workplace Solutions (GWS) announced the winners of its annual Supplier Innovation Challenge for North America …
Calven and XY Sense integration supercharges the workplace experience
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XY Sense Introduces Real-Time Integrations to Eliminate Ghost Bookings in Your Workplace
CBRE Global Workplace Solutions (GWS) announced the winners of its annual Supplier Innovation Challenge for North America …
Space Connect
integrates
with XY Sense
CBRE Global Workplace Solutions (GWS) announced the winners of its annual Supplier Innovation Challenge for North America …
Mirvac’s hybrid work trial
brings productivity and
comfort
Survey insights from Swinburne University, XY Sense sensor and occupancy data, direct user feedback and observational findings have been analysed to …
CBRE Announces North American Winners for its Supplier Innovation Challenge
CBRE Global Workplace Solutions (GWS) announced the winners of its annual Supplier Innovation Challenge for North America …
CBRE Announces North American Winners for its Supplier Innovation Challenge
CBRE Global Workplace Solutions (GWS) announced the winners of its annual Supplier Innovation Challenge for North America …
Vega Global Demonstrates How Videoconferencing and UC Tools Revolutionize Collaboration
At the booth, Vega Global, together with its partners Crestron, Microsoft, Sennheiser, Philips Jabra, Le Grand and XY Sense, highlighted …
CBRE Announces North American Winners for its Supplier Innovation Challenge
CBRE Global Workplace Solutions (GWS) announced the winners of its annual Supplier Innovation Challenge for North America …
CBRE Announces North American Winners for its Supplier Innovation Challenge
CBRE Global Workplace Solutions (GWS) announced the winners of its annual Supplier Innovation Challenge for North America …
Amazon AWS Announces Plans to Open Second Region in Australia
XY Sense is a technology startup using smart sensors and machine learning powered analytics to create technology-enabled workplaces.
XY Sense Raises
US$10M in
Total Funding
XY Sense, a Melbourne, Australia-based occupancy sensor and analytics platform for corporate real estate teams, raised …
CBRE
Digital-First
Enablement
CBRE Global Workplace Solutions (GWS) announced the winners of its annual Supplier Innovation Challenge for North America …
XY Sense raises $8M for workplace sensor technology business
XY Sense: Sensors to capture real time occupancy and space use to inform office occupancy and facilitate space and desk booking …
XY Sense Raises US$10M in Total Funding for Workplace Sensor Tech
The workplace of the future is set to look vastly different to that of today, with hybrid models of work, home and leisure blurring completely and …
This Melbourne startup helps businesses see how their offices are used
XY Sense has raised $5 million in seed funding to help it meet the growing demand for its smart sensor technology that …
Releases
Global Office Occupancy Reaches 'New Normal' at 40%: XY Sense Report
XY Sense, the most actionable occupancy intelligence platform for corporate real estate teams, today released its latest Workplace Utilization Index (WUI) report for the combined period Q4 ’24 and Q1 ’25.
XY Sense Appoints Jacqueline Hasler as Chief Operating Officer
Global finance and operations executive joins as XY Sense accelerates international growth amid RTO boom
New XY Sense Study: Noise and Meeting Room Shortages Undermine Office Productivity Despite Collaboration Benefits
A new global study from occupancy intelligence company XY Sense reveals the productivity benefits and pitfalls of teams returning to the office.
XY Sense Accelerates North American Expansion with New Leadership, Headquarters, and Customer Success Initiatives
XY Sense, the most actionable occupancy intelligence platform for corporate real estate teams, today announced a significant expansion of its presence in North America. …
XY Sense Launches
Replays
Workplace Visualizations
XY Sense, the most actionable occupancy intelligence platform for corporate real estate teams, today announced the launch of Replays. This innovative feature enables workplace leaders to see and review visualizations of real-time historical workplace utilization
Global Office Occupancy Reaches 'New Normal' at 40%: XY Sense Report
XY Sense, the most actionable occupancy intelligence platform for corporate real estate teams, today released its latest Workplace Utilization Index (WUI) report for the combined period Q4 2024 and Q1 2025.
Latest XY Sense Workplace Utilization Data: Despite Back-to-Office Mandates, Global Workplace Utilization Flat in Q2
Latest XY Sense Workplace Utilization Data: Despite Back-to-Office Mandates, Global Workplace Utilization Flat in Q2. …
XY Sense Launches Presence: Wireless Solution for Real-Time Monitoring of Compact Spaces
New sensor enables companies to unlock occupancy insights from office phone booths, small meeting rooms and focus areas, without a wired install. …
Global Workplace Utilization Jumps 36% in Q1: XY Sense Study
Working from the office is back. Global workplace utilization grew to its highest level in four years, jumping by 36% over the Q4 2023 level, according to the latest report from XY Sense. …
Global Workplace Utilization Up 11 points in Q3 2024: XY Sense Workplace Utilizaiton Index Study
New Workplace Utilization Index reveals APAC workplace utilization skyrocketed, North America showed growth. …
XY Sense Launches New Detection Algorithm
with Market-Leading
Accuracy
Developed by XY Sense’s in-house team of machine learning experts, version two of the XY Sense detection algorithm (XYDA2.0) utilizes …
XY Sense Workplace Research Study Shows Hybrid Workplace Policies Transforming Where and How We Work
XY Sense has raised $5 million in seed funding to help it meet the growing demand for its smart sensor technology that …
XY Sense Announces
Real-Time Integrations
to End Ghost Bookings
in Your Office
The XY Sense Occupancy API makes it simple to integrate powerful real time sensor data into workplace experience and booking platforms. …
XY Sense Wins Innovation of the Year Award at the CBRE Global Workplace Solutions (GWS) Supplier Innovation Challenge
XY Sense Secures a Total of US$10M to Rapidly Increase Demand for Leading Occupancy Sensor & Analytics Platform
XY Sense announced it raised an $8M Pre-Series A funding round, led by InterValley Ventures with participation from strategic investor JCI …
XY Sense raises
$AUD5m
to transform workplaces
with data
XY Sense announced the completion of its initial seed funding round, with $AUD5m in funding from leading Australian venture fund, Blackbird Ventures …
