We help employers optimize the impact of their in-office, hybrid, and remote workplace strategies

We have a proven track record in helping medium-size and large employers develop, pilot, and scale workplace and workforce strategies that optimize:

Space Usage/Office Costs

Employee Productivity and Performance

Flexible Work (mobile work, telecommuting, telework)

Hybrid Workplace Strategies (remote work, mobile work, work from home, telecommuting, telework)

Employee Engagement, Wellness, and Well-Being

Activity-Based Working

Alternative Workplace Strategies/Coworking

Here are some of the specific ways we have helped employers optimize their workplace and workforce strategies:

Workplace Strategy
We will work with a cross-functional team to develop, deploy, and optimize your remote, hybrid, and in-office workplace strategy.
Assess Readiness
We will evaluate leadership, stakeholder, and operational readiness for remote/hybrid or other workplace strategy changes using surveys, focus groups, interviews, etc.
Business Case
We will help you develop an employer, employee, and environmental business case for workplace change.
Ensure Alignment
We will help you build consensus and ensure that leaders are aligned on a shared vision for the future.
Pilots and Program Roll-Outs
We will work with HR, IT, Real Estate, Facilities, and other functional areas to develop, pilot, and roll out your new workplace program
Place Planning
We will collaborate with you and your architectural and design firm to refine your vision and expectations for the future state based on an understanding of work roles, utilization data, organizational culture, and worker needs and wants.
Space Optimization / Right-Sizing
Evaluate opportunities for space optimization through activity-based working, unassigned seating, hoteling, co-working, design improvements, etc.
Change Management
We will help you develop and deploy change management to smooth the transition to new ways of working (i.e. training, coaching, communications, town halls, train the trainer, etc.)
Policies, Practices, Processes
We will help you evaluate your existing workplace policies, practices, and processes and recommend changes to optimize new ways of working (i.e. team norms, asynchronous communications, equity and inclusion, tech provisioning, tax/regulatory compliance).
Employee Experience
We will help identify and improve any workplace, work practice, or work processes that are limiting your success in delivering an irresistible employee experience.
Best Practices
We will share workplace and workforce best practices for your industry, geography, and employee demographics.
Technology Assessment
We will help evaluate workplace technology needs and provide introductions to trusted providers (i.e. occupancy sensors, utilization studies, facilities management systems, meeting and desk reservation systems, etc.) where appropriate.
Goals and Success Metrics
We will help you establish goals and objectives for your workplace change initiative and recommend appropriate metrics for success.
Stakeholder Presentations
We will develop and deliver Board and stakeholder presentations that inform, catalyze, and/or convince.

These are some of the proprietary tools we use to help guide our clients through their workplace changes

Hybrid work cross functional optimization audit

Cross-Functional Hybrid/Remote Work Optimization Audit

Informative Pre/Post-Change Surveys

Custom Business Case / ROI analyses

Unique Smart Goals and Metrics for Success

Location Strategy Tool

Capital Planning Prioritization Tool

We have worked with some of the nation’s largest employers to deliver workplace strategies that are sustainable for people, planet, and profit.

Click through the slide deck below for all the details about how we can help you make remote, hybrid, and on-site work, work better.

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Why Global Workplace Analytics?

We are widely regarded as one of the nation’s top authorities on hybrid work, mobile work, telecommuting, and remote work.
We know what works and what doesn’t.
We have the respect of and access to an extensive network of global experts who have led transitions with some of the largest public and private sector employers in the world.
Our reputation and experience will afford your program the credibility it will need to secure funding and deliver results.

And, we have:

Testified before Congress on the post-pandemic future of telework in the federal government
Co-authored an e-learning course called The Case for Change which has been used to transition over a hundred thousand public and private sector employees to remote and flexible work.
Written or contributed to two books on the topic, the most recent of which, “Telework in the 21st Century” (Edward Elgin, 2019), profiles telework practices around the globe (Kate was selected to write the U.S. chapter).
Published a wide range of white papers on the topic including two specific to telework in the federal government.
Participated, as an invited expert, in a federal government round-table on the ROI of telework.
Delivered speeches and conducted workshops about remote work for dozens of private-sector employers, government agencies, industry associations, and advocacy groups.

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