المدخل الفعلي
- Claim or decision question
- For a 120-person UK office, does replacing assigned desks with a 0.7 desk-per-person shared model improve space efficiency without materially reducing employees' ability to find a suitable workspace during peak days? 'Suitable' requires a desk in the needed quiet/collaboration zone. Use for pilot design, not a permanent decision.
- Source material
- S1 occupancy count, our office, six Tue–Thu weeks: peak simultaneous attendance 72–98; zones not recorded. S2 employee survey, 86/120 responses: 58 expect shared desks to be acceptable, 19 unsure, 9 oppose; hypothetical question. S3 facilities simulation: at 0.7 ratio (84 desks), average modeled utilization rises 51%→69%; assumes attendance independent by person and no zone constraint. S4 pilot at another 300-person firm: 0.65 ratio; 12 of 20 observed peak days had no free quiet-zone desks; total desks were still available; different hybrid policy. S5 vendor blog cites S4 and says sharing 'eliminates wasted space.'
- Evidence rules
- Direct internal observations high for our attendance but incomplete without zones. Simulations are conditional on assumptions. Surveys measure expectations, not actual workspace access. External firm evidence is indirect but relevant to zone risk. Vendor blog is not independent of S4. Preserve counts and do not define 'materially' without a threshold.







