Work is changing faster than your plans for it.
The workplace you are planning is built on how work looked before you started. Work has moved since. AI keeps moving it.
Find out before you commit →The lease. The footprint. The fitout. The hybrid policy. You are deciding all of it on how work behaved when the planning started. Not on how it works now.
Each of these commits millions, and years you cannot easily unwind. Get the picture of work wrong, and you live with it every day the space stands.
And work is not standing still. AI is changing how teams get things done, where they need to be, how they spend the day, and what they still come into an office for.
Here is the one thing I would check before any of it locks in.
Not whether the decision is right. Whether it is still built on how work actually behaves today.
Getting workplace data right has just become the second highest priority in corporate real estate, ahead of cost. And the new AI planning tools only pay off for the companies that fixed that data first.
So some of what you are planning around today will not be true by the time it lands.
An expensive decision, anchored to a picture of work that AI is redrawing faster than you can sign it.
Before the mandate, the move, the spend, take a proper look at how work is actually changing. Test the beliefs driving the decision. Check them while you can still change course.
A diagnostic only counts if whoever runs it has nothing to gain from the answer.
When the people measuring a decision also stand to gain from it, the answer bends. Not from bad faith. From interest.
Independent evidence is the only kind everyone in the room can trust.
Four weeks to test it. Years to live with it.
The gap between how work behaves and what your plan assumes widens every quarter you wait. It closes the day you sign.
So one question before you commit. Are you deciding on how work is now? Or on how it looked when you started planning?
Test your workplace decision.
Start with a Workplace MRI. In four weeks you will know whether your plan holds, while you can still change it. So the money backs the right decision, not the wrong one.
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