Before you lock in years of rent, know the workplace requirement is right.
CultureFit360™ tests the proposed footprint, attendance and room mix against how your people actually work, so you know what holds up and what needs changing before money moves.
Independent by design. No stake in the lease, design, fitout or furniture.
01 · WHY IT MATTERS
Most property decisions start with a number. Fewer can show how it was reached.
The number may come from your current lease, a headcount forecast, an attendance policy, an area model, a recent survey or a leadership view. Each can be useful.
The risk is allowing a number nobody can fully explain to drive the property search, lease negotiation and fitout.
When that happens, the cost shows up later. The team that needed focus space spends its days in collaborative pods. The CFO who signed off has now signed off twice. The fitout is adjusted at significant cost because the requirement rested on assumptions nobody had time to test.
CultureFit360™ tests the workplace requirement against reported attendance, work patterns, meeting behaviour, team interaction, commute and workplace friction.
A requirement you can explain
Know whether the proposed amount of space holds up, needs adjustment, or depends on decisions your organisation has not yet made.
A sharper property process
Give your tenant adviser clearer requirements for peak attendance, focus work, meetings, hybrid calls, team interaction and client activity.
A decision leadership can defend
Bring Property, Finance, HR and leadership around one set of findings they can challenge and use.
Get the requirement right. Then search, negotiate and design.
02 · WHAT IT TESTS
Know what the workplace needs before the property process narrows your options.
Is the proposed amount of space credible?
See whether workforce demand supports the number, points to an adjustment, or depends on assumptions that remain unresolved.
What must the workplace support?
Understand the actual balance of focus work, small meetings, collaboration, hybrid calls, team interaction, social connection and client activity.
What should the property process account for?
Clarify attendance, access, commute, flexibility and team needs before you narrow options or fix lease terms.
What room mix will the organisation need?
Use reported meeting size, frequency and duration to test whether the proposed mix of rooms and settings reflects how collaboration actually happens.
What could undermine the decision later?
Identify where crowding, excess space, poor adoption, acoustic pressure, technology friction or changing work patterns could force correction after commitment.
Is the organisation ready for the direction being proposed?
Test whether leadership and workforce assumptions are aligned strongly enough for the decision to proceed, or whether the scope, timing or conditions need to change first.
Read more: What is workplace strategy? →
03 · PROOF · PROOF IN PRACTICE
In one workplace refresh, the direction going in was familiar: Modernise the environment and create more collaboration. The evidence showed something more specific.
56%
of work time was individual.
70%
of meetings involved two to four people and lasted under 30 minutes.
55%
of negative workplace sentiment related to acoustics.
The room mix shifted towards smaller, faster-turnover spaces. Focus and acoustics moved into core scope before design progressed.
Same project. Better evidence. Sharper decision.
One applied CultureFit360™ engagement, not a market benchmark.
04 · WHAT YOU GET
Five decision-ready outputs. One requirement your team can carry forward.
01 · Decision Memo
A concise record of the decision, assumptions, evidence and implications for footprint, attendance, room mix and the property process.
02 · CultureFit Index
A quantified view of where culture, workplace and systems support performance, and where the proposed direction may amplify friction.
03 · Assumptions Under Test
The four to six beliefs carrying the decision, assessed as supported, partially supported, contradicted or insufficiently tested.
04 · Stakeholder Cards
Clear implications for leadership, Finance, HR, Property and the design or project team.
05 · Decision Watchlist
The unresolved assumptions and leading indicators that should be checked before the next major commitment point.
PROCEED
The evidence broadly supports the direction.
NARROW
The direction holds, but part of the scope or requirement needs adjustment.
STAGE
The commitment should be phased while further evidence is gathered.
STOP
Core assumptions do not hold strongly enough to justify proceeding.
The diagnostic does not choose a building or negotiate a lease. It shows whether the requirement is strong enough to carry into the property process, and what must be resolved first.
05 · WHO DOES WHAT
Strengthen the team you already have.
Your tenant adviser
Leads the property strategy, market process and negotiation. Challenges the requirement and protects the commercial outcome.
Work/Shift
Tests the workforce evidence behind the requirement and translates the findings into property and workplace implications.
Your design and project team
Turns the agreed requirement into the physical response, cost plan and delivery approach.
Work/Shift earns nothing from the lease, design, fitout, furniture or technology. That keeps all four findings open: Proceed, Narrow, Stage or Stop.
Already have utilisation, survey, attendance, booking, lease or workplace data? Good. It becomes part of the evidence. The question is whether it is enough to support the decision, what it does not yet prove, and what remains unresolved.
06 · THE WINDOW
Test the requirement while there is still room to change it.
The most useful time for a pre-lease workplace diagnostic is before the property search, lease terms or design scope begin narrowing your options. For many organisations, that means three to eighteen months before a lease renewal, relocation or major fitout commitment.
When the process is already moving, CultureFit360™ can still test the requirement, expose unsupported assumptions and show what should be narrowed or staged before more money is committed.
The later the evidence arrives, the more the conversation shifts from choosing the right requirement to correcting one already in motion.
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07 · WHO IT IS FOR · DECISION OWNERS
Corporate Real Estate and Workplace
Responsible for the footprint, workplace requirement and property process.
Finance and executive approvers
Accountable for the multi-year commitment and investment logic.
COOs and business leaders
Responsible for whether the workplace supports how the organisation needs to operate.
HR and People leaders
Responsible for the cultural, behavioural and change consequences of the decision.
One decision. One evidence base. Different stakeholder consequences.
08 · HOW IT RUNS · ENGAGEMENT AT A GLANCE
1. Name the decision
Confirm the lease, relocation, refurbishment or fitout decision in view, the timing, stakeholders and assumptions that need testing.
2. Hear from the workforce
Invite anonymous CultureFit360™ input. The mobile-friendly questionnaire takes 12 to 15 minutes. Existing utilisation, booking, attendance, survey, lease or workplace data can be incorporated.
3. Test the requirement
Analyse work patterns, attendance, meeting behaviour, culture, commute, environmental friction, digital experience and implications for the proposed direction—not a generic workplace report.
4. Carry the answer forward
Receive the Decision Memo, supporting outputs and leadership readout. Carry the evidence into the market process, board paper, business case, workplace brief or design response.
SCOPE · A defined property or workplace decision, affected workforce and available evidence confirmed at commencement.
TIMING · Typically four to six weeks, depending on kickoff, fieldwork and stakeholder availability.
ENGAGEMENT · Fixed scope agreed around the decision, workforce, locations and analysis required.
09 · FAQ
What is a pre-lease workplace diagnostic?
It is an independent test of the workforce assumptions behind a lease renewal, relocation, refurbishment or fitout. It shows whether the proposed requirement matches how people actually work before that requirement drives the property process.
Does it replace our tenant adviser?
No. Your tenant adviser leads the property strategy, market process and negotiation. Work/Shift tests the workforce evidence behind the requirement they are taking to market. The roles are complementary.
Does it replace workplace strategy or design?
No. The diagnostic gives workplace strategists, designers and project teams a clearer and more defensible starting point. It does not produce a design concept, negotiate a lease or deliver the fitout.
Will Work/Shift tell us whether to renew or relocate?
Work/Shift assesses whether the evidence behind the current direction is strong enough to Proceed, Narrow, Stage or Stop. Leadership and the tenant adviser remain responsible for the final property choice.
When should we commission it?
Ideally before the market process, workplace requirement or preferred property direction becomes difficult to change. Three to eighteen months before a major lease or fitout commitment is usually useful. When the process is already moving, it may still help narrow the requirement, stage the commitment or identify what should not yet be fixed.
Can CultureFit360™ use data we already have?
Yes. Existing utilisation, booking, attendance, survey, lease and workplace data can be incorporated. CultureFit360™ adds structured workforce evidence and the interpretation needed to test what those inputs do and do not prove.
How is this different from an employee engagement survey?
An engagement survey measures broad sentiment. CultureFit360™ tests how culture, workplace, systems and work patterns affect the specific property or workplace decision in front of you. The survey is the instrument. The diagnostic and decision read are the product.
Is the diagnostic anonymous?
Yes. CultureFit360™ is anonymous by design. Findings are reported only at privacy-safe group sizes. Individual responses are not identified.
What if the evidence confirms our current direction?
That is still valuable. You move forward with a requirement leadership can explain, Finance can challenge and the property and design teams can use. The purpose is not to overturn the direction. It is to establish whether confidence in it is earned.
How long does it take?
A standard single-location engagement typically takes four to six weeks, depending on kickoff, fieldwork and stakeholder availability. Broader or more complex decisions are scoped according to the decision, workforce, locations and analysis required.
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