OfficeSpace Releases 2026 Future of Work Trends Report
OfficeSpace Software's 2026 Built World Market Report reveals that many workplaces operate at less than half their daily capacity despite ongoing real estate investments, highlighting challenges in space utilization, employee experience, and long-term workplace strategy amid hybrid and return-to-office trends, while emphasizing the need for integrated, data-driven solutions combining space, experience, and business outcomes to navigate evolving work environments.
February 10, 2026
OfficeSpace Software has released its inaugural Built World Market Report, providing insights into the evolving landscape of workplace strategy, space utilization, and employee experience as organizations adapt to hybrid and return-to-office models. The report addresses the challenges workplace leaders face in making long-term decisions about physical space amid economic pressures and shifting employee expectations.
A key finding from the report is that many workplaces are operating at well under half of their potential daily utilization, despite continued investments in real estate and workplace initiatives. This underutilization has significant implications for cost efficiency, employee experience, sustainability, and long-term planning.
“The future of work isn’t just about where people work—it’s about how space, experience, and strategy come together,” said Erin Mulligan Helgren, CEO of OfficeSpace Software.
“What we’re sharing in this report is an early signal of much larger shifts taking place across the built world. For our customers, we’re able to go deeper—turning these patterns into benchmarking, foresight, and action.”
The report draws on OfficeSpace’s perspective across workplace strategy, technology, employee experience, and space operations. These insights help organizations identify friction points, understand how physical environments are changing, and align space, experience, and business outcomes more effectively.
The findings in the report represent only a small sample of broader trends. More detailed insights are used within the OfficeSpace platform to guide real-world decisions and adapt workplace strategies. The platform also supports human-in-the-loop, agentic AI workflows for adaptive, data-driven decision-making in workplace strategy, space planning, and design.
“In a world where the workplace is constantly changing, leaders need more than dashboards—they need context and confidence,” Helgren added.
The Built World Market Report follows OfficeSpace’s recent announcement of Built World Operating Software as a new category that unifies workplace management, experience, and intelligence into a single AI-native operating layer. Together, the category announcement and the market report reinforce OfficeSpace’s role in helping the industry understand and lead through the transformation of the built world.
About OfficeSpace Software
OfficeSpace Software provides an AI operating system for the built world, helping teams with space planning, desk and room booking, employee wayfinding and announcements, visitor management, enterprise asset management, real-time reporting and analytics, AI workflows, and predictive intelligence.
OfficeSpace has received recognition such as Easiest to Use, Best Meets Requirements, Users Most Likely to Recommend, Best Enterprise ROI, Overall Leader, and Top 1% Office Software on G2’s enterprise software review site. The company is also featured in Gartner’s 2025 Market Guide for Workplace Experience Applications and on the AppsCRE corporate real estate marketplace. OfficeSpace is backed by Vista Equity Partners and Resurgens Technology Partners.