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Last updated on : October 22, 2024

Leveraging technology and data to balance the needs of people, space and portfolio

Occupancy Planning and Management has been formally recognized as one of JLL’s core service offerings since 2002 and is a differentiator for JLL. Over the last decade, our Occupancy Planning and Management platform has experienced exponential year-over-year growth.​

The service effectively combines people, process, and technology to strategically align current and future-state space and occupancy data with each client’s unique, strategic goals, and long-term business objectives. As a result, we can help clients reduce occupancy costs, optimize their corporate real estate portfolio, respond to the ever-changing needs of a dynamic workforce, attract and retain the best talent, and maximize human potential.

What are our capabilities?

Space Data and Insights

  • Focuses on collecting, processing and analysing data to quickly provide organizations with an understanding of their office space composition, how it is used and what needs, or opportunities exist

Space and Occupancy Planning

  • Serve as client’s single point of contact for daily operational occupancy requests
  • Determine appropriate solution for client request
  • Gather and confirm scope details and highlight to client when requests fall outside agreed scope parameters and work to provide solution

Workplace Utilization

  • Utilization tracking provides governance and requirements information for data collection sources. Requirements may include:
    • Collection of badge data to provide floor and building level occupancy reporting.
    • Collection of Wi-Fi data to provide zone, floor and building level occupancy reporting.
    • Collection of network login data to provide building level occupancy reporting.
  • Utilization reporting provides trend analysis to support occupancy planning

Occupancy Scenario Planning

  • Gather information into current and future headcount state, space needs, specific site needs, business needs and objectives, and adjacency requirements
  • Run scenarios to deliver highly level block and stack planning, and partner with execution teams to obtain budgetary pricing

Space Reservation Management

  • Collect and manage space reservation data
  • Establish and maintain rules to govern the space reservation process
  • Provide periodic reporting relating to short-term workspace reservations
  • Manage smart space reservations as they are generated by the AI tool

Churn Management

  • Simply put, churn at its most basic level can be viewed as the process of moving employees and assets. Churn is necessary within any healthy, evolving organization and can be driven by a variety of both internal and external factors, including: Upsizing, down-sizing and right-sizing business operations, mergers and acquisitions, facility renovations and remodeling projects and the need for greater cross-functional team collaboration.
  • Our solution incorporates people, process, technology, data, insights, and best practices to create a metrics-based approach to meet the evolving needs of the client

What makes us special?

Data tracking and maintenance

  • Our industry leading Integrated Workplace Management System (IWMS), which can also be integrated with the client’s existing IWMS, enables us to seamlessly track, maintain and support moves/adds/changes across the client’s workplace

Data accuracy and governance

  • Our programme is built around our proprietary Lighthouse technology which inspects millions of data points everyday to ensure accuracy

Single system of record

  • Our top-tier capability uses BIM 360 to automate document management, allow us to manage critical changes to the client’s as built drawing library

Artificial intelligence enabled

  • The integration of AI provides JLL with the most advanced space capability in the industry

Why can we be trusted?

  • First to introduce innovative methods and processes designed for the hybrid workplace
  • Our globally integrated technology platform provides access to unparalleled real-time data
  • Our global team of more than 750 planning and consulting professionals is the largest in the industry (2023)
  • We deliver enterprise-level solutions to more than 140 client accounts around the world on an annual basis (2023)
  • Our regional team of 200 Occupancy Planning Specialists serves 41 clients across Asia Pacific, managing 157 million square feet of space (2023)

How are we powered by technology?

GoSpace AI
AI-powered software to drive dynamic resource and space allocations through intelligent, automatic seating assignment methods

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Space Reservation Tool
Technology that manages desk and collaboration space bookings, empowering employees to choose where they want to work; also enables space inventory by allowing CRE leaders to turn on/off access to specific areas

SPACE
Our global, web-based occupancy planning and move management application. It is designed to monitor utilization and track and report occupancy data in real-time. SPACE is fully scalable and provides a holistic view of your portfolio data allowing you to shape the perfect occupancy plan for a single site or your entire portfolio. SPACE consists of four modules Space Management, Move Management, Asset Management and Strategic planning and puts more than 50 unique reports at your fingertips

OP Analytics Dashboards
The consume the invaluable information contained in your space data management system and translate it into easy to understand, dynamic visualizations. These powerful, smart analytics can then be used to drive unparalleled business insights, identify operational efficiencies and consistently ensure that our clients will have the right information at the right time, so they can make smarter and better-informed decisions

Lighthouse
Lighthouse is a turnkey solution that provides direct visibility into the quality of your portfolio data using a streamlined approach that evaluates data sets for accuracy, consistency, integrity and uniqueness, and then applies strict data governance guidelines. It performs millions of data quality checks every day and communicates the results using scorecards that are sent directly to members of the account and key client stakeholders

Utilization IQ
Utilization IQ is a flexible technology-agnostic SaaS platform that generates meaningful utilization intelligence and ultimately results in the optimization of real estate occupancy and an overall improvement in employee experience

How can you engage a client?

  • With your approach to hybrid working for the foreseeable future, have you contemplated optimising your portfolio to reduce cost?
  • How would meeting (maybe exceeding) savings targets through a portfolio optimisation programme elevate the role of real estate at your organisation?
  • Many companies are making public statements about where their employees can work moving forward. What insight do you have on your company’s remote work outlook and policies?

Where can you learn more?

Sites

Corporate Website
Global SharePoint

Training

Space Optimisation Sales-Solution E-Learning
Occupancy Management Sales-Solution E-Learning
Dynamic Occupancy Management Sales-Solution E-Learning

Videos

JLL Dynamic Occupancy Management

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