iO Partners launches workplace strategy platform

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iO Partners has launched iO4Workplace, a tool that calculates precise office space requirements in just five steps and under a minute.

After human resources costs, real estate remains one of the largest impacts on a company's balance sheet, yet research shows that 40% of office space goes unused on any given workday, with global office utilisation averaging just 54%. Businesses are paying for space they don't use or don't support value creation based on assumptions that no longer reflect how work has changed.

Built on three decades of office development experience and hundreds of data points, the tool condenses what has traditionally required weeks of analysis into a five-question process completed in under a minute.

"We provide real value for our clients right at the first meeting," says Balázs Agócs, Head of Workplace Services CEE & SEE at iO Partners. "We built iO4Workplace to simplify complexity and support deep understanding of how workplaces can support business success."

iO4Workplace launches as a product of iO Tech, iO Partners' growing digital consultancy platform.

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