Helping leaders create high-performing workplaces that support workers, unleash innovation, and drive business outcomes.
The WPIx measures space effectiveness and provides insights to improve space performance.
Hybrid workstyles, new technologies, and shifting worker expectations continue to transform the workplace. WPIx survey insights help leaders measure office space performance so they can confidently plan for the future.
Understand how your people work at every scale.
Workplace Assessment
We create customizable surveys to capture the different ways people work.
Pre-Post Occupancy Studies
These studies provide a proof statement for workplace changes and confidence to more broadly apply insights.
Portfolio Analysis
We analyze workplace portfolios to identify the different ways office space is used across multiple locations.
The WPIx can be issued as a stand-alone survey or as part of a mixed methods strategic engagement.
Engage
Clarify project goals and understand existing conditions.
Discover
Explore through stakeholder outreach and research activities.
Analyze
Synthesize and define opportunities.
Recommend
Identify planning and real estate strategies.
Using optional survey modules, discover how effective your workplace is at supporting various needs.
Workplace Experience
Providing a beautiful and welcoming environment.
Innovation
Inspiring and energizes talent to fuel innovation.
Wellbeing
Providing spaces that promote employee physical and mental health.
Engagement
Motivating your employees to give their best effort.
Commitment
Encouraging pride in being part of the organization.
Team Process
Promoting trust and supportive team relationships.
The WPIx has been delivering workplace insights and solutions since 2008.
WORKPLACE RESEARCH LEADERSHIP
Janet Pogue McLaurin
Global Director Workplace Research, Principal
Janet Pogue McLaurin is a global leader of Gensler’s Work Sector practices and research initiatives. As the firm’s Global Director Workplace Research, which is one of the six...
Tim Pittman
Director of Research, Principal
As Director of the Gensler Research Institute, Tim provides strategic leadership and insight across the Institute’s 50+ research projects funded each year. His signature research...
WORKPLACE RESEARCH & INSIGHTS
Blog
10 Workplace Trends for 2024: What’s In and What’s Out?
To evolve with changing demands and earn people’s commutes, the workplace will undergo key shifts. Here are 10 emerging workplace trends to watch in 2024.
Research
Work, Life, and the Workplace: A 2023 Survey of Office Workers in Six U.S. Cities
We surveyed remote and office-based workers across six major U.S. cities to understand the unique factors that influence why employees adopt different work behaviors.
Research
Global Workplace Survey Comparison 2023
We surveyed office workers around the globe to understand how the workplace should evolve to meet their needs.
Blog
How to Reposition Office Space for Market Differentiation
We must shift our thinking to focus less on workplace density and more on the experience and quality of space the office can deliver.
Blog
As New Work Patterns Emerge, the Workplace Must Respond
Gensler’s exploratory survey of office workers in six U.S. cities aims to better understand how emerging factors impact how and why employees use the office.
Blog
High-Performing Workplaces Spark Employees’ Intrinsic Motivation
By tapping into employees’ intrinsic motivation in the workplace, employers can drive business results.
Blog
Hybrid Is Here to Stay. So Is the Office.
Gensler’s global workplace research reveals an optimistic future: while hybrid work is here to stay, the office is needed more than ever.
Blog
10 Considerations for Transitioning Back to Work in a Hybrid World
Here are 10 considerations, tools, and methodologies for creating a better workplace experience and attracting people back to the office in a hybrid world.
Blog
3 Ways the Most Innovative Companies Work Differently
As office workers are returning to the office, we wanted to know: do Innovators work differently, and do they value the office differently?
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Research
UK Workplace Survey 2023
We surveyed UK workers to understand how employees prioritise and experience workspace as work continues to evolve.
Research
Middle East Workplace Survey 2023
Our survey of office workers across Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, and Kuwait reveals opportunities to make critical workplace changes to adapt to new workplace expectations.
Research
Germany Workplace Survey 2023
We surveyed office workers in Germany to understand how they are using the office now and their ideal workplace of the future. We found that office workers value the office for social interaction and connection with their team.
Research
Mexico Workplace Survey 2022
We surveyed office workers in Mexico to understand how they are using the office now and their ideal workplace of the future. As they return, employees want scheduled, purposeful interactions.
Research
Canada Workplace Survey 2022
We surveyed Canadian office workers to understand their preferred mix of experiences in the office to get work done.
Blog
How Wisp, Gensler’s Space Management System, Helps Workplaces Stay Agile in the New Hybrid Ecosystem
As organizations continue to define the evolving modern workplace, space management system users are reinvigorating the demands of the hybrid office on their everyday duties.
Blog
A Future Vision of Workplace Metrics
New sources of data and workplace analytic tools will help us assess a “people-centric” workplace, using organizational outcomes as workplace performance KPIs.