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    Europe’s fastest growing independent workplace effectiveness resource

    INSIDE

    Alan WilliamsOn how hotel General Managementcould teach Facilities Managers a fewcustomer service design tricks. Page 2

    Debra Ward Philip VanhoutteHome-shoring. Looking at what big businessis doing now in the next chapter in theremote working experiment. Page 12

    In 2010 we launched the

    Leesman Index. The

    proposition was bold but

    simple – to change the way

    workplace is measured

    - setting out to establish

    a common methodology

    for measuring workplace

    effectiveness – how well

    the workplace supports the

    efforts of those it houses.

    Almost two years to

    the day later, we passed the

    first major milestone with

    the receipt of our 10,000th

    employee e-questionnai re

    response. This establishes

    our database as the largest

    contemporary collection

    of workplace effectiveness

    information available,giving deep insight into

    which workplace strategies

    are delivering meaningful

    business benefit.

    Fifteen years before us,

    Easyjet launched with a

    bolder concept – to change

    budget travel. A key feature

    in paying less for your seat

    was that you shouldn’t expect

    to choose it. Passengers took

    time to get used to non-

    allocated seating but jostling

    for preferred position was

    soon accepted as part of the

    experience you endured for

    the benefit of lower fares.

    Easyjet showed non-

    allocated seating reduced

    boarding times, benefitting

    on-stand turnround. Less

    time on the t armac meant

    lower fees to airport operators

    plus more flying-time per

    aircraft, a strategy that would

    deliver meaningful change.

    Easyjet now serves over

    500 routes and 50 million

    passengers a year.

    The non-budget airlines

    gave a smart riposte; not by

    mimicking the new strategy,

    but by introducing the option

    to choose your preferred seatwhen checking-in online,

    becoming de facto now with

    most scheduled operators.

    But in March this year

    Easyjet announced that it too

    would now allow passengers

    to choose seats at check-in.

    In Easyjet style though, this

    would come at a cost. £12 for

    premium front or exit rows;

    £3 for any other chosen seat.

    In the same month, the

    airline projected a pre-tax

    loss for the six months to

    31 March of £110-120m - an

    “improvement” on previous

    forecasts. But Easyjet CEO

    Carolyn McCall said the plan

    to move to allocated seating

    was revenue-neutral.

    In a study by Skyscanner,

    less than 1% of respondents

    said they preferred the middle

    seat. So why, I wonder, on the

    occasions since introducing

    allocated seating on my

    Easyjet flight to Amsterdam,

    am I always allocated a

    middle seat when choosing

    not to pay the privilege

    to choose? Is it because

    statistically I am more likely

    then to pay £3 each way to

    ensure I don’t get the seat Idon’t like. Or perhaps that

    the 60% who prefer window

    and 39% who prefer aisles are

    more likely to have their paid

    preference fulfilled resulting

    in the charging strategy

    bearing fruit?

    But the science of choice

    is worth understanding.

    Psychologists track how

    choice engenders freedom,

    empowerment and

    engagement. American

    market researcher and

    Psychophysicist Howard

    Moskowitz consults with

    FMCG food technologists,

    harnessing consumer

    insights to help drive

    better product offerings.

    He has proven that the

    better engineered the product

    choices, the greater chance

    customer will find the

    product variant that matches

    their personal palate.

    From colas to spaghetti

    sauce, Moskowitz has proven

    how choice fuels greater

    consumer satisfaction

    giving happier, more

    loyal consumers. The skill

    then is calculating how many

    product variants are requiredand the likely sales volume

    of each.

    How does this all relate

    to workplace? The data

    from our first 10,000+

    workplace occupiers shows

    that those employees more

    satisfied with the variety

    of work settings on offer,

    also have an increased sense

    of productivity. Allowing

    employees to choose their

    seat each time they “board”

    and more of them could be

    satisfied that the activities

    they are employed to do

    are well supported by their

    space. Greater location

    autonomy could deliver

    clear business benefit.

    This suggest Activity

    Based Working is the

    “business class” option of

    workplace. It promotes the

    development of workplace

    landscapes where employees

    choose locations based on the

    activity they are undertaking

    at any given different point in

    their working day – they are

    free to unbuckle and change

    “seat” in-flight.

    So whether checking-

    in in advance, or jostlingfor their preferred seat on

    the day, transferring the

    responsibility of location

    choice to employees could

    be a powerful component

    in fuelling workplace

    productivity. I wonder if

    Easyjet staff at their Luton

    HQ are allocated desks

    or jostle for positions

    each morning?

    As Easyjet experiments with the introduction of allocated seating for it’s 50m passengers,what lessons can workplace management learn on the power & benet of location choice?

    This issue: Why service matters, Olympic London and passing the rst major data milestone.

    The design of my workplace

    enables me to work productively

    Agree 55.1% Neutral 16.7% Disagree 28.2% 

    My organisation’s oce is

    a place I am proud to bring

    visitors to

    Agree 49.1% Neutral 19.5% Disagree 31.4% 

    The design of my workplace

    is important to me

    Agree 88.1% Neutral 9.5% Disagree 2.4% 

    2012 Q2 Brieng

    Lmi 58.7+ 2.4 | hi84.6 | lo48.7

    11,198 respondents

    43 surveys

    140 properties

     63% av response rate

    11 min av response time

    The Lmi is Europe’s central

    workplace effectiveness

    benchmark, reporting on a

    scale of 0-100 on the ability

    of a workplace to support

    important workplace activities.

    Data reported at 30.06.12

    No of properties by Lmi band

    Lmi 0-16 = 0

    Lmi 17-33 = 0

    Lmi 34-50 = 9

    Lmi 50-66 = 51

    Lmi 67-83 = 14

    Lmi 84-100 = 3

    Issue 6leesmanindex.com

    10,000 respondents suggest locationchoice is key to higher eectiveness

    Mitie’s Clients Services Director on howthe smallest details do matter and how FM’scan keep sta coming back for more. Page 3

    [email protected]

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    FM has long grappled with

    it’s own brand identity – it’s

    definition of what it does. I’ve

    often heard it packaged as the

    provision of a range of services

    such as reception, catering,

    security, meeting rooms,

    housekeeping and engineering

    within a built environment.

    It’s the same list a hotel General

    Manager would propose for

    a hotel - a built environment

    with an almost identical rangeof services.

    In both situations, these

    services are provided to

    customers - guests in a hotel;

    employees and visitors in a

    corporate workplace. So if the

    two service scenarios are so

    similar, why is there such a

    gap between the level of service

    you would expect in a hotel and

    that you are likely to receive

    in so many workplaces?

    You might argue that

    these two environments

    accommodate such entirely

    different activities that the

    parallel is inappropriate.

    But I would suggest that as

    more employees becomemore mobile, the service and

    hospitality experience they

    will expect when visiting the

    office (as opposed to being

    based there), will become

    increasingly higher in its

    expectation. In this way,

    the workplace is becoming

    a SERVICEBRAND just

    as a hotel or any other face

    to face retail operation is.

    To me the difference

    between the management

    of a hotel and a corporate

    workplace seems to be about

    sense of central purpose - a

    focus on customer service and

    operating as one team. The

    crux perhaps is in the way the

    leadership and structure of the

    service delivery organisation

    is approached. FM’s consider

    themselves as custodians

    of the built asset, whereas

    hotel managers are owners

    of the guest experience.

    A hotel is operated

    through a coordinated

    communication framework,

    ranging from a daily

    operational review, a periodic

    events planning meeting, a

    monthly operational meeting,performance reporting by

    department etc. In FM,

    communication is too often

    managed and reinforced at a

    departmental level with little

    effort to align practices, make

    use of common formats (eg

    for reporting) or coordinate

    activity across service lines.

    In a hotel, the all-important

    leadership is generally provided

    by a person who has strong

    customer service or operational

    experience, perhaps gained

    in food and beverage, the

    rooms division or sales and

    marketing. A common thread

    is an understanding of the

    importance of customerservice and the ability to lead

    and motivate teams of people

    around this singular goal.

    These leaders tend to manage

    by walking about, interacting

    with guests and employees to

    find out what is happening and

    what is working, as opposed

    to relying on management

    reports and meetings. These

    leaders are supported with

    specialist expertise in areas

    such as finance, human

    resources and property.

    The identity of the hotel

    as a whole is the key driver,

    and the constituent parts

    recognise the importance of

    their role as part of the whole.

    My experience of FM is

    that there is still much more

    emphasis on management

    in functional silos and less

    focus on a single point of

    coordination and alignment.

    So the challenge in FM is

    whether to continue doing

    things from a traditional

    building functionality

    and contract management

    perspective, or to learn from

    relevant sectors like the hotel

    industry where the focus ismore on team leadership

    and customer experience.

    Few could deny that Apple

    has completely reshaped the

    personal computer market by

    taking th is customer centric

    approach way beyond where

    others thought possible. They

    not only seek to deliver on the

    brand and services you need,

    but are consistently offering

    up brands and services that

    you didn’t realise you needed

    but on which you quickly

    become reliant.

    “When I called the PC

    manufacturer they told me

    it must be an issue with the

    operating software but whenI called them they said it must

    be a hardware issue”. With

    Apple there is one port of call

    because they have a joined up

    service delivered along with a

    great attitude and some very

    clever processes.

    As for the relevance

    to FM, just think of the

    built environment as the

    “hardware” and everything

    to do with people (service

    providers and customers)

    as the “software”. How much

    more closely could the two

    be integrated? I f you’ve never

    before been, try visiting

    an Apple store and you’ll

    experience it for yourself

    the minute you cross

    the threshold.

    So perhaps the next

    step for FM is to place

    the customer experience,

    rather than buildings and

    contracts, at the centre of

    the approach. Insight from

    all stakeholders (employee,

    customer, community

    and supplier) would be

    needed and a measurement

    framework would assist

    comparative efforts.This could consist

    of specific workplace-

    related questions as part

    of the business’s employee

    engagement/satisfaction

    process, but should also

    involve consolidation of

    valuable information from

    a range of sources such

    as helpdesk calls, focused

    surveys and feedback forums

    to create a rich picture

    of information from

    all stakeholders.

    With such an approach,

    it is possible to develop a

    greater understanding of

    what customers think of

    their experience, comparedto their expectation, and

    how important this is to

    them - linking everything

    back to resource to assist

    in prioritisation and

    resource allocation of

    workplace services.

    Analytics (rather than

    pure opinion) could then

    drive business strategy

    and the business planning

    process – including

    employee productivity.

    A more t ransparent,

    scientific approach would

    also facilitate service delivery

    re-engineering from a

    customer journey perspective

    to realise efficiencies and

    reduce silo structures.

    There is a range of practical

    challenges to overcome for

    FM in this scenario starting

    with people processes. Each

    service provider often has

    its own company inductionfocused on their employer

    organisation rather than the

    client organisation. And of

    course the standard to which

    each induction is delivered

    can vary enormously from

    one provider to the next.

    TFM does provide

    a compelling solution

    to disparate service line

    management, but in theory

    more often than in practical

    reality. However, the

    challenge is no less for

    the client to communicate

    their values and for the

    contractor to comprehend,

    then communicate, then

    drive the client brand,rather than their own.

    Critically, consideration

    also needs to be given to the

    emotional perception as

    this is a major contributor

    (maybe more than 50%) to the

    overall perception of a service

    transaction. Companies like

    Zappos, the online retailer,

    and the Four Seasons hotel

    group recognise that if the

    culture (“software”) in the

    organisation is right, many

    other issues simply do not arise.

    But culture needs constant

    nourishing, attention and

    referencing to flourish and be

    strong. Inclusion of emotional

    factors makes measurementmore of a challenge but,

    if ignored, can make any

    assessment at best flawed and

    potentially meaningless.

    FM has without doubt

    evolved from being a

    department who maintain

    building functionality to an

    integral function in managing

    an organisation’s cost base.

    However, I believe there is an

    opportunity to evolve further

    again so that the value of FM

    as central to core business

    strategy is appreciated

    and the impact on brand

    perception, attracting and

    retaining talent, employee

    engagement and productivityis fully understood.

    Placing the customer

    experience at the centre

    of the way we design and

    deliver workplace services

    (an integrated hardware

    and software approach),

    combining scientific insight

    and understanding emotional

    considerations can elevate the

    role of FM to a more strategic,

    valuable and valued position

    in organisations.

    Alan Williams is Director of Serv icebrand Global Ltd.He supports progressive organisations by aligningstrategy in the areas of customer experience, employeeengagement and brand identity.

    [email protected]

    Can hospitality and retail oer important lessons to FM?The service coach

    DO NOTDISTURB

    “When I called the PC manufacturer

    they told me it must be an issue with the

    operating software but when I called them

    they said it must be a hardware issue”.

    mailto:alan.williams%40servicebrandglobal.com?subject=Leesman%20Review%206mailto:alan.williams%40servicebrandglobal.com?subject=Leesman%20Review%206

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    that their workplace enables

    them to work productively.

    Worse yet, only 45.4% of

    respondents said t hat their

    office is a place they are

    proud to bring visitors to.

    Leesman’s 70 or so lines of

    enquiry give me the chance

    to focus on the finest service

    detail for my clients.

    We have all heard the oldadage th at a happy employee

    is a productive one. So

    creating and maintaining

    space and service at a level

    that is reflective of the

    company’s core employee

    wellbeing objectives is a

    key element of that. It’s

    for FM’s to do that.

    And we need to have

    brave conversations with

    our clients. “Sweating the

    asset” is more than just

    maximising square footage

    and utilisation rates. It’s

    about ensuring that those

    who occupy every square

    foot are maximising

    their potential output.As the cost of workspace

    increases, providing space

    that enables teams and

    individuals to maximise

    their output should be a key

    focus of every leading edge

    organisation – and every

    progressive FM. Not simply

    service cost reduction.

    In order to do that

    effectively, companies

    need to understand what

    is important to individuals

    and teams. The aspects of

    workplace that are perceived

    as important to employees

    are often those items t hat

    are given the least amount

    of attention. For example

    Leesman data shows that

    there is a resounding cry

    for great coffee.

    Coffee and refreshment

    provision may not directly

    be a key element in driving

    productivity, but it is highly

    emotive in fuelling a sense

    of pride and therefore

    engagement. Informal

    / social interaction and

    collaborative workspacecontinue to be areas that

    employees rate as key

    elements, yet very few

    companies are spending

    time, attention and money

    on providing and servicing

    these. These areas need

    more attention to detail.

    A CEO of a well-known

    telecoms company recently

    said, “I don’t really like

    buildings. I am closing as

    many as I can. That doesn’t

    mean I want people to work

    from home, actually I am

    not a big fan of the “work

    from home” drive. I would

    rather provide spaces for

    my teams to come and worktogether to collectively solve

    everyday problems and

    drive the business forward.

    Lately, I feel like I am in the

    coffee shop business”.

    To bring home the

    impact of workplace

    importance, presenteeism

    and productivity, let me

    recount a conversation I had

    recently with a very good

    friend of mine who works

    for Google. She is heavily

    pregnant with twins (with

    a two year old at home)

    and yet she still makes the

    40-minute commute into

    work every day. Everyone

    would understand if she

    just worked part time

    from home.

    But when I asked her

    why she continued to go

    to work, her response was

    unfaltering. “The food

    is fantastic and always

    available and they cater

    to some of my nutritional

    requirements and strange

    requests, there are sleeping

    pods for me to lie downfor 20 minutes in the

    afternoon, my chair is

    repeatedly adjusted to meet

    my changing needs, there

    is a masseuse on site every

    week, I feel productive and

    valued and my team are all

    there… why would I want

    to stay home?”

    The worrying factor of

    course is that if my friend’s

    positive experience is

    indicative of the positive

    impact of workplace on

    employee engagement,

    then the reverse must also

    be true. If people are not

    engaged with and proud

    of where they work, do not

    feel valued because their

    workspace doesn’t enable

    them to maximise their

    output, why would they

    want to come to work?

    I believe that facilitiesmanagement has a hugely

    important role to play

    in demonstrating that a

    fastidious attention to detail

    in the design of workplace

    soft services, delivers real

    business benefit. A first

    class hospitality experience

    keeps the employee coming

    back, it keeps them fuelled,

    it keeps them engaged

    and most important ly,

    can then impact on

    their productivity.

    Defenders of either position

    cite advantages ranging from

    aesthetics and cleanliness

    to paper conservation,

    to the ease of detaching

    individual squares. Rather

    unbelievable, academic

    papers even exist on the

    subject; “Bathroom Politics:

    Introducing Students to

    Sociological Thinking fromthe Bottom Up" by sociology

    professor Edgar Alan Burns.

    Some writers have proposed

    connections to age, sex,

    or political philosophy

    and survey evidence has

    shown a correlation with

    socioeconomic status.

    But let’s face it toilet paper,

    like many aspects of property

    and facilities management, is

    simply a hygiene factor. It sits

    so near the base of the huge

    list of FM consumables, few

    give it more than a moment’s

    attention. No one thanks you

    every time it is there but you

    are certainly made aware

    when it is missing. This iswhere service has a part

    to play.

    Of course toilet paper

    is always present in well-

    serviced environments. And

    in five star establishments,

    the toilet paper always rolls

    from the top and with added

    attention to detail, well

    groomed organisations

    will fold it into a peak.

    From a functionality

    perspective, of course none

    of this matters. But from

    an image and subsequent

    perception perspective,

    personally I think that

    these little touches go a

    long way. Such attentions to

    detail signal to people that

    you are focussing on even

    the smallest detail, giving

    people comfort perhaps

    that the big things are

    being taken care of with

    similar focus.

    Many aspects of property

    and facilities are even more

    emotive than the toilet

    paper debate. As leaders in

    property we are responsiblefor areas that not only have

    an impact on output but

    actually have touch points

    for personal wellbeing

    and even survival.

    From security, to fresh

    air to catering and meeting

    room management, we

    maintain, manage and

    elevate every aspect of an

    employee’s life for 8 – 12

    hours a day. And yet rarely

    are property and facilities

    professionals consulted in

    the design and layout of

    workplace. How often have

    we heard one of our FM

    colleagues say “fashion

    over function” is at workhere… with millions of

    pounds being spent on one

    of our two most expensive

    assets one would think that

    advice and input not only

    from property and facilities

    professionals but from

    the end user would

    be imperative?!

    Leesman’s initiative

    to provide a central,

    unified and standardised

    measure for channelling

    this input gives FM a

    powerful platform. Across

    57 properties and 6,700

    respondents, 89.5% said

    that the design of the

    workplace is important to

    them yet only 54.1% said

    Debra Ward is Managing Director at Mitie Client Services.With a leadership background in hotel management,Debra believes that providing exceptional service doesnot cost more, but rather is more costly if not provided.

    [email protected]

    Go to work or stay at home?Toilet paper… should the end roll from the top or from the bottom? And frankly, does itreally matter? For such a trivial topic, people hold strong opinions on the matter.

    “Creating and maintaining space and service

    at a level that is reective of the company's

    core employee wellbeing objectives is key.

    It is for FM's to do that”.

    mailto:debra.ward%40mitie.com?subject=Leesman%20Review%206mailto:debra.ward%40mitie.com?subject=Leesman%20Review%206

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    Much is now benchmarked. April this year was benchmarked

    as the wettest in the U K for more than 100 years, with

    flood warnings in place across six counties. But the UK

    Environment Agency had to impose a hosepipe ban as water

    stocks in reservoirs became perilously low. So though three

    times the usual rain fell, the story varied when viewed from

    different perspectives.

    Benchmarking is useful in providing a ready comparison.

    But as in UK water stocks, it is the data behind the benchmark

    that tells the t ruer story. With 10,000 respondents now

    having completed exactly the same workplace effectiveness

    questionnai re, Leesman has what is almost certainly the

    largest contemporary database available on the subject.

    This provides an unparalleled opportuni ty to report on

    exactly how well the modern knowledge economy workplace

    is supporting the knowledge workers it accommodates.

    Central to that database is our Leesman Lmi effectiveness

    measure. This Lmi b enchmark is calculated to show the

    ability of a workplace to support the activit ies employees

    individual ly tell us are important in their work. The higher

    the score, the bet ter the space is performing for the occupiers.

    So the most powerful insights sit in understanding what is

    delivering higher performing Lmi spaces. Because where

    there is a higher Lmi, we also consistently see a higher

    sense of personal productivity amongst employees. So

    the benchmark provides an indicator, but the individual

    lines of enquiry beh ind it tell the story of which factors are

    inhibi ting and which are fuelling employee productivity.

    This shou ld not really come as a surprise to seasoned

    workplace professionals – the better a workplace supports

    important activit ies, the more productive the employee will

    feel. Stating the obvious perhaps. But reporting that from

    a consistently applied question set, applied independent ly

    of any of the other professional consultants, contractors or

    in-house specialists, has immeasurably more credence with

    cynical executives.

    We hope that by providing independent verification,

    foundationed with the volumes of comparative data we have

    already quickly amassed, workplace designers can start to

    empirically demonstrate the role t hey should be playing in

    delivering environments that i mpact on business bottom

    line. A h igher reported sense of productivity should surelyinterest most executives? Workplace design should be seen as

    a component delivering competitive advantage. We hope our

    data can do that.

    And for those managing workplaces, this also offers the

    opportunity to start examining how the facilities services

    overlaid on a workplace once the designer has finished his

    work, impact on individual employees.

    It has been suggested that our data will bring designers

    closer to workplace managers and that collectively and more

    collaboratively both can take the “better workplace = business

    benefit” debate further up the executive food chain, to those

    most interested in the cost to revenue ratio equation .

    Our aggregated data is made freely avail able to anyone

    needing ammunition to tackle that debate. For those

    clients using our Lmi effectiveness measure inside their

    organisations, th at debate is already happening.

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    10,000 respondents

    37% of home-workers are havingto use a non-work specic locationie a dining table, with just 41% having a dedicated separate workroom or oce.

    22% of respondents werebased in a shared or solo oce,with 61% of them reporting thatthe design of their space enabledthem to work productively.

    58% of those with a non-allocatedwork setting agree this enables themto work productively, 6% morethan those with an allocated openplan desk.

    95% of respondents rank theiroce chair as an important partof an eective oce with 67% of them satised with the chairthey are provided with.

    The term “benchmarking”is attributed to mid 19thCentury surveyors who soughta consistent way of mountingmeasuring equipment.

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    Stephen Moorcroft | Associate ArchitectTTSP

    TTSP is pleased to be an early

    adopter of the Leesman Index. 10,000

    respondents is a huge milestone and

    reflects the growing value that we

    believe this survey brings to highlight

    the power of i ntelligent workplace

    design. We focus on our clients'

    corporate goals, values and brand alongside the usual

    headcount and growth projections. But Leesman offers

    a complementary strand of briefing process that engages

    a client's entire workforce across so many more human

    touch points.

    With more responses, the I ndex strengthens and provides

    an increasingly indisputable benchmark for workspace user

    satisfaction. With our clients we look for the anomalies;

    where staff are unusually d issatisfied or have an increased

    sense of importance. This helps corroborate a high level

    brief and in austere ti mes identifies where a project team

    should invest the most effort to deliver high impact,

    measurable improvements and appropriate change.

    The outcome is workspace that recognises what we all

    intuitively know - that any company's biggest asset is its

    people - and that with an effective environment, they

    become an empowered, productive workforce.

      [email protected]

    Monica Parker| Head of Workplace Consultancy

    Morgan Lovell

    One of my fondest memories growing

    up was my father and I building a large

    fence for our back yard in Atlanta.

    It was a sticky July in the midst of

    the summer heat. I was less than

    enthusiastic. But what I remember

    most, with saw and tape-measure in

    hand was the phrase t hat he repeatedly

    reinforced - “measure twice, cut once”.

    What Leesman allows me to do is measure, and measure,

    and then measure again, before I cut. Too often consultants

    are asked to offer solutions that will have significant and

    far reaching effects on t he outcome of a business without

    proper data. This is i n danger of reducing the design process

    to guesswork. Leesman is my first measuring stick against

    which I can begin to design my approach. And with 10,000+

    comparative responses, it gives my clients a real sense of how

    they compare. Yes I could do my job without it, but it would

    take me infinitely longer to get to a less well-crafted, less

    measured solution.

      [email protected]

    Louis Lhoest | Director International Business

    Veldhoen + Company

    Activity based working and activity

    based working environments have been

    the most significant development in

    the way we work in the Netherlands

    and Australia in the past decade.

    Organisations of all kinds h ave

    experienced th e benefits of new ways of

    working which are supported by Activity

    Based Work (ABW) environments.

    ABW is a smar ter way of working th at enables employeesto be more entrepreneurial and gives them greater freedom

    to choose when and where they work. So it’s goodbye

    to unnecessary ru les and procedures, to permanent

    workplaces and inflexible working hours. A BW promotes

    knowledge sharing, working in the digital age, faster

    and better collaboration and personal accountability

    and responsibility. This increases employee satisfaction,

    productivity and so the service to clients. With data to

    prove that, we can do more.

    So to help us support the development of activity based

    work environments, Veldhoen + Company and Leesman

    have created the Veldhoen Activity Survey module which

    when attached to the Leesman Index survey, provides us

    with indispensable insights into the current activity patterns

    within departments and across organisations. This depth of

    data is powerful. The Veldhoen / Leesman toolset is one we

    keenly advocate.

      [email protected]

    5

    31% of respondents listedVideo Conferencing as animportant workplace activity,but just 44% could report thatit was eectively supported.

    81% of respondents listTelephone Conversations asan important workplace activity,with 67% agreeing that theactivity was supported.

    82% of respondents rankednatural light as an importantworkplace feature, 9% morethan oce lighting. Just 47% were satised with its provision.

    91% of respondents rank tea,coee and refreshment facilitiesas an important part of an eectiveoce, with 21% dissatised withtheir provision.

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      The design of my workspace is important to me

    It contributes to a sense of community at work

    It creates an enjoyable environment to work in

    It enables me to work product ively

    It’s a place I’m proud to bring visitors to

    6

    2012 Q2 Data SummaryLmi 58.7

    Ratings reported from 11,198 respondents surveyedto date. Variance shown from 2012 Q1. Figures representcombined “supported, well supported, very well supported”activities and “satised, highly satised’ facilities andfeatures listed.

    61%  -1% Individual focusedwork away from desk

    77%  0% Individual focusedwork, desk based 

    87%  0%Individualroutine tasks

    73%  -1% Informal socialinteraction

    59%  -1% Informal un-plannedmeetings  

    57%  -2% Relaxing/takinga break

    21%  -1%Variety of dierenttypes of workspace

    18%  -1% Quiet rooms for workingalone or in pairs

    34%  -1%Informal work areas/breakout zones

    75%  0% Learning fromothers

    62%  0% Collaborating oncreative work

    70%  -1% Collaborating onfocused work

    1. Who are Leesman? Europe’s leading and fastestgrowing independent workplace eectivenessmeasurement experts .

    Europe’s largest resource of contemporary workplace performance data

           R     e     s     p     o     n       d     e     n       t     s

    Standardised Workplace Eectiveness Measurement

    2. What makes Leesman “independent”? Leesmanoer no consultancy services - just standardisedeectiveness measurement tools.

    3. What is the Leesman Index? Leesman’s standardizedeectiveness measurement benchmark that calculatesan “Lmi score” for each workplace.

    4. What is the Lmi measuring? The activities peopleare doing and how the physical features and facilitiesservices provided, support them in their work.

    5. Are the responses condential? Yes, completelyanonymous. No response can ever be linked backto an individual respondent.

    6. So what will that data show? Exactly and verygraphically how well your real estate is support ingthe work of your teams in your spaces.

    7. And does this measure sta productivity? Not directly,but it does ask whether the design of the workplaceenables sta to “work productively”?

    8. What types of organisations are using Leesman?Any one with sta occupying workplace, from motormanufacturers, to legal practices.

    9. When is best to do a Leesman survey? In truth at anytime. But certainly as early as possible in planning acapital project.

    10. Can it then be used after a project is complete? Yes this is a perfect way of measuring the improvementsachieved if a survey was also done prior.

    11. How many people should be invited to participate? Leesman will help you get as many respondents aspossible – it has no bearing on the cost.

    12. How much does it cost? The “launch” of a single survey,to up to 5 building locations is £6,950 regardless ofrespondent numbers.

    13. What if there are more than 5 buildings to survey? Then there is an additional charge of £1,250 per building.License packages are available for bigger estates.

    Data review

    The data reported above shows highlights from the aggregated resultsacross the 11,198 individual respondent received at 30th June 2012.These results are provided t hrough the Leesman Index employeeworkplace satisfaction e-sur vey, which has been conducted acrossa range of pre and post occupancy workplace projects as shown.

    The survey is based around a xed core module in which the questionsasked do not vary. This provides us with an unrivaled ability to repor tand benchmark consistently across that data and oer valuable insightto dierences between any number of variables, including industrytype, location, gender, age or length of service.

    •  43 surveys across 140 properties•  84% pre-project, 11% post-project, 4% other•  63% average response rate•  11 minute average response time

    How much do you agree or disagree with the following statements about the design of yourorganisation’s oce?

    12000100002000 4000 6000 8000

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    Number of responses

     Disagree Strongly (-3)Disagree (-2)Disagree Slightly (-1)Neutral (0)Agree Slightly (1)Agree (2)Agree Strongly (3)

    Data ranked by satisfaction

      total no of respondents

    Which activities do you feel are important in your work and how well are they supported?

      Individual focused work, desk based

    Telephone conversationsPlanned meetings

    Informal, un-planned meetings

    Business condential discussions

    Collaborating on focused work

    Reading

    Relaxing / taking a break

    Individual routine tasks

    Thinking / creative thinking

    Informal social interaction

    Spreading out paper or materials

    Hosting visitors, clients or customers

    Learning from others

    Audio conferences

    Larger group meetings or audiences

    Collaborating on creative work

    Individual focused work away from your desk

    Video conferences

    Using technical / specialist equipment or materials

    Private conversations

    Not Supported At All (-3)Very Under Supported (-2)Under Supported (-1)Supported (1)Well Supported (2)Very Well Supported (3)

    Data ranked by importance

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      DeskChair

    Computing equipment

    Telephone equipment

    Temperature control

    Printing / copying / scanning equipment

    Personal storage

    Natural light

    Meeting rooms (small)

    Noise levels

    In-oce network connectivit y

    Oce lighting

    Meeting rooms (large)

    Air quality

    Remote access to work les or network

    Informal work areas / break-out zones

    Quiet rooms for working alone or in pairs

    Space between work-settings

    Desk / room booking systems

    Shared storage

    Accessibility of colleagues

    Archive storage

    Audio-Visual equipment

    Variety of dierent types of workspace

    Guest / visitor network access

    7

    60%  0%In-oce networkconnectivity

    57%  -1% Remote access towork les or network 

    54%  0% Printing /copyingequipment

    67%  0% Desk

    62%  -1% Chair

    35%  0% Dividers(between desks/areas)

    28%  0%Air quality 

    21%  +1% Temperature control

    27%  0% Noise levels

    21%  -2%Greenery

    16%  -1% Art or photography

    37%  0% General decor

    58%  -2%Audio conferences

    43%  -2% Video conferences

    60%  -1% Using technical / specialistequipment/materials

    55%  -2% Hosting visitors,clients or customers

    30%  -2% Guest / visitornetwork access 

    40%  -1%Business condentialdiscussions

    White Paper challengesmeasurement protocols In an industry which is becoming increasingly focused oncost cutting initiatives, built environment management andcosts consultancy RLF Optima argue that we are missing thebigger picture and losing out on substantial protability asa result of chasing the pennies.

    In a research paper which will be published next month,drawing on data from the Leesman Index and others,Steve Henigan, partner at RLF Optima & Steve Wright ofarchitects and workplace design experts TTSP propose thatthe current workplace paradigm has reached the limits ofits eectiveness and will put forward an alternative more

    holistic model for the review of a workplace performance,

    its functions and the employees it houses. Heniganand Wright will argue that the exist ing workplaceperformance metrics are outdated and awed andwill draw on multiple examples to suggest attitudesshould change.

    To receive a copy of the report or attend thepresentation that will launch it, [email protected]  |  [email protected]

    Those interested in joining the Leesman power analystscommunity should contact Operations Manager

    Lisa Bhudia. [email protected] 

    12000

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    Which facilities do you consider to be an important part of an eective workspace and howsatised are you with them?  Tea, coee and other refreshment facilities

    General cleanliness

    Washroom facilities / showers

    Reception areas

    Hospitality services

    Not ProvidedHighly Dissatised (-2)Dissatised (-1)Neutral (0)Satised (1)Highly Satised (2)

    Data ranked by importance

      total no of respondents

    Number of responses

    Which features do you consider to be an important part of an eective workspace and howsatised are you with them?

     

    Not ProvidedHighly Dissatised (-2)Dissatised (-1)Neutral (0)Satised (1)Highly Satised (2)

    Data ranked by importance

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    The business of“workplace” is of course anear global one. Whereverpeople work in ocespaces, there are those

    whose job it is to make thatexperience a productiveone. When we set out tocreate a unied platformfor the measurement ofworkplace eectivenesswe knew that thosepractitioners wouldsteadily become moreinterested in what we weredoing, because the data wewere collecting could helpinform those practices.

    We were also aware thatthe market for workplacestrategy diers globally.Dierent countriesdier widely in whatconstitutes innovationor inventiveness. Otherglobal economic factorsinuence this heavily – what is an acceptableworkplace occupationdensity in one countrymay be nanciallyimpossible in another.

    So our Leesman Indexseeks to measure andcompare just one universalfactor – the ability of aworkplace to supportthe activities importantto its occupants. This isincreasingly bringing us towork with corporate clientswho have multiple oces

    in multiple internationallocations – whose interestis in how well their spacesare performing.

    But separating the externalinuencing factors andunderstanding whatimplication each is having(t-out expenditure,occupant densities,occupant utilisation, localcultural dierences etc) iswhere we become reliant onthe consultants and clientsusing our index tool. It istheir comparative analysisthat will begin to drawready comparisons across

    geographic boundaries.

    Respondents have thusfar come from 17 dierentcountries. The UK provides70% of the data so far buta further 20% comes from

    other European nations.Leading these are Swedenand the Netherlands.Surveys presently open orin construction for clientsshould see us gain a furtherthree to four-thousandinternational respondentsbefore the end of this year.

    And of those surveyscompleted so far, thevast majority are pre-occupancy studies – thoseconducted prior to a capitalintervention. Many of thoseprojects are using Leesmandata to help inform a designor relocation project, soover time, we will start todevelop a broader picture ofthe improvements achievedfor those employeespost-project. But 17% ofour respondents are frompost a capital project. Andsome of these employeescompleted some of ourearliest deployments, sowe hope that within thenext six months we will beable to separately report onour Lmi for pre-occupancyand post-occupancy studiesand to report on the extentto which organisationsare able to improve theirworkspace experiencesfor their sta.

    On 14th June 2012 the Leesman Index received it’s 10,000th response toit’s standardised workplace eectiveness e-questionnaire. The submissioncame from a respondent in Sweden. This not only established the LeesmanIndex as the largest contemporary collection of workplace eectivenessdata, but also established it’s potential to do that on an international basis.

    Global data

    72% 28%FemaleMale

    92% 8%Full time Part time

    Gender

    Proportion of full time/ part time employees

    Employeelength ofservice

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    70.8%UK19.8%Europe (excl UK)

    Respondentorigin

    Respondentcountries

    AustraliaBelgium

    Costa RicaFrance

    FinlandGermany

    Isle of ManItaly

    MaltaMorocco

    NetherlandsNorway

    SpainS AfricaSweden

    UAEUK

    Age

    9.4%Elswhere

    0.4%

    - 18

    30.7%

    35-44

    9.7%

    18-24

     27.6%

    45-54

    27%

    25-34

    4.4%

    55-64

    0.2%

    65 +

    6 months3%

    6-18 months12.3%18 months – 3 years11.1%

    3 – 8 years25.6% 8 – 12 years +12.8%

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    The Olympic data legacy

    10

    On the morning of 28th July, the British media was in almost unanimous

    agreement. In a resounding counter-attack on the general economic mood ofthe nation, everyone who cared was consistent in thoughts and comments

     – the opening ceremony of the London Olympic games had been remarkable.From there on in, a nation was hooked.

     A good proportion had

    rather doubted the likelihood

    of being able to have that

    conversation. Colossal

    frustrations over the

    management of the event

    ticket sales had not started

    things well. Then latterly,

    barrages of warnings about

    the ability of London’s

    infrastructure to cope

    worried many more.

    Media networks

    (broadcast, print and

    social) began debating how

    London’s business would

    cope. Stories of Internet

    connectivity collapsing under

    the pressure of 575,000

    Olympic tourists bombarding

    central London networks

    were typical. Night ly,

    local news channels would

    interview someone who’s

    business would be decimated

    by gridlocked streets. Every

    taxi driver brightened hailed

    journeys with debate of would

    they stay and work or desert

    London for the fortnight.Headlines demanded

    parliamentary enquiries

    when contractor G4S failed

    to provide the contracted

    number of security staff on

    time and military personnel

    were drafted in.

    And like the Y2K bug

    12-years prior, bigger

    businesses built teams who

    developed contingency plans

    and for the last six-months

    workplace strategy forums

    have been awash with the

    promise of the UK’s largest

    ever flexible and home

    working live experiment.

     

    The reality of course

    was different. London’s

    transport infrastructure

    performed near brilliantly.

    1m spectators, 60,000

    officials and dignitaries and

    10,383 athletes got to their

    venues on time. And those

    who had been unsuccessful

    in obtaining t ickets instead

    turned on their televisions and

    computers, tablets and smart

    phones. It was no surprise

    4000 HSBC staff successfully

    worked from home at some

    point during the games – the

    BBC was providing the most

    spectacular back-to-back

    coverage of every event!

    The BBC started well.

    Their opening ceremony

    coverage attracted a peak

    UK audience of 27.3m, the

    largest television event in UK

    history. During their busiest

    24hrs, traffic to their online

    live event coverage exceeded

    the entire traffic volume for

    the 2010 world cup, delivering

    2.8 petabytes of content.Web access continuously

    peaked at lunchtimes and

    mid-afternoon. Tablet use

    peaked at 9pm as users set

    them up as a second screen

    alongside their televisions.

    1.9m people downloaded the

    BBC’s Olympic mobile app.

    Those viewers feasted

    on the sporting spectacular.

    And daily were offered huge

    volumes of data. Gold medal

    tallies, Olympics records

    broken, world records

    broken.

    The viewing public were

    given a two-week intensive

    course in statistics.

    None was better than

    the men’s tennis final.

    Roger Federer had fought

    for his place in the final

    with Delportro in the

    longest match in Olympic

    tennis history. It was his

    first successful attempt in

    four previous attempts. In

    comparison, Murray had

    straight-setted Djokovic for

    his place. From a numbers

    perspective, pundits put

    Federer in a marginal ly

    stronger position.

    But the pundits had

    overlooked one key statistic.

    In all of their tallying –

    head-to-head matches won

    to date, wins on grass, serve

    speed, aces won, service

    points won / lost, break-

    points won / lost, etc etc, they

    had failed to consider that

    this was not another circuit

    Grand Slam. The statistics

    here had one significantexternal factor that would

    change the normal Federer

    vs. Murray dynamic. Here,

    the players would walk onto

    Wimbledon Centre Court

    not representing t hemselves,

    but representing their

    country. Traditional whites

    were gone.

    Walking out on to

    centre-court, perhaps 80%

    of the capacity 15,000

    crowd awaited

    one thing – to see Murray

    draped with a gold medal.

    This was perhaps the biggest

    difference from when the

    two had met two weeks

    prior on the same g rass.

    There, tennis fans were

    cheering for their preferred

    player. Whilst li kely there

    were a few more cheering

    in Murray's favour, Federer

    has always attracted fans of

    tennis to his precise style.

    But now, representing thei r

    countries not themselves,

    both found themselves in

    an entirely different arena.

    The powerful Federer brand

    machine had been left at

    home. Federer now in red

    strip, Murray in blue. Boyed

    by the team GB successes

    in so many other events this

    crown were there almost in

    their full entirety to witness,

    and therefore cheer for

    one outcome.

    It is impossible to speculate

    what impact that this would

    have had on the playerranked No1 in the world. But

    that particular benchmark

    looked in doubt when

    Federer lost his ninth game

    in a row. The final 6-2, 6 -1,

    6-4 outcome was watched

    by 10.7m. Hardly a crowd

    puller compared to the Men's

    100m final, where the media

    interest in Usain Bolt

    delivered 20m and Bolt

    delivered a new Olympic

    record of 9.63 seconds.

    Throughout the games,

    records were broken. Team

    GB setting the highest team

    tally of new Olympic and

    World records in the track

    cycling. But in all of the data

    and all of the performance

    tables and statistics, the

    International Olympic

    Committee is clear – medal

    records are for information

    only and do not represent a

    competition or league table

    in themselves. Because of the

    differences in populations

    and resources the Committee

    believes nobody should be

    ashamed whether they make

    it to the medal podium or not.

    Yet in Citius, Altius, Fortius,

    “Faster, Higher, Stronger”

    there is a need for comparison

     – a need to measure and

    assess differences. And in

    that motto, Olympic data is

    intrinsic in the legacy.

    Team GB's CarlMyerscough was the

    heaviest athlete at

    160kg

    Olympic stadium seats

    80,000

    China's Zhaoxu Zhang was thetallest athlete competing at

    2.19m

    Japan's Asuka Teramoto wasthe smallest and lightest

    athlete at just 30kg and1.36m tall

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    5,000 reinforced concrete columnswere installed into the ground,up to20m deep, to provide the

    foundations to supportthe Stadium

    Olympic stadium contains around10,000 tonnes of steel – it will bethe lightest Olympic Stadium to date The turf for the eld of play

    was grown in Scunthorpe

    The Stadium is lit by 532 individual oodlights housed

    in14 towers to meet therequirements of high-def TV

    broadcasting

    232 tonnes of potatoes were

    served on the olympic park

    240,000 games-makerapplications for 70,000 

    positions

    Games-makers provided

    8 million volunteered hoursafter attending 1 million 

    training hours

    150,000condoms were dispensed free

    on the Olympic village

    The athletes village included

    2,818 apartments requiring16,000 beds, 9,000 wardrobes,11,000 sofas, 22,000 pillows,

    1,200 blankets and28,000 branded

    duvets

    The Olympic park saw over4,000 trees, 74,000 plants,60,000 bulbs and 350,000 wetlands plants planted – the

    largest planting project everundertaken in the UK

    Games-maker uniforms required

    765.92 miles of fabric, 359.37 miles of thread, 730,610 buttons

    and1,069,034 zips

    On the 13th August Heathrow

    Airport handled 203,000 piecesof games luggage

    Public sector funding forthe games reached

    £9.298bn

    BBC viewing gures for mens

    100m nal 20 million

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     After a couple of years of

    personally evangelising on

    the subject, this is good to

    see. But this is not wh at you

    might expect. This is not

    a few isolated individuals

    offered the opportunity for

    greater work location choice.

    This is home working at a

    wholly new dimension – big

    scale. Forget “off-shoring”,

    “home-shoring” is the new

    corporate buzz phrase.

    Home-shoring – pushing

    contact centre staff to work

    from their own homes

    rather than pushing roles

    abroad (off-shoring), is the

    new strategy for contact

    centre staff and in part at

    least will help overcome the

    backlash from customers

    tired of talking to agents

    that clearly aren’t fully

    culturalised to their

    reasonable expectations.

    Industry insights suggest

    that 30% of contact centreagents will happily work

    from home. The US has

    been leading this dr ive but

    it has now firmly arrived

    this side of the Atlantic.

    These experiments

    are putting t he topic

    of remote workspace

    at increasing height on

    the executive agenda,

    with in-house contact

    centres now increasingly

    willi ng to measure the

    impact of workspace

    on work effectiveness.

    And as contact centre

    staff performance is so

    easily measured, we can

    expect the next chapter

    in remote working to be a

    cliff-hanger one. If these

    household names see

    measured success for these

    task-specific staff, then

    we should assume that

    the same experiments will

    be explored with greater

    energies in other parts

    of the business, quickly

    thereafter.

    Elsewhere, you should

    know Microsoft is getting

    ready for a make-over withWindows 8, an operating

    system that will blend

    worlds of PC, tablets and

    mobile. Expect Office365

    to be the wrapper of all

    things Microsoft Office

    and Communications in

    the cloud, with links to

    Skype in a novel tablet

    with keyboard - Apple has

    clearly woken them out of

    their sleep. So don’t write

    off Microsoft yet!

    And if you have missed

    any of the ads for Goog le’s

    new iPad-esque tablet,

    get to an electrical store

    and play with one. Service

    providers turning into

    hardware suppliers has

    a chequered history,

    but Amazon at least has

    proven it is a route worth

    exploring. The world’s

    biggest search engine is

    already in our pockets,

    on our smartphones and

    preferred tablets, so this

    is an interesting turn. But

    at a third of the cost of t he

    Apple equivalent, a move

    worth watching.

    And as for iPhone5. Wellits slimmer and lighter and

    has a bigger screen. Why

    wouldn't you want one?

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    facility where those seeking

    greater detailed evidence

    can use a new quarterly

    comprehensive report to

    integrate with their own

    businesses.

     The report will also

    track grouped reporting

    lines, considering theperformance of technology,

    furniture or environmental

    services, giving both

    workplace professionals and

    their product suppliers, key

    strategic insights into those

    areas most needing address.

     Initially in printed and

    pdf form, the report will

    later next year be available

    in a more dynamic onlineenvironment where users

    will be able to filter the data

    More on the webout of oceauto-reply?

    Next issue: 

    Worth a closer look

    Philip Vanhoutte,Chair of Leesman’sAdvisory Board

    Home working experimentnext chapter unfolding

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