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August 22, 2025 Commercial, Retail & Institutional

Workplaces Designed With Purpose, Not Just for Proportion

For decades, workplace design revolved around one deceptively simple metric: square feet (SQF) per person. It was measurable, easy to benchmark and effective for an era when work happened almost exclusively at the office.

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