The Workplace
Advantage.
Fernando Jauretche
Washington Workplace Summit
The research Fernando cited in his talk is on this page, sourced and written out so you can take it back to your own organization.
The Workplace
To connect for a conversation, please email him at fernando@freeformspaces.com
Does your office
help you do
your best work?
We’ve asked clients, their teams, and ourselves. The honest answer almost never matches the brochure.
1in4
employees say yes. The other three are paying rent on a building that works against them.
Gensler Global Workplace Survey, 2025
37%
of workers across 17 economies are disengaged. They show up. They don’t show up to the work.
Steelcase / Ipsos
$450B
is what disengagement costs U.S. employers each year.
Gallup, State of the American Workplace
79%
of the global workforce is not engaged.
Gallup, State of the Global Workplace, 2025
3×
more likely to stay in a great workplace with the same job, same pay, same manager.
Gensler 2025, 16,000+ workers, 15 countries
90%
of employees are proud of how their workplace looks.
47%
feel no connection to it.
That gap is a design problem, and design problems can be fixed.
Gensler 2025
“Eighty percent of your budget is people. Design a space where they’re not engaged, and you’ll lose far more than you ever saved.”
Kay Sargent, Director of Thought Leadership · HOK
80 / 10 / 10
The operating budget breaks down roughly 80/10/10.
People, technology, real estate. Cutting real estate to save a fraction and losing even a fraction of the people cost doesn’t work out.
“The workplace is not just a mirror of your culture. It is a driver of it.”
Elizabeth Brink · Co-CEO · Gensler
Let’s talk about your building.
If you want to talk through what your building is doing to your people, we’re ready.
Boise · Spokane · Tri-Cities