# Space utilization: Workplace Occupancy Series

> The median published figure in the Workplace Occupancy Series is 28 percent across 7 sources' own pages (range 13.50 to 60 percent), read 12 October 2026.

HardFM · https://hardfmly.com/datasets/workplace-occupancy-series/ · computed 2026-10-18

**Median published figure:** 28 % (range 13.5 to 60 %; 7 sources with a figure; 7 of 17 sources read publish one).

7 of the 17 named sources read in full publish a figure; 10 publish none, read 12 October 2026.

The median is unchanged since 26 September 2026 (was 28 percent across 7).

## By jurisdiction

| Breakdown | Median | Range | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|
| jurisdiction Australia (ABS, usually work from home) | 36 % | 36 to 36 % | 1 |
| jurisdiction United States (BLS ATUS, some work at home on days worked) | 35 % | 35 to 35 % | 1 |
| jurisdiction Great Britain (ONS, hybrid working) | 28 % | 28 to 28 % | 1 |
| jurisdiction European Union (Eurostat, usually working from home) | 13.5 % | 13.5 to 13.5 % | 1 |
| jurisdiction Canada (Statistics Canada, mostly from home) | 20.1 % | 20.1 to 20.1 % | 1 |
| jurisdiction United States (Census, worked from home) | 15 % | 15 to 15 % | 1 |
| jurisdiction United States federal estate (GSA USE IT Act minimum occupancy benchmark) | 60 % | 60 to 60 % | 1 |

## Every figure, with its source

One row per source: the figure the source's own page publishes, the page, and the day it was read.

| Source | Figure | Breakdown | Read |
|---|---|---|---|
| [GSA news release: GSA releases USE IT Act data](https://www.gsa.gov/about-gsa/newsroom/news-releases/gsa-releases-use-it-act-data-03312026) | 60 % | United States federal estate (GSA USE IT Act minimum occupancy benchmark) | 2026-10-12 |
| [ABS Working arrangements, latest release](https://www.abs.gov.au/statistics/labour/earnings-and-working-conditions/working-arrangements/latest-release) | 36 % | Australia (ABS, usually work from home) | 2026-10-11 |
| [BLS ATUS news release (current)](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/atus.htm) | 35 % | United States (BLS ATUS, some work at home on days worked) | 2026-10-12 |
| [ONS: Who has access to hybrid work in Great Britain?](https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwork/employmentandemployeetypes/articles/whohasaccesstohybridworkingreatbritain/2025-06-11) | 28 % | Great Britain (ONS, hybrid working) | 2026-10-12 |
| [Statistics Canada: Research to Insights, working from home](https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/11-631-x/11-631-x2024001-eng.htm) | 20.1 % | Canada (Statistics Canada, mostly from home) | 2026-10-12 |
| [US Census Bureau: commuting (including work from home)](https://www.census.gov/topics/employment/commuting.html) | 15 % | United States (Census, worked from home) | 2026-10-12 |
| [Eurostat: rise in EU population working from home](https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/products-eurostat-news/-/ddn-20221108-1) | 13.5 % | European Union (Eurostat, usually working from home) | 2026-10-12 |

## The sentence each figure was read from (7)

- [GSA news release: GSA releases USE IT Act data](https://www.gsa.gov/about-gsa/newsroom/news-releases/gsa-releases-use-it-act-data-03312026), read 2026-10-12: "The minimum acceptable threshold is 60 percent occupancy."
- [ABS Working arrangements, latest release](https://www.abs.gov.au/statistics/labour/earnings-and-working-conditions/working-arrangements/latest-release), read 2026-10-11: "36% of employed people usually work from home."
- [BLS ATUS news release (current)](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/atus.htm), read 2026-10-12: "--On days they worked, 35 percent of employed people did some or all of their work at home and 70"
- [ONS: Who has access to hybrid work in Great Britain?](https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwork/employmentandemployeetypes/articles/whohasaccesstohybridworkingreatbritain/2025-06-11), read 2026-10-12: "More than a quarter (28%) of working adults in Great Britain hybrid worked between January and March 2025; the proportion of hybrid workers has gradually risen since March 2022, but those who only travel to work has declined."
- [Statistics Canada: Research to Insights, working from home](https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/11-631-x/11-631-x2024001-eng.htm), read 2026-10-12: "It was 20.1% in May 2023."
- [US Census Bureau: commuting (including work from home)](https://www.census.gov/topics/employment/commuting.html), read 2026-10-12: "More than 15 percent of workers worked from home, and the share of workers who commuted by public transportation remained low by historical standards."
- [Eurostat: rise in EU population working from home](https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/products-eurostat-news/-/ddn-20221108-1), read 2026-10-12: "To a lesser extent, there was a further increase in the share of people usually working from home in 2021, as it reached 13.5% (+1.2 pp)."

## Read in full, publishes no figure

- [GSA USE IT Act and occupancy data annual reports](https://www.gsa.gov/real-estate/use-it-act-and-occupancy-data/use-it-act-and-occupancy-data-annual-reports), read 2026-10-12: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- [BLS American Time Use Survey news release](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/atus.nr0.htm), read 2026-09-12: every candidate on the page was refused
- [BLS ATUS annual data tables](https://www.bls.gov/tus/database/tustabs.htm), read 2026-10-12: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- [ONS: Home and hybrid working, Great Britain (dataset)](https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwork/employmentandemployeetypes/datasets/homeandhybridworkinggreatbritain), read 2026-09-12: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- [ONS: Characteristics of homeworkers, Great Britain](https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwork/employmentandemployeetypes/articles/characteristicsofhomeworkersgreatbritain/september2022tojanuary2023), read 2026-09-12: every candidate on the page was refused
- [Eurostat lfsa_ehomp: employed persons working from home](https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/lfsa_ehomp/default/table?lang=en), read 2026-10-12: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- [Statistics Canada: Working from home in Canada](https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/daily-quotidien/240118/dq240118c-eng.htm), read 2026-09-12: every candidate on the page was refused
- [ABS media release: working from home remains popular but less than in 2021](https://www.abs.gov.au/media-centre/media-releases/working-home-remains-popular-less-2021), read 2026-10-12: every candidate on the page was refused
- [CBRE global workplace and occupancy insights](https://www.cbre.com/insights/reports/2026-global-workplace-and-occupancy-insights), read 2026-10-12: every candidate on the page was refused
- [JLL global occupancy planning benchmark report](https://www.jll.com/en-us/insights/occupancy-benchmark-report), read 2026-10-12: every candidate on the page was refused

## Methodology

Every row is a verbatim sentence read from the named source's own page through our fetch service on the date shown, hash-pinned to the stored read (the sha of the page's visible text; the raw page is mirrored to R2). 7 of the 17 named sources that could be read published a usable figure; 10 published none and are recorded as not published, never filled in; 1 could not be read (blocked, dead or unreachable) and count nowhere. The headline figures (median, minimum, maximum, quartiles) are over ONE figure per source in % (a source's median where its page yielded several accepted sentences), so N counts sources, never sentences; 116 candidate sentence(s) were refused by a reviewer with the reason recorded. The fuller derivation this dataset is chartered to grow into (not yet what the figures above are; they are each source's own published figure as read): one series per jurisdiction from the national statistical office (home and hybrid working share) joined to the only published per-building occupancy in existence (the US federal estate under the USE IT Act, against its own 60% benchmark and 150 usable square feet per person), giving the desk-sharing ratio a workplace can be planned to: how many people are in on an average day, how far the published federal utilisation sits below the benchmark, and how those move quarter on quarter - a public-source series set against a public benchmark, where the market's only numbers are vendors' and brokers' own client panels

## Sources

- [GSA news release: GSA releases USE IT Act data](https://www.gsa.gov/about-gsa/newsroom/news-releases/gsa-releases-use-it-act-data-03312026) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [GSA USE IT Act and occupancy data annual reports](https://www.gsa.gov/real-estate/use-it-act-and-occupancy-data/use-it-act-and-occupancy-data-annual-reports) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [BLS American Time Use Survey news release](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/atus.nr0.htm) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [BLS ATUS news release (current)](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/atus.htm) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [BLS ATUS annual data tables](https://www.bls.gov/tus/database/tustabs.htm) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [ONS: Home and hybrid working, Great Britain (dataset)](https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwork/employmentandemployeetypes/datasets/homeandhybridworkinggreatbritain) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [ONS: Who has access to hybrid work in Great Britain?](https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwork/employmentandemployeetypes/articles/whohasaccesstohybridworkingreatbritain/2025-06-11) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [ONS: Characteristics of homeworkers, Great Britain](https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwork/employmentandemployeetypes/articles/characteristicsofhomeworkersgreatbritain/september2022tojanuary2023) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [Eurostat: rise in EU population working from home](https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/products-eurostat-news/-/ddn-20221108-1) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [Eurostat lfsa_ehomp: employed persons working from home](https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/lfsa_ehomp/default/table?lang=en) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [Statistics Canada: Working from home in Canada](https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/daily-quotidien/240118/dq240118c-eng.htm) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [Statistics Canada: Research to Insights, working from home](https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/11-631-x/11-631-x2024001-eng.htm) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [ABS Working arrangements, latest release](https://www.abs.gov.au/statistics/labour/earnings-and-working-conditions/working-arrangements/latest-release) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [ABS media release: working from home remains popular but less than in 2021](https://www.abs.gov.au/media-centre/media-releases/working-home-remains-popular-less-2021) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [US Census Bureau: commuting (including work from home)](https://www.census.gov/topics/employment/commuting.html) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [CBRE global workplace and occupancy insights](https://www.cbre.com/insights/reports/2026-global-workplace-and-occupancy-insights) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [JLL global occupancy planning benchmark report](https://www.jll.com/en-us/insights/occupancy-benchmark-report) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [gsa.gov](https://www.gsa.gov/real-estate/use-it-act-and-occupancy-data) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)

## Cite or embed

- The median published figure in the Workplace Occupancy Series is 28 percent across 7 sources' own pages (range 13.50 to 60 percent), read 12 October 2026.
- 7 of the 17 named sources read in full publish a figure; 10 publish none, read 12 October 2026.
- Workplace Occupancy Series, jurisdiction Australia (ABS, usually work from home): median 36 percent across 1 source, read 12 October 2026.
- Workplace Occupancy Series, jurisdiction United States (BLS ATUS, some work at home on days worked): median 35 percent across 1 source, read 12 October 2026.
- Workplace Occupancy Series, jurisdiction Great Britain (ONS, hybrid working): median 28 percent across 1 source, read 12 October 2026.
- Workplace Occupancy Series, jurisdiction European Union (Eurostat, usually working from home): median 13.50 percent across 1 source, read 12 October 2026.
- Workplace Occupancy Series, jurisdiction Canada (Statistics Canada, mostly from home): median 20.10 percent across 1 source, read 12 October 2026.
- Workplace Occupancy Series, jurisdiction United States (Census, worked from home): median 15 percent across 1 source, read 12 October 2026.
- Workplace Occupancy Series, jurisdiction United States federal estate (GSA USE IT Act minimum occupancy benchmark): median 60 percent across 1 source, read 12 October 2026.
- The median is unchanged since 26 September 2026 (was 28 percent across 7).

Cite as: "HardFM Workplace Occupancy Series", updated 2026-10-18, https://hardfmly.com/datasets/workplace-occupancy-series/.

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