Friday office occupancy is unlikely to rebound. Adjust accordingly, a specialist says.

Employees prefer to work from home or take time off at the end of the week, so schedule programming in the middle of the week, a CBRE consulting director says.

Employees are treating Fridays like a buffer zone between work and home life and that’s something that building operators can embrace in their occupancy planning, says Emily Botello, managing director of consulting in the Americas at CBRE. 

Across nearly two decades of data, Fridays are the lowest-use day of the week, Botello wrote in a December research note. People preferring to work from home on that day is lowering the average of otherwise rebounding utilization rates for many companies, she says. Only 12.4% of weekday office visits are happening on Fridays, compared to more than 23% on Tuesdays...

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RSK: The upside of this is if you`re ambitious, schedule time with your Boss or best contacts. They are likely to be free and take the time with you. Always a bright side to an otherwise dull side of things.