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The Future of Workplace Experience: How Analytics Are Redefining Buildings and Employee Satisfaction

The modern workplace is no longer defined by where people work but by how buildings respond to them. As hybrid work evolves, the real measure of success isn’t occupancy — it’s experience. Organizations that understand this are moving from managing space to orchestrating workplace experience as a living system, powered by data and intelligence.

5 Digital Wallet Myths (Busted!)

Discover the 5 biggest myths about digital wallet access control and why now is the time to adopt faster, cheaper, more secure solutions.

When Offboarding Fails, Safety Fails:

Why “Instant, Everywhere” Access Control Matters

Are You Ready for Office Vibrancy?

Discover why office vibrancy is the new KPI for hybrid work. Learn how energy impacts security, culture, and space planning—and how to measure it.

Why Incomplete Space Planning Data is Costing You $18 Per Square Foot (and How to Fix It)

Cohesion's SpacePulse service uses behavioral data and advanced analytics to optimize workplace design, enhance employee experience, and reduce fit-out costs.

The Modern Visitor Management System: A Guide to Security & Experience

A visitor management system (VMS) is a technology solution that automates and digitizes the entire process of registering, monitoring, and managing visitors in a building. It replaces insecure and inefficient paper-based logs with a streamlined, software-driven workflow.At its core, a VMS serves as the central command center for your lobby, handling everything from sending visitor invitations to printing badges and notifying hosts of their guest's arrival.

Smart Tech, Satisfied Teams: Your Practical Guide

Discover how smart technology enhances employee experience, boosts satisfaction, and drives productivity in your workplace.

IoT in Smart Buildings: Future Trends & Tech

Imagine a commercial building that doesn't just house its occupants but actively anticipates their needs. It adjusts the lighting and temperature for an incoming meeting, alerts maintenance about a potential equipment failure before it happens, and continuously optimizes its energy consumption in real-time.

77 West Wacker’s Journey to Smarter Energy Use and Operational Excellence

77 West Wacker partnered with Cohesion to modernize energy management, creating data-driven baselines, tenant-level insights, and real-time demand response for smarter, cost-efficient operations.

The Dayton’s Project Smart Building Journey

The Dayton’s Project modernized amenity management with Cohesion’s digital reservations, boosting tenant satisfaction, doubling lounge use, and improving ROI across its downtown Minneapolis property.

Keycards to Mobile Access in 3 Weeks

Monroe Capital replaced keycards with Cohesion’s digital wallet, moving 200+ employees in 3 weeks while boosting security and improving the employee experience.

Navigating the AI Revolution: Beyond the Hype to Real Workplace Transformation

How AI is reshaping the workplace: Insights from a recent panel discussion on balancing innovation, focus, and human connection in the age of smart technology.

AI Smart Building Analytics: Maximize CRE ROI

In today's fiercely competitive commercial real estate (CRE) landscape, traditional investment approaches are yielding to more sophisticated, data-informed methods. The sheer volume of information generated by modern buildings presents both a challenge and an unprecedented opportunity.

IoT for Workplace Security: A Strategic Guide

The modern workplace, a dynamic interplay of people, technology, and physical space, demands an equally dynamic approach to security and safety. As organizations look to create environments that are not only productive but also profoundly secure, Internet of Things (IoT) technology emerges as a critical enabler.

EX vs WX: Workplace Experience Comes Into Focus

Discover why workplace experience is taking center stage in 2025. Learn how day-to-day environments, technology, and culture drive engagement, retention, and business performance in today’s hybrid world.

Beyond Work Orders: Creating a Holistic Maintenance Strategy with Cohesion's Intelligent Building Platform

The most efficient buildings aren't reactive—they're proactive, predictive, and prepared. Relying solely on traditional work order systems may keep a building functional, but it won't make it optimized.

The Mobile-First Building: Creating Seamless Experiences from Lobby to Office Space

In a mobile-first building, the lobby is more than just a waiting area—it's a gateway to the workplace experience. With the right technology in place, even the front entrance can become a source of convenience, security, and brand-building.

Anecdotes to AI: What Your Real Estate Analytics Might Be Missing

How the shift from traditional financial metrics to integrated operational data and AI-powered analysis is enabling smarter, real-time decision-making.

The ROI of Unified Access: How Cohesion's Platform Reduces Operational Costs While Strengthening Security Protocols

Access control has traditionally been viewed as a necessary building function—but in today’s smart buildings, it’s also an opportunity for operational savings, security enhancement, and portfolio-wide efficiency.

No More Clipboards: How Facilities and Operations are Being Transformed

How a quiet revolution in building operations is reshaping the future of real estate.

Beyond Amenities: How Cohesion's Smart Experience Platform Creates Tenant-Centric Buildings That Drive Retention

Occupant expectations have evolved rapidly in recent years. No longer satisfied with simply having access to a gym, café, or lounge, today’s occupants expect personalized, connected, and tech-enabled experiences throughout their workday.

Unified Access Control is Possible

Explore how unified access control is revolutionizing the built environment with a seamless ‘street-to-suite’ experience. Learn how digital wallets, cloud-based credential management, multi-PACS integrations, and real-time analytics enhance security, reduce costs, and optimize the occupant experience.

The 4 Stages of Energy Management

Part two of our series on the Smart Building Journey looks at how you can optimize building efficiency with smart energy management. Learn how integrated, responsive systems can enhance sustainability and savings.