Mark Gilbreath, skipper at Liquidspace, digs into a piece by Scott Homa, Alex Colpaert, Lee Fong and Matthew McAuley at JLL that makes it abundantly clear: flex is now a core CRE strategy.

"The data is pretty hard to ignore: only 3% of large enterprises use flexible space for more than 10% of their portfolio. Average utilization sits at 54% against a corporate target of 79%. And 43% of corporate leaders expect headcount to grow."

"…The 3% figure isn’t a ceiling. It’s the starting line." Yes, Mark!

Mark Gilbreath shared that LiquidSpace have rolled out v2 of their DASH agreement, which standardizes enterprise purchases and subscriptions across multiple brands.

Nexudus shares a snap from The State of the Flex Industry talk at the GWA conference in Chicago where Ben Wright (The Instant Group) and Mark Gilbreath (LiquidSpace) spelt out serious enterprise take-up in flex.

While the latter’s overall marketplace CAGR (compound annual growth rate) was "just" +52%, their rate for enterprise categorized volume for 2022-2025 was +170%.

Jamie Russo delivers a masterclass on lead sources on her Everything Coworking podcast, exploring what platforms like Deskpass, LiquidSpace, Gable, Peerspace, Flexspace.ai, Google Maps and Syncaroo do – and why they may matter to your coworking business.

LiquidSpace has unveiled Portfolio Manager, an AI-powered scenario planning engine developed with Trebellar that enables workplace leaders to simulate real estate strategies and model financial impact in real-time. The platform integrates behavioral data on actual space usage, live cost benchmarks from global flexible office markets, and AI scenario modeling to help companies plan across leased, owned, and flexible spaces.

The partnership and platform aim to address the limitations of legacy workplace planning tools which were often designed for static, single-location workforces rather than today’s dynamic ecosystem of work environments.