Seat demand is read from modeled occupancy peaks. Badge entries never record departures, so they cannot show concurrent presence.
Applies to every site scenario below.
Inputs for The Woodlands. All figures below recompute from these.
95th percentile of working-hour peaks
Seat basis $70K · Area basis $59K
Sizing to the mid-week peak costs real money. The gap between Tue–Thu and Mon/Fri is the premium you pay for two days a week.
Mid-week P95 is 29 vs 23 on the lightest day — sizing to mid-week costs about $42K per year in seats that sit empty the rest of the week.
Working-hour peak per day, last 90 days
Lightest floor folded into a floor with spare peak capacity.
Not enough floors at this site to model a consolidation.
Stated so the numbers survive scrutiny.