85% of occupiers now expect their landlord to provide enhanced amenities, and almost half would pay more for them. Power at the seat is one amenity a building can add without construction.
"Landlords have an opportunity to lead by offering services, not just space."
Cushman & Wakefield, What Occupiers Want 2025, produced with CoreNet Global
Every two years, Cushman & Wakefield and CoreNet Global ask corporate real estate leaders what they need from their buildings. The 2025 edition of What Occupiers Want covers organizations with about 8.1 million employees across the Americas, Europe and Asia Pacific. It shows how the conversation between tenant and landlord has shifted:
- 85% expect more from the building. Occupiers expect landlords to provide enhanced amenities, services and workplace experiences.
- 46% would pay a premium for those upgrades.
- Occupancy is settling at 51% to 60%. Offices are fuller than they were, but still below pre-pandemic levels.
- Only 60% of employees say their workplace fully supports collaboration, relationships and culture.
Tenants are no longer comparing rent per square foot alone. They are comparing what the building does for the people who come in.
The amenity everyone uses and nobody lists
Amenity floors, tenant lounges, terraces and shared conference centers are built to get people out of their own suite. They work until a laptop drops to 15%. Then people drift back to their desks, or to the two armchairs next to the only outlet.
Adding outlets to an amenity space means opening floors and walls in a finished, occupied building. Leaving them out means the lounge looks good on the tour and empties by mid-afternoon.
Nobody puts charging in the amenity brochure. Everybody notices when it is missing.
Power as a building service
Battery power lets a landlord offer charging the way Cushman & Wakefield suggests, as a service rather than as more space:
- Tenants serve themselves. People borrow a power bank from an Omni Power Station with the free Omnicharge app, work anywhere in the lounge, and return it on the way out.
- One outlet per station. An Omni Power Station 30C+ recharges eight power banks from a single wall outlet and has wireless charging pads on top for phones. No floor boxes, no rewiring.
- Nothing for the building team to staff, stock or manage. Every Power-as-a-Service (PaaS) deployment includes a two-year SmartCenter license, so property management can see checkouts, returns and station status across every floor from one place.
If almost half of occupiers will pay for a better building, the amenities have to hold up after lunch. See how it works on our Powering Spaces page and in our case studies, including JLL One Financial Center.
An industry perspective, not a partnership
This article is Omnicharge's commentary on published industry material. Omnicharge is not affiliated with, partnered with or endorsed by Cushman & Wakefield or CoreNet Global. The survey does not address power or charging; that reading is ours.
Quoted excerpts remain the property of their authors and are used with attribution. Photos on this page are Omnicharge's own.
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