THE 2027 CFO GUIDE TO WORKSPACE SPEND · FOR FINANCE LEADERS

Visibility isn't governance.

Distributed workspace spend hides across a dozen budget lines — memberships, stipends, reimbursements. This free 16-page guide shows finance leaders how to find the whole number, price the hours your team actually uses, and turn scattered spend into a governed, forecastable line item — before 2027 budgets are locked.

Built on 4M+ hours of workspace data. Trusted by 5,000+ organizations across 700+ cities.

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THE STAKES

The line item you can't forecast is the risk you already own.

Distributed work turned workspace from one lease into a dozen scattered costs: memberships here, stipends there, reimbursements everywhere, each hiding in a different budget line. Headcount moves, teams distribute, and the fixed assumptions under the budget stop being true. The result is a number no one can state, a forecast no one defends, and renewals signed on instinct. In budget season, that is the difference between presenting a model and presenting an apology.

WHAT YOU'LL TAKE AWAY

A financial model, not a memo.

Know which model you're running.

The six ways companies buy workspace in 2026, and where each one breaks financially: linear stipend scaling, shadow reimbursement spend, ghost-space leases.

Find the whole number.

A worksheet for pulling workspace costs out of every budget line they hide in, so Finance sees one figure instead of twelve fragments.

The metric that replaces cost per square foot.

What you actually pay for the workspace hours your team actually uses, and how to calculate it from data you already have.

From reconciliation to planning.

Move the workspace line from backward-looking reconciliation to forward-looking planning: usage-based modeling, policy caps, and the governance that makes the number hold.

5,000+ organizations · 700+ cities · 4M+ hours of workspace data

The hidden admin bill

$41,000+

The annual hidden admin cost of processing just 50 workspace expense reports a month. Opaque spend is expensive spend.
The savings case

up to 40%

Usage-based workspace models cut direct spend by up to 40% versus fixed commitments and unmanaged stipends.
Flex is growing

37%

Of companies plan to increase their use of flexible or coworking space over the next three years. The variable line is getting bigger, not smaller.
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It provides visibility, administrative control, and responsive support without adding operational complexity.

— Ali Hayawi, Head of Workplace, Profit Metrics

WHO IT'S FOR

Written for the finance team.

For CFOs, FP&A leads, and finance ops building the 2027 plan, and for anyone who has to stand behind the workspace number in a board deck or a budget review. If you inherited a scattered workspace spend and need to make it forecastable, this is your starting point.

The model gets built now. Budgets close in Q3.

Walk into 2027 planning with a defensible number, not a placeholder. Get the guide free and build the model this quarter.

Workspace is no longer a perk. It's infrastructure.