The most expensive real estate decision in your office isn't the lease. It's how you allocate square footage between individual desks and shared spaces. Most offices over-index on desks and under-index on collaboration — and then wonder why conference rooms are booked solid while desks sit empty three days a week.

The Desk-to-Collaboration Ratio Calculator is a guided digital tool. You input: headcount, current desk count, meeting room count, average daily occupancy (observed, not assumed), and collaboration complaint frequency. The tool calculates your current ratio, benchmarks it against GLSC’s data across 40+ years of workplace projects, identifies whether you’re over-desked or under-collab’d, and recommends a target ratio with an estimated square-footage reallocation plan.

Output: a 5-page PDF with your ratio analysis, benchmark comparison, and a preliminary space-rebalancing recommendation. This is the math that precedes the furniture order. No design degree needed. Just honest occupancy data.