Solving your property, people and space challenges
For businesses facing change, our workplace strategy process builds the evidence base to unlock the clarity and conviction needed to drive decisions that solve today’s and anticipate tomorrow’s workplace challenges, before investing time in tenant advisory, market testing and design.
Great workplaces don’t happen by accident. They happen when leadership is aligned, people are heard, and every decision is grounded in evidence, no assumption. That’s what we are here to deliver.
1. Sense
Understand how your people use space today and anticipate tomorrow’s needs.
2. Shape
Translate insights into a clear workplace strategy and spatial concepts that align with your business priorities.
3. Steer
Guide decisions with confidence through governance and strategic guardrails, ensuring property and design choices deliver on your objectives.
Our Workplace Strategy Team can help you:
Clarify stay or go scenarios
Assess the potential of your existing space across a single site or an entire national portfolio alongside new opportunities, using objective criteria rather than assumptions so your leadership can move forward with confidence.
Align leaders around a shared vision with facts
Use data, benchmarking and modelling to unite and align internal stakeholders around the purpose of your workplace/s and what it needs to do for your people and your culture.
Strengthen culture and connection
Identify the spatial and organisational conditions that enable and build team cohesion, increase office attendance, and create an environment people genuinely want to work in.
Evaluate commercial and functional fit
Compare shortlisted buildings against defined needs, from design potential and buildability to cost, compliance, and landlord conditions.
Reduce risk before committing
Our due diligence identifies cost drivers, constraints, and key trade-offs before any lease or design decisions are made.
What could your workplace strategy involve?
Our strategic advice reduces risk, accelerates decision making, and maximises return on the investment in your people and your workplace. Every square metre matters. We help make sure yours works for you.
- Spatial utilisation and occupancy studies to right-size your footprint
- Persona modelling and user-experience journey mapping
- Stay vs. Go modelling and analysis
- Leadership alignment and visioning development
- Strategic change management and internal communication programs
- Portfolio and asset consolidation and commercial analysis
- Early assessment of sustainability, adaptive re-use, and buildability
- Preliminary project scoping and budgeting to mitigate risks from day one
- Property and portfolio due diligence
The PMG Difference
Clarity Before Commitment
PMG defines workplace strategy before a single commitment is made. Governance expectations, investment rationale, and people outcomes are aligned from day one.
Cost & Value Certainty
We align strategy with commercial, culture and people priorities to ensure responsible use of budget management and transparent visibility.
Decision-Ready Outcomes
Evidence-based recommendations, defined tradeoffs, prepared for Executive and Board consideration. Not one that requires translation or 200 pages to justify inflated fees.
Structured & Client Aligned
Clear milestones. Transparent checkpoints. Stakeholder alignment engineered into the process from the start, so a well-supported recommendation emerges at every stage.
A portfolio that speaks for itself
With over 30 years of experience and 1,200 projects delivered, our workplace strategies have guided organisations through consolidations, relocations, and large-scale transformations across every major sector. We understand the commercial pressures, the workforce expectations, and the property market conditions that shape each decision. Every recommendation we make is grounded in data, tested against your business objectives, and built to give your project a foundation it can deliver from.
Gallagher
- National Client
Holcim
- National Client
Confidential Energy Company
Get the guide to workplace strategy
Our Workplace Strategy Guide walks through the decisions, data, and frameworks behind high-performing workplaces. Download it to see how organisations like yours approach the process.
What Our Clients Say
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David Stanton
National Property Manager | AJ Gallagher
PMG appreciated our leadership styles and NFP mission to effectively work with our ELT through a portfolio assessment and consolidation, a realignment of our workplaces to create connection, reflect our mission and brand, and provide fit-for-purpose working environments. Translating the strategy into property shortlisting support tools and advice was seamless and allowed for quick locational decision making. PMG took the time to understand our mission and how we lead to create a genuinely collaborative experience. Data-led modelling helped to work through a complex portfolio consolidation with our ELT. The tools to support property shortlisting meant we could make location decisions quickly and with confidence.
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Sandra Long
Chief Financial Officer | Anglicare Southern QLD
PMG allowed the time they needed to deeply explore and understand our national business, the nuances in regions and states without overwhelming our Leadership team with exhaustive workshops. They were able to inform Executives with modelling and scenario assessments to enable them to make critical property decisions that achieved global mandated savings with people & culture in mind.
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Kayeleen Garner
EA to Chief Executive Officer | Jellinbah Group
I would highly recommend PMG, and have, to anyone looking to do an office fitout. The guidance and knowledge provided throughout the project was second to none. I have also been impressed with the post project assistance – everything PMG promised, they have delivered and more. Thank you PMG, we loved your ideas & energy, our new workspace is incredible.
Talk to a workplace strategist
Whether you are a landlord looking to reposition an asset or a business seeking a high-performance workspace, we invite you to start a conversation. Our national team across Brisbane, Melbourne, and Sydney leverages 30 years of collective experience to provide total commercial certainty from day one. Let us show you how our integrated methodology removes project risk and aligns your environment directly with your strategic goals.
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FAQs
What is workplace strategy?
Workplace strategy is the deliberate alignment of an organisation’s physical office space, technology, and culture with its business goals to improve performance, employee experience, and cost efficiency.
What are the key components of an effective strategy?
A robust workplace strategy addresses three interconnected layers:
- Physical Space: Designing layouts that support both individual focus work and collaboration, moving away from 100% assigned seating to activity-based working.
- Technology: Implementing tools including room booking systems, video conferencing technology, and visitor management platforms that facilitate a seamless hybrid experience.
- Behaviour and Culture: Establishing policies and norms that promote collaboration, trust, and connection among employees, regardless of where they work.
Why does workplace strategy support financial and facilities outcomes?
Three outcomes drive the business case:
- Optimised Costs: Reduces overhead by right-sizing the property portfolio to match actual usage.
- Talent Attraction and Retention: Creates a destination office that employees choose to work from, boosting morale and reducing attrition.
- Increased Productivity: Provides a variety of spaces that allow employees to perform tasks at their highest level.
How does workplace strategy support hybrid and flexible work models?
Workplace strategy helps you understand how people work, in office, remote, or in between, and builds an environment that supports those behaviours. It optimises the office for moments that matter: collaboration, connection, and culture. The result is a workplace that enhances flexibility rather than competing with it.
What should workplace strategy give you answers to?
- Is your leadership aligned on the purpose of your workplace/s?
- Is your workplace/s enabling this purpose?
- How much space do you really need, and why?
- Is your hybrid model working for the business, or just for convenience?
- Do you have the clarity and confidence to make your next lease decision?
- Is your workplace creating the culture and connection your people need?
What business outcomes can workplace strategy deliver?
- Space efficiency
- Improved Culture
- Team Connection
- Consolidation
- Agile Working
- Sustainability
- Savings
- Talent Retention & Attraction
- Increased Office Attendance
- Workplace Wellness
- Drive Innovation
- Fit For Purpose
Which workplace strategy engagement is right for your situation?
Purpose
When to Use
Key Outcomes
Indicative Duration
Workplace Property Strategy
For major property decisions
12-36 months before lease
expiry depending on portfolio/
tenancy size and number of
staff.
Comprehensive strategy that
informs property decisions and
design brief
8–13 weeks
Workplace Design Strategy
After site selection
After building selection, before
or during early stages of design
phase.
Align leadership and inform
design process to avoid multiple
iterations and expensive refits
4–10 weeks
Strategy Essentials
For rapid clarity
At any point in your lease cycle
if your workplace/s are not
achieving outcomes.
2–3 weeks
Purpose
When to Use
Key Outcomes
Indicative Duration
Workplace Property Strategy
For major property decisions
12-36 months before lease
expiry depending on portfolio/
tenancy size and number of
staff.
Comprehensive strategy that
informs property decisions and
design brief
8–13 weeks
Workplace Design Strategy
After site selection
After building selection, before
or during early stages of design
phase.
Align leadership and inform
design process to avoid multiple
iterations and expensive refits
4–10 weeks
Strategy Essentials
For rapid clarity
At any point in your lease cycle
if your workplace/s are not
achieving outcomes.
2–3 weeks
