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Q1 2026 | Quarterly Newsletter

January 15, 2026

Happy New Year! Things are heating up at FlexDesk, even amidst the wintertime weather. Read on below for product updates and resources to stay updated on the corporate real estate market.

Cheers,

Team FlexDesk

Product Updates

Portfolio Management

Track lease information, anticipate rent escalations, and never miss a renewal date.

✨ Denominators over Time: Admins now have the ability to capture an extended set of figures over time for portfolio analysis, including capacity, headcount, and more.

📝 Document Pop-Up: Admins now have one-click access to view lease documents in-app without opening a new tab.

⚒️ UI enhancements: Admins now have upgraded visualization aesthetics, including headcount breakouts by region/country and standard formats for prices and dates.

Utilization Intelligence

Leverage existing badge access systems to automatically track attendance, RTO compliance, and make smarter renewal decisions.

🔥 Individual-Level Annotations: Admins now have the ability to contextualize attendance patterns and modify show-up rates for individual employees.

🖇️ Primary and Secondary Departments: Admins now have the ability to enrich and analyze attendance behaviors with multiple department fields.

💥 Dashboard enhancements: Admins now have access to expanded reporting functionality, including a user search bar, export capabilities, additional field dropdowns, and more.

Coworking Management

Provide employees with drop-in access to thousands of coworking locations within one booking interface. Maintain spend controls and consolidated billing.

🌐 Third-party coworking data: Admins now have the ability to ingest on-demand coworking data from third-party sources and leverage off-the-shelf reporting capabilities.

💳 Billing Chargebacks: Admins now have the ability to assign different cost centers to bookings for billing breakouts.

🚀 Power Users: Admins now have pre-built charts for highest-use individuals based on booking count, cost, and more.

What We Are Reading And Writing

  • CRE Trends to Watch: Read JLL’s piece on the five trends that will define success for Corporate Real Estate teams in 2026.
  • How Digital Transformation Enables AI readiness: Read JLL’s study on how enterprise adoption of AI replaces fragmented workflows with standardized data ecosystems.
  • CRE/W Role Openings: The job market for corporate real estate & workplace continues to show promise. Check out a list of open roles here.

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