This is interesting:
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"That could top five million square feet if Queen’s Park moves ahead with plans to reduce its real estate footprint by downsizing each civil servants’ work area from 250 square feet to 200, says a new report from TD Economics."
http://www.thestar.com/business/arti...-the-go-go-80s
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That's sounds really tight to me.
That 200sqft isn't just their cubical, it includes the per-employee portions of the hallways, kitchen, bathrooms, meeting spaces, space in walls/dividers, photo copy room, shelves, storage, janitors closet, and even the building lobby.
There are a lot of components of an employees space you simply cannot shrink due to building/fire code.
Quickest way I can think of is to go to shared desks/cubes for entry-level positions.
I wonder if you can cheat the number by having people work from home one or two days a week. Space per employee in the building doesn't change but space per employee working does.
Doing software development for SBC in downtown Toronto, we had a design capacity of about 400 sqft per employee but we didn't grow the employee count to that number so we actually had closer to 1200sqft per employee.