# APAC office attendance reaches new equilibrium as AI adoption accelerates

- **Source:** Real Estate Asia
- **Published:** 2026-09-22T04:00:00.000Z
- **Author:** Staff Reporter
- **Original:** https://realestateasia.com/commercial-office/news/apac-office-attendance-reaches-new-equilibrium-ai-adoption-accelerates
- **Topics:** Commercial & Industrial, Regional Markets

## Featured rationale

Stabilised attendance may support office utilisation and workplace investment, although widespread AI adoption has not yet produced a clear change in occupiers’ space requirements.

## AI summary

A CBRE survey found 88% of APAC firms have employees in the office at least three days weekly, the highest level since COVID-19.

## Original article

Nearly 90% of APAC firms said employees work in the office at least three days a week.

Office attendance across Asia Pacific has reached a new post-pandemic equilibrium, with companies increasingly shifting their focus from getting employees back to the workplace towards improving office experience and operational efficiency, according to CBRE's 2026 Asia Pacific Office Occupier Survey.

Nearly nine in 10 respondents, or 88 per cent, said employees work in the office at least three days a week, the highest level recorded since the COVID-19 pandemic. A further 85 per cent believe office attendance has reached a steady state.

Tom Gaffney, Head of Leasing, Asia Pacific at CBRE, said the workplace conversation has shifted as attendance and utilisation have stabilised at higher levels. Companies can now focus on transforming their workplaces to improve employee experience and efficiency, he said.

AI adoption within corporate real estate operations has also accelerated. Some 46 per cent of respondents described themselves as AI adopters or active movers in applying AI to corporate real estate, up sharply from 9 per cent in 2024.

CBRE said AI is currently being used primarily to improve operational efficiency, decision-making and workplace management. Its effect on office demand, however, remains uncertain.

More than half of occupiers surveyed said AI has had no impact on their real estate requirements, or that it is still too early to determine its effect on workforce size or office footprints.

The findings suggest that, despite rapid adoption of AI within corporate real estate functions, its near-term implications for office demand remain limited, CBRE said.

## Chinese translation

> Translation model: grok_cli

### 亚太区办公室出勤率在人工智能采用加速之际达到新均衡

亚太地区的办公室出勤率已达到疫情后的新均衡，企业正日益将关注重点从让员工返回

近90%的亚太区企业表示，员工每周至少有三天在办公室工作。

根据世邦魏理仕（CBRE）的《2026年亚太区办公室租户调查》（2026 Asia Pacific Office Occupier Survey），亚太地区的办公室出勤率已达到疫情后的新均衡，企业正日益将重点从让员工回到工作场所，转向改善办公室体验和运营效率。

近十分之九的受访者，即88%，表示员工每周至少有三天在办公室工作，这是自新冠疫情（COVID-19）以来录得的最高水平。另有85%认为，办公室出勤已达到稳定状态。

世邦魏理仕亚太区租赁业务主管Tom Gaffney表示，随着出勤率和空间使用率在更高水平上趋于稳定，关于工作场所的讨论已经转变。他说，企业现在可以专注于改造工作场所，以改善员工体验和效率。

企业房地产运营中的人工智能采用也已加速。约46%的受访者称自己是将人工智能应用于企业房地产的采用者或积极行动者，较2024年的9%大幅上升。

世邦魏理仕表示，人工智能目前主要用于提高运营效率、决策和工作场所管理。然而，它对办公室需求的影响仍不确定。

超过一半的受访租户表示，人工智能对其房地产需求没有产生影响，或者现在判断它对员工规模或办公面积的影响仍为时过早。

这些发现表明，尽管企业房地产职能内部对人工智能的采用十分迅速，但其对办公室需求的近期影响仍然有限，世邦魏理仕称。