What Leesman does

Leesman, founded in 2010 and headquartered in London, operates the world's largest independent workplace experience benchmark, collecting anonymized employee survey responses to generate the standardized Leesman Index (Lmi) score. Its core products are Leesman Office (in-office workplace assessment), Leesman Home (remote/hybrid assessment), and the Leesman+ certification program, which recognizes workplaces scoring 70 or above on the Lmi. As of March 31, 2026, the benchmark encompassed 1,596,529 employee responses across 10,597 workplaces in 124 countries, including a curated set of named enterprise and government clients such as Boston Consulting Group, Standard Chartered, UK Government Property Agency, BHP, AstraZeneca, Google, and Volvo.

The underlying technology is a survey-based assessment platform compliant with WCAG 2.2 accessibility guidelines that aggregates standardized responses into comparable Lmi scores and supports the Leesman+ certification program. The methodology is buttressed by The Hybrid Future, a three-year longitudinal research collaboration with MIT's Center for Real Estate, generating proprietary thought-leadership content on hybrid working.

Leesman sells directly to enterprise and public-sector organizations through a consultative field-sales model, charging on a quote-based engagement for commissioned Workplace Experience Assessments rather than via transparent pricing. Revenue is essentially recurring/subscription-like, tied to repeat assessments across client portfolios and benchmarking subscriptions. Leesman Ltd is a privately held UK subsidiary of US/UK-based workplace experience platform HqO Inc., operating under Founder & CEO Tim Oldman alongside a small leadership team including a Chief Insights & Research Officer, CTO, Client Services Director, and development and MDs.

Name

Leesman

Legal name

Leesman Ltd

Website

https://leesmanindex.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2010

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Leesman operates the world's largest workplace experience benchmark, providing survey-based assessments and a standardized Leesman Index (Lmi) score to enterprises and governments globally. It serves corporate real estate, HR, and facilities leaders across 124 countries.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Workplace Experience Analytics

NAICS

Human Resources Consulting Services (541612)

SIC

Services-Management Consulting Services (8742), Services-Management Services (8741)

akta.pro primary industry

Workplace/Occupancy Data, Utilization & IWMS Administration (BPABAFAF)

Keywords

• Workplace experience analytics
• Employee experience benchmarking
• Workplace assessment platform
• Hybrid work research
• Occupancy benchmarking

Headquarters

HQ city

London

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Operations, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Workplace Experience Assessment Services: Leesman provides organizations with survey-based workplace experience assessments. Organizations commission these assessments to measure employee satisfaction with their workplace environment, receiving benchmarking data against the global Leesman database.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

Leesman provides a workplace experience assessment and benchmarking platform that enables organizations to measure how effectively their workplaces support employees. The company delivers survey-based analytics through products such as the Leesman Index (Lmi), Leesman Office, and Leesman Home, supported by what it describes as the world's largest workplace experience database. It also offers the Leesman+ Certification program and The Hybrid Future research subscription.

Product overview

Leesman offers a unified workplace experience measurement platform centered on its Leesman Index benchmark—the world's largest database of workplace experience data with over 1.5 million employee responses across 10,000+ workplaces in 124 countries. The core offering comprises Leesman Office (for workplace assessments) and Leesman Home (for home working assessments), which generate comparable Lmi scores that organizations use to benchmark their spaces against global data. Leesman+ is a certification program recognizing workplaces achieving Lmi scores of 70+ (Excellent) or 80+ (Outstanding). The company also conducts proprietary research through The Hybrid Future initiative in partnership with MIT.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• The Hybrid Future (THF): A three-year longitudinal research project investigating the impact of hybrid working on people, places and society, conducted in collaboration with MIT's Center for Real Estate.
• Leesman+
• Leesman Office
• Leesman Home

Quantifiable outcome

• Workplaces scoring 80+ on the Leesman Index achieve 'Outstanding' Leesman+ certification
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers8 records

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature3 records

Partnerships

Two partnerships are on record, tiered flagship and core.

• MIT Center for Real EstateflagshipStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 April 2022Three-year research collaboration (2022-2025) on The Hybrid Future study, investigating the impact of hybrid working on people, places, and society. Leesman provides workplace experience data while MIT provides academic rigor and research methodology. The study involves 10,000+ participants across 8 campaigns over 3 years.
• HqO Inc.coreOthersHqO Inc. is Leesman's parent company, having acquired Leesman. Located in UK and US. Leesman operates as a subsidiary under HqO's portfolio of workplace experience companies.

Scale indicators5 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Gallup: Gallup runs one of the world's largest employee engagement and workplace survey benchmarks (Q12, State of the Workplace), serving enterprise HR leaders with comparable benchmarking data. Direct conceptual overlap with Leesman's employee-experience benchmarking and certification-led positioning.
• Great Place to Work: Great Place to Work administers employee survey instruments and awards workplace certification across 60+ countries — a direct competitor model to Leesman Office/Leesman+ for certification-driven, employee-survey-based benchmarking.
• Steelcase 360 (Workplace Research): Steelcase publishes the long-running Workplace Survey and global workplace research, used by enterprise occupiers to inform workplace strategy. Closely comparable as a survey-led, benchmark-distributed workplace research house.
• Haworth (Workplace Research): Haworth, like Steelcase, publishes global workplace research and benchmarks used by enterprise occupiers. Direct competitor on workplace research and advisory content for office-based clients.

Broad incumbents

• Gensler: Gensler is a global design and workplace strategy firm that conducts proprietary workplace research (Workplace Survey, City Pulse) for enterprise occupiers. Overlaps with Leesman on evidence-based workplace experience measurement, though as part of a much larger design practice.
• JLL (Corporate Solutions / Work Dynamics): JLL's Work Dynamics practice offers workplace experience advisory and technology to corporate occupiers globally. Competes with Leesman for enterprise workplace-strategy budgets, but as part of a much larger CRE services portfolio.
• Cushman & Wakefield (Workplace Advisory): Cushman & Wakefield's Workplace Insights team advises enterprise occupiers on workplace strategy and experience. Comparable buyer audience (corporate real estate leaders) and adjacent advisory capability.
• CBRE (Workplace Advisory): CBRE's Workplace practice advises large enterprise occupiers on portfolio and experience strategy. Comparable buyer and topic overlap, though within a broad commercial real estate platform.

Emerging players

• Mercer (Employee Engagement/IPay): Mercer offers employee listening and engagement analytics used by global HR leaders. Partial overlap with Leesman's workplace-experience measurement, but as part of a broader HR/benefits consulting portfolio.
• Eptura: Eptura (formerly iOFFICE + SpaceIQ + others) is a workplace experience and operations software platform. Competitively adjacent: enterprise occupiers increasingly combine workplace experience data with utilisation/operational software, positioning Eptura as a partial substitute or integrator alongside Leesman.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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• Xx.com/leesman_index

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles12 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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