Research Policy
Leesman is fundamentally a research proposition. Our aim is to provide a rich and robust source of information for all our users and create a database that will become a valuable platform for further research. As our collection of comparative data grows, we aim to develop a resounding reputation for delivering relevant, timely, and visionary research on how people are working in the spaces provided for them.
We have drawn on both research and statistical expertise to guide the design of our methodologies and we rigorously apply these disciplines to maintain the integrity of that data. We continually reinvest in the development of our tools and seek out new approaches that may benefit our clients - an example is our current work exploring the opportunity to develop a social network analysis module within the Leesman toolkit.
At times we may invite participation from selected academic institutions to assist us with research and to maximise the value of this uniquely unified and independent source of data. But we will at all times remain neutral, independent and dispassionate. Our services remain non-aligned and unbiased and we will never enter into any affiliations or agreements with other organisations that could compromise the integrity of our work, prejudice our impartiality in any way or compromise the confidentiality of the clients organisations whose information we hold.
Research and Funding Partners
Our independence remains as fundamental to us as the confidentiality and anonymity of our clients and survey respondents. Our services remain non-aligned and unbiased and bound by our Business Confidentiality Commitment.
Very occasionally and where appropriate we will partner with organisations whose funding or sponsorship allows us to explore new avenues of research where it is proven that there is no conflict of interest with our aims and objectives, but at no time will they have sight or access to confidential data or client survey information. Our Advisory Board has final veto over any research or funding partnership opportunities offered to us.
Our partners are listed here for complete transparency. For further details of the organisations listed and our relationship with them, click on their logo.
Research Papers
The Leesman Review
The Leesman Review is our regular printed journal that reports on what we are doing, where we are going and most importantly, trends that we might be uncovering.
The Post-recessional Workplace
We have conducted a review of business opinion on the effects of a potential economic recovery on the strategic importance of workplace for the British Institute of Facility Management.
Confidentiality & Privacy
Maintaining the confidentiality and anonymity of our clients and their staff who respond to our surveys is fundamental to our working practices and unless otherwise stated, you should assume that we treat all information provided to us as highly confidential.
All personal identification connecting an individual record to an individual employee is removed and the submission completely anonymised as soon as we close the survey. The email address given by a respondent is only held for the duration of that survey to allow them to save a partial completion and return to it later, and to detect multiple submissions. Thereafter we keep no record of those email addresses and do not use them for any other purpose.
Clients can apply filters to their data based on information provided by employees such as department, age range or time with company. However in order to protect the anonymity of respondents, the data set will not be shown if the sample size drops below five individuals.
All individual responses will be retained as anonymous data and aggregated to form part of the full Leesman database, to enable project comparisons and benchmarking. At no point will this aggregated data link a single response or survey results to an individual within a client organisation. As with comparisons based on employee demographics, project comparisons such as industry sector, location or building type will only be enabled once the cluster size is sufficient to guarantee anonymity of client information.
