Work Stack
Block and Stack Planning Tool
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Dumas House, Perth, WA
Conceptual Block and Stack Visual for Dumas House, Perth, WA
Planning an Office Restack?
Work Stack is a Block & Stack workplace planning tool for fast, visual scenario planning, perfect when doing an office restack. Work out the most efficient team locations, test growth and relocation options quickly, and produce outputs that are clear enough for executive decisions.
Build your initial stack in minutes, then edit as much or as little as you need: teams, divisions, floors, neighbourhoods/zones, colours, and planning assumptions. Model traditional 1:1 seating or desk sharing, using headcount or FTE with guidelines to help avoid breaches.
Apply collocation rules for teams that must sit together, move teams around instantly, and copy your stack straight into PowerPoint for impactful presentations. Add financials if you want the stack to tell the full story to support your restack planning.
Work Stack can also automatically generate best-fit layouts across your workplace; including consolidating scattered spare desk capacity into usable blocks, so you can prove whether you need more space or can absorb growth efficiently.
No bundled suite. No distractions. Work Stack is 100% Block & Stack.
Prices and Planning
Enterprise-level workplace planning, without enterprise software pricing.
Work Stack is built for organisations that need serious workplace planning capability, without the cost, delay and complexity of enterprise software.
Pay per user, not by company size, headcount or number of buildings. No long and costly onboarding process. Download and start now. Pay monthly or yearly. No lock-in contract. Cancel anytime.
What Sets Work Stack Apart
Work Stack was created for organisations that are big enough to have complex workplace planning problems, but do not need the cost, delay or scale of an enterprise workplace-management platform.
Many larger workplace platforms bundle block-and-stack planning with broader tools such as desk booking, sensors, visitor management and facilities-management functionality. That may suit large enterprise portfolios, but it can be hard to justify when the immediate need is practical workplace planning, scenario testing and restack decision-making.
Work Stack focuses on that gap. It gives workplace, property and facilities teams access to serious block-and-stack planning capability in a tool that is easier to adopt, easier to approve and faster to start using.
The tool was designed and built by Peter Stansfield, drawing on more than 15 years of workplace strategy, accommodation planning and corporate property experience. Work Stack was not designed from the software side looking in. It was built from direct experience of workplace planning itself, distilling the logic, decisions and practical detail of real restack work into a tool that feels intuitive to workplace, property and facilities teams.
Work Stack was built in Excel deliberately. It uses a tool workplace planners already understand, avoids long implementation timelines, and can be downloaded and used without a major software rollout.
Start with Work Stack Free. Upgrade when the planning gets serious.
Build your first stack, test the workflow and see how Work Stack changes the way you approach workplace planning. When you need more control, automation and scenario planning capability, move to Space Planner or Workplace Strategist.
Frequently asked questions
How long does a Block and Stack exercise take?
Simply, if you have collected the data you need upfront (building data split by floors, number of desks available, divisions, teams, people metrics, team locations on the floor), then a Block and Stack can be built in minutes. Something that would take hours doing manually. Once you start running scenario testing, you get results in seconds that could have taken a team weeks to develop manually. Plus, the data is accurate. The days of human error causing the spreadsheet headcount to drift away from reality and only finding out after the plan has been approved, are gone.
What is the difference between a Block and Stack and a test fit?
A Block and Stack is a planning exercise. It tells you which teams sit on which floors, in which neighbourhood zones, and how many desks they need. It works at the level of teams and floor capacities, not actual furniture. A test fit is part of early design thinking. It takes a specific floor and tests, on a real floorplate, where the desks, meeting rooms, breakout spaces, and amenities physically go. The Block and Stack tells you that Finance needs 96 desks on Level 1. The test fit tells you exactly where those 96 desks sit on Level 1.
Do you need software to do a Block and Stack?
No, but you will struggle without it. Spreadsheets, PowerPoint, and AI can produce the initial Block and Stack, but they make iteration painful, scenario comparison slow, and constraint management manual. Purpose-built tools turn it into minutes and hours, not weeks.
Is Block and Stack planning the same as space planning?
No. Space planning is the broader discipline that includes Block and Stack as one stage, and test fits as another. Block and Stack is the bridge between strategy and detailed design.
Can Block and Stack planning be done across multiple buildings?
Yes, this is portfolio-level Block and Stack, where teams move not just between floors but between buildings.