Providing a healthy workplace is not a new concept for the real estate community, however, the events of 2020 significantly shifted priorities for the current generation of office workers in their definition of a “safe workplace”. The pandemic resulted in a surge of interest and demands regarding workplace safety and wellness largely from the end users of building technology. As real estate professionals assess various paths forward to meet the new requirements of their customers, they are quickly identifying several sources for enabling success: Data Access - Easily ingested performance metrics to gauge all aspects of space and its usage Identity Accuracy – Quickly recognizing individual occupants as opposed to cards or credentials Presence History – Accounting of who is where within each space at any given point in time These requisite essentials move the operation of physical access control to the center of the effort to establish and maintain the goal of wellness in the workplace. Additionally, this is a real estate evolution that has been accelerated by the pandemic, not created by it. The push for sustainability in the built environment has embraced the objective of global wellness for decades. The more recent emphasis on office health and wellness in reaction to the pandemic will converge with the broader sustainability imperative and access control will solidify as a bedrock component of the effort.