Map Where Your Employees Live to Site Your Next Office

Upload your employee list from Excel, CSV, or a Google Sheet with a home address column, and Maptive geocodes each row, correcting messy addresses and filling in missing ZIP codes. Open the Heat Mapping Tool in Map Tools, pick Marker Density, and click Add Heat Map. The map paints a smooth gradient over the home addresses, so the areas where staff concentrate read as hot spots. You can adjust the radius and intensity, or turn on Hide Map Markers to show the density on its own. No GIS skills or code are needed.

Draw a Drive Time Polygon around each candidate office address, set the commute you care about, and click each polygon to read how many employees fall inside. Open Customize Metrics and add a Group Count of your staff column for the exact figure. The candidate with the most employees inside its drive-time gives the whole team the shortest average commute. Comparing those counts side by side turns a relocation debate into a number you can defend to the lease committee and to leadership.

Yes. Open the Drive Time Polygon Tool, enter the site address, set the time to 30 minutes, and add the polygon. Click it and the right panel reports the number of employee locations inside, and Customize Metrics adds a Group Count for a precise total. You can set any commute length, from 15 minutes to an hour, and draw a fresh polygon for each candidate address. Because every polygon reads from the same roster, the counts stay comparable across the sites you are weighing.

No. Drive Time Polygons are based on perfect driving conditions, not live or historical traffic data. That makes each commute footprint a fair, repeatable comparison between candidate sites rather than a rush-hour prediction that changes by the hour. When you draw a 30-minute polygon around two addresses, both are measured the same way, so the difference in employee counts comes from distance and the road network alone. Use the drive-time as an even baseline, and pair it with a mileage radius when you want a simpler distance cut.

Draw a Drive Time Polygon around each address using the same commute length, then click each one and read the employee count from the panel or from a Group Count in Customize Metrics. Both polygons are on the same map over the same heat map of home addresses, so you can see which site is closer to the dense clusters and which count comes out higher. Add a third or fourth candidate the same way. The site with the most employees inside its commute is your lowest-commute option in plain numbers.

Yes. The Lasso Tool lets you draw a free-form shape around any cluster of employee homes, and Maptive reads back the count of markers you selected. This is handy when you want to size one neighborhood or corridor rather than a full commute ring, or to check how many people live near a specific site before you draw a formal drive-time. You can lasso a downtown core, a suburb, or a stretch along one highway, and the selected total updates as you adjust the shape.

Maptive geocodes your list on upload, correcting inconsistent formatting and filling in missing ZIP codes so more of your roster lands on the map. You can paste addresses or bring them from Excel, CSV, or a Google Sheet, and you do not need to clean the file by hand first. Rows that need attention are flagged for review. Once the homes are placed, the heat map, drive-time counts, and radius all read from the same corrected set of locations, which keeps every siting number consistent.

Yes. Open the Distance Radius Circles tool, center a ring on a candidate office, and set Proximity Within to a mileage figure such as 15 miles, then add the radius. Click the ring and run Customize Metrics to read how many employees fall inside it. A radius measures straight-line distance from the site, which gives a simpler cut than a road-based drive-time. Many teams draw both, using the mileage ring for a quick screen and the drive-time polygon for the commute number that goes in the siting case.

Maptive plots up to 200,000 markers on a single map, so even a large workforce spread across a metro or several regions fits on one view. The heat map summarizes all of those homes as a density gradient, and each drive-time or radius counts the employees inside for you. Panning and zooming stay responsive at that scale, so you can map every employee rather than a sample when the siting decision has to hold up.

Maptive protects data with 256-bit SSL encryption, two-factor authentication, single sign-on, and role-based access, so you control who on the team can open the workforce map. Home addresses stay inside your account, and you decide when to share a map through a password-protected link, a public link, or a one-line embed. For a siting review, you can share a read-only view of the commute comparison without handing over the underlying roster. The US and Canada support team can help you set up access controls if you need them.