When you cannot be around a phone 24/7, but you also don't want to miss an important call from a client, how can you find a happy medium? No customer wants to hear a machine pick up their call and ask them to leave a message.

In office space, absorption measures the net change in occupied office space over a specific period. It tracks how much space tenants lease compared to how much becomes vacant, indicating market demand. Positive absorption means more space is leased than vacated, while negative absorption shows the opposite.