Your office is much more than a space for work. The interior your employees walk into every morning is the foundation for promoting efficiency and employee happiness.
You can hire a fancy office interior design company, pore over images of today’s trendiest offices, and dismantle every cubicle in site, but unless you have real insight into the way your office’s spaces are used, your efforts to create the spaces your employees actually need is just a guess.
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Operations managers know—one of the biggest expenses associated with keeping a business running is the cost of office space.
And with the increasing mobility and flexibility of the workforce as well as rising rent prices, it’s getting harder yet more important than ever to understand and drive down the cost of utilization.
So without further ado, let’s delve right into the true cost of poor office space utilization as well as the key metrics to track to boost utilization and improve the ROI of office space.
Today's companies must think beyond just competitive salaries and generous benefits packages to attract top talent. The modern office environment has become the de facto face of the companies that workers are competing to enter. But businesses need more than modern furniture, open concepts, and cappuccino-slinging baristas to ensure the face of the modern company isn't just a facade.
Meetings are taking place at your company every single day. Teleconferences, small group huddles, large brainstorming sessions, and formal meetings all require very different spaces and tools, and each carry great importance to the overall strategy and productivity of your business. To cater to each, your modern workplace might have various types and sizes of rooms with a number of technology options within, such as video conference tools, whiteboards, and projectors.
Wouldn’t it be great if you had insight, whenever and wherever you needed it, into how those spaces are used, by whom, and for how long? Or what about an understanding of the things your employees want to do, but can’t, because they can’t find the proper space to execute?
IoT: The buzzword of the decade.
After years of talk, the Internet of Things (IoT) is more pervasive than ever. It’s in our homes, our cars, and now our offices. And it’s going to continue to grow in ways we haven’t yet even imagined. You don’t have to look too far into the future to see the increasing prevalence of IoT throughout modern workplaces.
What does that mean for the modern office? How can data collected via IoT help employees improve productivity? Will it improve conveniences and employee satisfaction? How can we leverage IoT to get deeper insights into how the workplace is utilized?
Superhero. Police officer. Firefighter. Service member. Meeting room hero? If you're reading this blog post, your childhood dreams of heroism aren't as far off as you might think. Here are our three steps to becoming the hero of meetings by eliminating tediousness and boosting productivity for all.
Today more and more companies compete for new employees, not only on salaries or benefits but in the work environment too, to make the employees shine giving them the ability to perform their A-game.
In this infographic, we give you an easy way to improve work environment and help your employees stay productive - even improve convenience and their happiness too.
An Activity-based workplace is an ever-changing environment. New and alternate approaches to workplaces are continually emerging. The latest growing trend is called Activity Based Working (ABW).
Activity Based Working aims to boost collaboration, productivity, and flexibility while reducing costs. It's a workplace strategy that provides people with a choice of settings for a variety of workplace activities. Rather than forcing individuals to undertake all their work at one setting, ABW allows people to physically locate themselves where it is most suitable for them to complete their job.
You meet to share ideas, make some progress, gain some results, move forward, collaborate, learn, improve, grow. This is a reason that people end up in a ton of meetings every week in a professional context. It's simply the way modern organizations work these days. Therefore, meetings are an integral part of business life. Your workforce’s meetings are at the heart of your organization. They are where employees get together to collaborate and ultimately drive your company forward, possibly making them one of the most important aspects of your office environment.
