Following closely the media during the past days and weeks, you will certainly have found out that a lot of corporations are very busy analyzing their future workplace conceptions. Short term, respecting the 1,5 meter (respectively 6 feet) rule is paramount to ensure a soft opening of buildings in the first place. However, if we disregard these short-term topics, a general re-thinking process concerning office environments will emerge. First US American tech giants allow their staff to permanently work in home offices. Admitting that this case might be a bit extreme, the demand for flexible working environments will continue to grow also in other industry segments. A very recent poll conducted by Haufe found, that flexibility measures such as home office will increase in importance for 39% of the participants.
Thus, the time has come to face this challenge and think about how to manage work-place environments in future. Another trend irrefutably linked to the home office topic wants a deeper analysis as well, it is the desk sharing concept. Even when working primarily from home, physical presence in the office is indispensable now and then, and office space needs to be available also for those colleagues.
Should you still feel a little uncertain about how to precisely tackle these topics though, we have created adequate functionality in speedikon® C as of today to be able to efficiently support you on this future field as well. In this context, we have introduced a new workplace type called “home office” that can be attributed to the respective employee- temporarily or on permanence. The specific benefit of this object type is that all relevant information is easily traceable and thoroughly documented at this particular workplace- ranging from office equipment to complying with existing workplace regulations up to address data. In addition to that, devices and further technical or infrastructural equipment used by the employee, can be seamlessly documented.
For those cases when employees need to be in the office personally, we have developed a suitable app that allows quick and easy workplace reservation. Employees only need to insert the period of time and eventually the location, and the app will show all free workspaces for this given period. The requested workplace is now just one click way. As a matter of fact, you can manage all your individual reservations in the app, and if necessary already existing ones may be cancelled.
Bearing in mind that the look and feel of is very important when dealing with workplaces, we will add a particular highlight by integrating FRAMENCE functionality into the new app. Thanks to the integration of panoramas and detail pictures, the employee has got the privilege to have a close look on the workplace before actual reservation, and can then choose the nicest one. Also in this context, a large variety of graphical reports and analyses is in planning stage. You will find further information regarding the FRAMENCE integration shortly on this blog.