Smart office app with space booking
Supercharge your office experience with data driven workplace optimization.
What is a Smart Office?
Smart Office is a term that has been around for many year, generally describing technical solutions that help employees get better office experience through use of digital tools such as apps for easier meeting room booking.
Hybrid working has changed completely how offices are used - work overall being less focused at offices. This is why term Smart Office is perhaps outdated. Better term could be Hybrid Work Management - tools that helps deciding optimal work location and resources, regardless whether that location is office, home, co-working location or a coffee shop.
Building blocks of Smart Office solution for Hybrid Work
Successful Smart Office projects make using the office easier for employees and allow facility management to understand how well office spaces are utilized via workplace and occupancy analytics. Integrations with existing systems such as Microsoft Teams or Google Calendar can make the user experience smoother and increase the usage and attractiveness of the solution for employees.
Occupancy analytics
Hybrid work is multi-location by nature, which is why it is impossible to manage workplace through personal observations.
Support corporate culture
In self-driven hybrid work it is easy to skip important face to face time with colleagues. Corporate culture is build and maintained through social interactions.
Desk sharing
Assigned desks do not make sense for most employees in hybrid working model. Making it easy and seamless to use shared desks is key to a successful workplace.
Parking management
A single parking lot can cost easily 4-figures per year. Sharing parking lots gives Immediate ROI from both financial and employee experience point of view.
Meeting room booking
The way meeting rooms are used has changed. Less attendance per meeting and more adhoc meeting needs. Making sure spaces are optimally used is key.
How Smart office app can help Hybrid work Culture
Smart office app can be a essential tool helping employees implement collaboration practises in hybrid work. With shared week plans colleagues can ensure enough weekly face-to-face time. This will result in
Increased work satisfaction
Tighter integration between employees
Less internal Teams/Slack meetings
Increased trust between colleagues
How smart office drives sustainability and cost savings
Smart office allows efficient office space sharing between colleagues, teams and even organisations. This combined with rich hybrid work analytics and occupancy analytics makes corporate real estate able to meet more easily the sustainability goals of the organisation.
Typical measured reduction in office space is between 30-70%.
customer testimonial
“Our employees have widely adapted the Steerpath workplace app. It has made it easy to get a rolling start on our new offices with team office day planning and meeting room reservations.
For our management it has given insight into how our hybrid working practises are in and out of the office.”
Anna Rusanen
Head of Digital Workplace
MTV
