Save Money, Track Resources with Flexible Workplaces
Recent studies of knowledge workers, particularly salespeople, customer representatives, and consultants, indicate they spend only 30% of their time in the office. Telecommuting also contributes to less frequent presence in the office. So why have an assigned workspace?
Many companies are beginning to re-think traditional assigned seating and introduce a flexible workspace concept. With the increasing price of commercial real-estate, leading organisations must find ways to more effectively and efficiently maximise their use of office space. Many organisations, especially those with a highly mobile workforce, are implementing new workplace and hoteling concepts where employees can reserve a workplace for a specified period of time through a Self-Service portal.
With the Planon Smart Workplace Solution, organisations can keep track of all their resources. When an employee arrives at work in the morning (or logs in from home via the company intranet or via a mobile phone), they can swipe their access card or log into the Planon system at a designated kiosk using their unique user ID and password. They can then either reserve workspaces by name/number or, in some systems, by looking at a schematic layout of the office and visually selecting a workspace. Once the reservation process is complete, a number of functions may be performed by the system including phone routing to the workspace, notification to an office 'concierge' who prepares the workspace with the resources necessary in order for the employee to do their job (phone, technical equipment, etc.) Planon Smart Workplace gives users clear visibility into employees’ locations and enables you to assign services correspondingly.
Using Planon’s Smart Workplace Solution, organisations can save money through the more effective use of their office space and improve their sustainable footprint by reduced travelling and CO2 emissions.
