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What keeps you up at night? Is it ghosts and ghouls, or something like the Sunday scaries? Constant workplace changes in recent years have employees anxious about what will happen next, leading to stress and mistrust. Amazon’s sudden announcement of the five-day office requirement is certainly enough to scare people away. 73% of its workforce are already considering quitting in response, according to anonymous job review site Blind.
Things aren't all that rosier for those who feel like they’re still in the hybrid work experiment in 2024. From musical chairs on repeat to hybrid work chaos, the frustration of managing space effectively in the modern workplace can be enough for you to want to pull your hair out.
This Halloween, don’t let the Sunday scaries continue to haunt your organization. See how Skedda’s workplace management platform brings order to chaos this spooky season.
Scary #1: Wrong Place at the Wrong Time (With the Wrong People)
“Wrong place, wrong time.” That’s always a scary thought. Now, add the wrong people into the mix, and you’ve got yourself a terrifying experience. From rowdy neighbors to surprise visitors, hybrid workplaces—when managed poorly—can become one of those nightmares.
Skedda helps mitigate these problems with custom interactive floor plans you can use to always find the right people in the office, robust rules and roles engine for creating office neighborhoods that ensure you’re always in the right place, and quotas/buffers you can set to ensure no one overstays their bookings. Skedda’s space attributes feature (coming soon) also allows you to add information to bookable spaces so people can easily see what amenities are available and filter for specific spaces with those amenities.
Skedda Visitor Management ensures that anyone coming in for an appointment can easily find the right people at the right time for their meetings. Visitors walking in can also make an impromptu appointment, and the system will automatically notify who they’re meeting so appointments can be set up on the spot. Additionally, Skedda’s integration with Logitech Tap Scheduler allows you to put Logitech tablets outside conference rooms so people can see what’s available at a glance.
“We wanted something to take care of processes that would help us identify who is on our premises. Skedda Visitor Management is working quite well. It’s great that we can send invitations to guests, explain where they have to go and when, and reserve spaces—all within the same system.” - Jan Opletal, Security & Quality Specialist at Actum Digital
See how Actum Digital uses Skedda Visitor Management to boost onsite safety and security.
Scary #2: “Hello? Anybody there?”
Walking into an empty office, especially after a long commute, is less than ideal. Not only is it frustrating to know that you’ll be working alone in the office and could’ve just done that work at home, but it’s also counterproductive to completing team projects.
With Skedda, you don’t have to worry about showing up to an office devoid of life. Skedda’s integration with Slack and Microsoft Teams helps you easily see “Who’s In” the office for the day and week. You can make that easier by setting up automated recurring reports to get the down low on who will be in the office. That helps with coordinating in-person collaboration with team members on projects. Whether or not you were planning to go into the office, seeing that your favorite team members are in may give you FOMO enough to go in yourself.
Additionally, Skedda’s calendar integrations with Microsoft Outlook and Google Calendar make setting up in-person meetings and booking conference rooms a breeze. You can book a meeting directly in your calendars, see the availability of all your attendees, and reserve a meeting room all in one place. This reduces confusion and the likelihood that someone misses changes to meetings and shows up to one that has been moved to a different time or place.
“What’s more, now that we have MS365 two-way sync, anytime my executive assistant books a tour, I don’t have to go digging around in my inbox. It appears right in my calendar and I know straight away what I’m doing that day.” - Steve Maclaren, Chief Operating Office at The National Robotarium
Scary #3: Ghost Busting Ghost Bookings
How scary is it to not actually know who’s in your office or how your spaces are being used? This can also become a huge problem in emergencies or security breaches. Luckily for you, you don’t have to stare at the situation like it’s a black box with Skedda.
Skedda’s workplace management platform gives you workplace intelligence data to help you keep track of occupants onsite and document all previous bookings. The analytics dashboard gives you insights on space usage so you can determine which days are more popular and which spaces are booked more often. Additionally, the check-in functionality helps prevent ghost bookings—where people don’t show up to their booked spaces—by freeing up previously booked spaces that are not actually being used.
“We had a culture where people had their own offices, and now no one has their own office. In the beginning, we found that some people were block-booking a meeting space for long periods and not using it for the entire duration or not showing up altogether.” - Caroline Purcell, the Lead for Deans Projects at Royal Docks School of Business and Law
Skedda is also improving the check-in features with Occupancy and QR code tracking. Without having to implement expensive hardware, you can verify who’s onsite so you’re not taken off guard by surprise faces showing up. The ability to attach designated QR codes to shared resources is great for ensuring items don’t magically disappear in the office.
Vanquish the Hybrid Work Scaries
It’s nearing the end of 2024, and workers are tired of getting spooked. Help your employees find the space, people, and resources they need to do their best work with a robust workplace management system and cultivate a smooth-running modern workplace that enhances productivity, collaboration, and innovation.
Start managing your workspaces more effectively with your free Skedda account today.
