Hot Desking
Tips and tricks on managing hot desking in your workspaces.
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Tips and tricks on managing hot desking in your workspaces.
A good office hoteling software makes it extremely easy for employees to reserve desks in advance and collaborate in the office!
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When shifting to a hybrid work model, many companies find themselves in a situation where they have more employees than available desks. This situation requires adopting a new form of office space organization, where most desks are shared between people, with very few (if any) being assigned to individual employees. There are 2 ways to […]
Organizing desk sharing in your company is a multi-step process. Once youβve laid the foundation by surveying your employees and taking your work culture into account, itβs time to set specific rules. Depending on your company, you may want to keep things loose and only introduce a simple desk sharing/hot desking policy. However, if youβre […]
Hybrid work remains at the top of the conversation about how work is changing, and how priorities are shifting. It is establishing itself as the new standard and redefining how flexible work will look in the future. A hybrid model is almost always accompanied by answering the question of how to organize desk sharing (hot […]
When companies try to build a hot desking policy (or desk sharing), they typically run into a few big issues: Employees donβt come to the office because they donβt know if thereβs an available desk for them or who else will be there; People monopolize desk space by leaving food or personal items; The office […]
This guide contains everything you need to know about hot desking – what it is, benefits and challenges, and how to manage it successfully.
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Set up the system on your own, following our detailed video guide. We will send you a step-by-step daily email with video tutorials on how to configure OfficeRnD. Once you Π°re ready, we will put you in contact with an onboarding specialist for up to 2 hours of Q&A sessions, where you can ask questions and verify your setup.
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This onboarding package is best for multi-location teams with complicated workflows. We will start with a short kick-off session to discuss your current processes, timelines, integrations and outline a step-by-step plan to ensure the smooth adoption of the system on your end. Our Onboarding Specialists will make the most effective use of your time together working to empower you to take full advantage of the system capabilities and reporting tools on your own.
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Get direct access to one of our lead support specialists and book up to 4 hours of screen-sharing calls per month with them.
We will cover the basic CRM functionalities OfficeRnD supports. We will show you how to create, update and delete companies, members and opportunities. We will show you how to create custom properties to better describe them. Weβll demonstrate how to create memberships for members, change their status and invite them on the members portal.
We will cover all billing options available in OfficeRnD. We will show you how to create tax rates and revenue accounts, how will they be applied on invoices and what discounting options the system provides. We will demonstrate how to create invoices and manually run the bill run. We will also together review the billing settings in the system and automate the billing operations.
We will show you how to create meeting rooms and configure their pricing options, booking and cancellation policies. We will cover how to create booking credits β hourly and value-based. We will demonstrate how to make a booking and how to review its corresponding fee.
We will go over what a contract is, what are its building blocks, and what types of contracts OfficeRnD provides. We will show you how to create contracts, how to sign and how-to terminate them. We will also discuss the lifecycle of each contract.
We will show you the default resource types available in OfficeRnD. We will cover how they can be edited and when should you create custom resource types. We will demonstrate how to assign memberships on the floorplan and how to accommodate floorplan changes.
We will cover how to collaborate with members via the members portal and the mobile app. We will show you how to create posts and events. We will demonstrate how to upload information about benefits and different how-to guides on the members portal. We will also go through integrations that power up collaboration with members.
We will cover the billing reports available in the system. We will show you how to use each one and dive deeper into the data it exposes.
We will cover the occupancy and utilization reports available in the system. We will show you how to use each one and dive deeper into the data it exposes.
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Rialto | β | β | β |
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