How Plentymarkets Enabled Employees’ Return to the Office
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Plentymarkets is a Germany based technology company that has a 100% hybrid work model post Covid where employees have the flexibility to return to the office at their discretion. During Covid they were forced to go 100% remote moving from a traditional Monday-Friday office work model. With only 40 office seats for 250 employees, asking workers to come back to the office was a logistical nightmare that required the right solution.
The OfficeRnD Hybrid platform makes hybrid work, work for Plentymarkets by:
One of the biggest frustrations with return to office initiatives is for employees to make the commute only to find themselves alone and joining Slack while co-workers remain home.
The team at Plentymarkets already had existing tools and did not want yet another platform to complicate return to work initiatives. The solution had to be full integrated and use SSO to encourage adoption.
Germany had very specific return to office health requirements as Covid moved from pandemic to endemic and Plentymarkets needed a way to comply.
Dewhirst decided that face to face work in the office would be dictated by company requirements and individual staff needs so they needed a solution that could adjust with business demands.
OfficeRnD has a survey feature that can be utilized for just about any purpose. Post Covid, Plentymarkets used the tool to ensure they complied with German health regulations and moving forward they can use a variety of surveys for anything from health checks to employee NPS tracking.
Plentymarkets has a desk to employee ratio of just 16% meaning that for every 4 office workers, they only had one desk available. They also had a 100% hybrid model meaning employees could come and go at their discretion. For most employees, being in the office with other employees provides the highest value so they needed to use OfficeRnD’s workplace software to allow employees visibility to who was working, when and where in the office.
OfficeRnD integrates with common calendar and collaboration software such as Teams, Outlook and Google Calendar for ease of use. Plentymarkets used these integrations to ensure that employees wouldn’t have to utilize a separate application to book desks and rooms while providing visibility to their team’s calendars.
Currently the Plentymarkets team is engaging with OfficeRnD’s desk and room book solution at a 91.6% rate and that is without a mandated Hybrid workplace policy. Being able to effectively manage limited resources while employees collaborate in the office provides leadership with the reassurance that they can grow without adding unnecessary office expenses.
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