CohnReznick LLP

Supporting a transition to shared spaces and in the face of a pandemic

Background

CohnReznick LLP is a National Professional Services firm headquartered in New York, NY. The firm was ranked in the top 15 Firms in 2020 by Accounting Today.

With a large national portfolio, CohnReznick set out to find ways to optimize their space and save costs, especially in more expensive real estate markets. The firm knew they needed to use their workspaces and collaboration spaces more efficiently to capture cost savings while keeping their employee experience and productivity a top priority. They also needed to optimize and allow for growth without adding more space to their existing portfolio footprint, as well as work toward consolidating or reducing space (and its high operational costs) if possible, and where it made sense.

Tango Reserve
Supporting a transition to shared spaces and in the face of a pandemic
“Tango Reserve is easier than booking a hotel or flight—it’s less information than that. That’s why it’s been so successful with our employees. And now in this day and age, they realize it’s something that’s also keeping them safe.”
Office Manager at CohnReznick

The Solution

Platform Implementation & User Adoption

CohnReznick transitioned from traditional seating to shared space and selected Tango Reserve to manage the reservation process for workspaces. Not only would the platform provide the business rules and ease-of-use to support the day-to-day operations and employee work needs, but the organization could also take advantage of the advanced Analytics engine to analyze utilization and occupancy for longer term strategic space optimization. As CohnReznick rolled out to offices all over the country in just a matter of a few months, the most important priority was reducing the effort the end user would need to go through before they got to work and when they arrived. Tango Reserve’s incredible ease of use made the user adoption of over 2,500 employees easier than they imagined.

Pandemic Response & Safety Management

When the pandemic hit just a few months after implementation, Tango Reserve allowed CohnReznick to quickly support employees who still needed to have a safe space to work, away from their noisy homes. They can manage capacity based on each locations’ local and state regulations and can even control the types of spaces available so only private or semi-private spaces could be used by anyone who needed them. Managers also have access to Contact Tracing reports to make sure they know who was in the office in the event of a positive test result.

Advanced Analytics & Space Optimization

One of the greatest benefits CohnReznick finds with Tango Reserve is access to the advanced utilization and occupancy analytics. Prior to Tango Reserve, managers would need to comb through individual building security badge reports to determine who was in the office. With Tango Reserve, they can pull a list of everyone present in each location and send the report to anyone who needs it. They are also able to look at what types of spaces are used most and which are not used at all to make informed decisions about the space they make available to their employees, and can repurpose underutilized spaces into higher demand workspace types.

Strategic Benefits & Employee Experience

With Tango Reserve, CohnReznick now has full control of their offices with the ability to support a more flexible and efficient workplace, manage capacity at any point in time, and adjust their space to make employees as productive as possible. Their workforce can now enjoy the flexibility and choice of where and what type of spaces to work in to do their best work, a benefit that’s been enjoyed by employees of larger firms for years; this is viewed as a strategic benefit to attract and retain key talent.

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