Facility Management Explained: A Modern Guide to Building Operations
Facility management is the combination of processes that organizations use to oversee and coordinate the assets, people, services, and utilities associated with their buildings. Depending on the scale and complexity of the facilities you need to manage, this often encompasses several distinct tools and multiple roles within your organization. While the importance and general value […]
7 Office Layout Ideas for Enterprises
How you arrange your office directly affects the way people feel about where and how they work—and the type of work they’ll find easiest to accomplish. You have to account for both functionality and aesthetics, aligning your space with your business objectives while empowering employees to be productive and happy. The right office layout motivates […]
What Is a Right of Use Asset?
Under old lease accounting standards, a lessee would account for a leased asset by recording the asset itself. But this has changed under new lease accounting standards, including ASC 842, GASB 87, and IFRS 16. Now, lessees must account for a leased asset by recording the right to use the asset, rather than the asset […]
7 Must-Have Conference Room Management Capabilities
Whether you’re managing a hybrid workplace or your employees are in the office full time, it’s vital that your workforce has access to the resources they need. This is most challenging with shared resources that aren’t assigned to anyone in particular, like conference rooms. Conference rooms are some of your best spaces for facilitating collaboration, […]
Key Components of Integrated Facilities Management (IFM)
Integrated Facilities Management (IFM) is a holistic approach to facility management that encompasses coordinating internal and external services, space optimization, and sustainability management. By optimizing the entire facility and streamlining its operations, IFM empowers organizations to generate savings across their real estate portfolios. While some organizations attempt to keep facility management budgets low by deferring […]
Office Space Planning: How to Maximize the Benefits and Achieve Goals
Whether you’ve occupied the same office space for decades or you’re opening a new location, it’s important to make intentional decisions about how your space is used—so you can ensure it serves your immediate needs, works toward short- and long-term goals, and gets used efficiently. Office space planning is the process of determining how your […]
How to Reduce Occupancy Costs: Strategies for Corporate Offices and Retailers
Occupancy costs encompass all of the expenses you pay in exchange for the right to use a facility—primarily rent, utilities, insurance, and common area maintenance (CAM) expenses. Some occupancy costs are fixed, and others are variable, but they’re all defined in the terms of your lease. And there are always ways to lower them—now, and […]
Space Utilization: What It Is and How It’s Measured
Optimizing your office space can dramatically reduce costs and increase productivity. But how do you know when to make a change, or if it has been successful? Space utilization metrics answer these questions, helping you reduce wasted space, plan for demand, and avoid conflicts. In this article, we’ll explain: What is space utilization? Depending on […]
Space Allocation: Using Your Office Space Effectively
Defining your office space and assigning it a purpose is an integral, ongoing part of space management. Allocating sufficient space for particular work activities or departments helps you achieve business goals, streamline daily operations, and improve employee satisfaction. Space allocation is the process of designating how various rooms, workstations, and areas are intended to be […]
Moves, Adds, and Changes: Why You Need a Dedicated MAC Solution
All businesses need to move employees around from time to time, along with the assets assigned to those employees. For small businesses with only a handful of team members, this can be a straightforward process that requires relatively little forethought or strategy to accomplish. But for enterprises, organizations, or agencies that employ more people, the […]
7 Keys to Managing Change in the Workplace
Change is often necessary for growth. But in the workplace, employees and the leaders who oversee them tend to find comfort in routine. Learning new tasks, tools, approaches, and cultural norms can be stressful and even frustrating. So when the time comes for organizational change, it’s important to understand what it takes to manage change […]
Report: Remote Workers Have More Privacy and Fewer Interruptions Than In-Person Employees
It’s nice to imagine that when your employees set foot in the office, they all have the space they need to be productive. You’ve probably made significant investments to see that they do. But whether you have an open floor plan, cubicles, neighborhoods, or another layout, your office may actually be more disruptive than an […]
Report: Fully Remote and Hybrid Employees Report Higher Levels of Satisfaction with Company Culture
As employers have pushed for the return to the office, company culture has often been a key part of the rationale for getting employees back in the building. Working remotely, they argue, results in a loss of company culture. Alternatively, they suggest that an employer’s office is an essential component of their company culture. It […]
The Check-In Checklist: Essential Visitor Management Software Features
Optimize Your Corporate Real Estate with Tango Portfolio Strategy
The normalization of hybrid work has completely shifted the way most employers think about office space and plan for growth. According to Gartner, more than 80 percent of organizations have continued some form of hybrid work in the post-COVID economy. Gone are the days of long-term leases and oversized offices—today’s enterprises strive for agility, leveraging […]
Planning and Executing an Effective Workplace Strategy
How to Optimize Office Space: 7 Tips
Whether your organization has a single office building or hundreds of them, getting the most value from your real estate takes work. With strategic space planning, you can optimize your office space for a variety of goals, including reducing costs, maximizing space utilization, downsizing your real estate portfolio, creating better synergy, and more. Whatever your […]
The Key Components of Visitor Management
Visitor management is the process organizations use to verify, accommodate, and keep records of visitors. Depending on the organization, it can be as simple as writing names on a notepad or distributing name tags. But many organizations and government entities manage visitors with a more complicated system of policies, practices, and technology to comply with […]
