Office Space Management: Why It Matters and How It Works
Office space management is the ongoing process of supervising and controlling the physical space in a business or organization’s offices. It involves planning how the space will be used, gathering and analyzing utilization data, and reconfiguring your space as needed to meet your organization’s goals and meet constraints. While office space management has always been […]
3 Challenges with Equipment Lease Management
(And How to Solve Them) Equipment lease management is a subset of lease administration that focuses exclusively on leased equipment. It’s how organizations monitor and handle legal agreements to rent vehicles, machinery, and other equipment they need to operate. Due to lease classification changes brought on by ASC 842, the depreciation of these assets over […]
Effective Office Wayfinding: Make Navigating Your Space Easy
As your organization grows, your office space has to expand to keep up. And the larger the campus, the more complex it becomes to find your way around. This can cause employees to lose time simply figuring out where they need to be, and it can create anxiety about getting lost. And for guests, struggling […]
CAFM Software: Streamline Maintenance & Reduce Asset Downtime
Even if you only have one small facility, it’s hard for a maintenance manager to work from spreadsheets, coordinate internal and external teams, manage asset data, track maintenance schedules, and navigate work orders. The larger your operation, the more unwieldy manual processes become. Excel spreadsheets don’t work very well at scale. And they won’t cut […]
How to Address Presenteeism in the Modern Workplace
Presenteeism is the problem of lost productivity caused by employees working when they should be taking sick days to rest and recover. It’s kind of like the inverse to absenteeism, where employees regularly fail to show up at work without a good reason. Instead of being absent when they should be present, they’re present when […]
The Corporate Guide to Occupancy Analytics
Occupancy analytics is the process of monitoring, tracking, and analyzing a facility’s space utilization, typically using a combination of IoT sensors and space management software. Whether you’re managing a hybrid workplace or all your employees work on campus, you need insights into how people use your physical space: how often they use it, when they […]
Capital Program Management Software: Get More Projects Done, Faster
Capital program management software (CPMS) helps organizations efficiently plan, approve, execute, and finance construction projects at scale. The more locations you have to manage, the more construction projects you have to coordinate, and the harder it is to keep those projects running smoothly. Capital programs deal with such large operations that there are usually many […]
Capital Program Management: Modern Challenges and Solutions
Capital program management groups related construction projects together, helping organizations plan, fund, coordinate, and execute work across multiple locations. Programs replicate projects on a large scale—from building brand-new stores to adding additional equipment (like ice cream machines, pizza ovens, or freezers) and expanding inventory space. Well planned and executed programs can have immediate and long-term […]
Top 5 Trends in Workspace Optimization
The average workplace has changed a lot in the past few years. The pandemic caused an exodus from the office and forced millions of employees to work from home. Even as many of them return to the office, they’re coming back with new expectations about what their workspace can look like. As businesses work to […]
How to Make Your Workplace More Attractive to Prospects
It’s no secret that recruiting and retaining in-person employees is difficult right now. People have grown accustomed to working remotely, and they’re reluctant to return to traditional office settings—especially with the widespread availability of fully-remote positions. But it’s even difficult to hire for positions where in-person work is still the norm. The demand for labor […]
4 Top Challenges with Space Management in 2022
Space management helps your business make the most of your real estate portfolio. By tracking and analyzing how your space is being used, you can optimize your workplace to increase productivity and improve employee satisfaction. In the past few years, space management has become more important than ever. While millions of employees permanently work from […]
Activity-Based Working in 2022: Pros and Cons
“Activity-based working” first appeared in Erik Veldhoen’s 1995 book, The Demise of the Office. Over the past few years, the concept has rapidly grown in popularity. Changing circumstances have called into question many aspects of the traditional workplace that we’ve taken for granted. Activity-based working (ABW) is a workplace model that provides employees with different […]
Implementing a Workplace Reservation System: Timeline and Best Practices
So, you’ve started thinking about implementing a workplace reservation system to handle your post-COVID return to the workplace. 50% of US Executives plan to invest in hoteling applications That’s a great decision because that software can help: Follow guidelines like physically distancing workspaces, limiting capacity, and managing who comes in and out of the building Employees […]
How Lease Renewal Clauses Can Hurt Your Business
Lease renewal clauses give your business a window of opportunity to perpetuate the arrangement you currently have with a landlord. Usually, you get similar terms and lower rent than what you’d pay if you had to start negotiations from scratch. Your landlord gets to lock in another lease period with a quality tenant (so they […]
The Executive’s Guide to the Hybrid Workplace
Preventive Maintenance: Keep Your Assets in Peak Condition
Preventive maintenance (or preventative maintenance) is the ongoing process of performing routine maintenance at regular intervals, anticipating breakdowns to keep your assets in peak condition. It involves proactively servicing equipment and repairing or replacing components before they cause failures and unscheduled downtime. By scheduling work in advance, stopping problems before they happen, and reducing the […]
Managing A Safe, Post-COVID Workplace
Control in the Hybrid Workplace: Part 4 It has been a year of whiplash as we’ve seen different variants and peaks of COVID reverse or delay plans to return to the office. Now, as many organizations are finally getting back to the office and some semblance of normalcy, the question on everyone’s mind is how […]
Workforce Management: Managing and Resourcing Your Employees for Success
Workforce management is the process of overseeing a business or organization’s workforce in order to maximize performance and productivity. What began as an approach to time tracking and scheduling has expanded into an all-encompassing strategy for investing in employees and equipping them with the resources needed to carry out their jobs efficiently. An efficient workforce […]
