The verdict is out; the hybrid workplace is here to stay. However, organizing and managing a hybrid work environment is challenging for most organizations. New protocols often require new solutions. MyLobby Office Hoteling App is a solution that allows your employees and team members to book their own assigned workspace ranging from; a hot desk, private office, or meeting room. The process only takes 15 seconds.
If your office admin person looks miserable these days because everyone is emailing her to schedule, cancel, or reschedule, upsize, and downsize their meeting rooms. When she calls in sick, everything comes to a grinding halt. Management is asking, why aren’t more employees coming to the office more regularly? The response usually goes like this, BECAUSE SCHEDULING IS A BIG FREAKING HASSLE DUDE!
Just about any individual working in a dynamic organization knows that there will be a lot of changes to people’s schedules and coordinating everyone’s schedules. Trying to organize that on Outlook or Google calendar, or even worse, google sheets is not good enough for that dynamic environment.
How does one pick a desk beside their manager’s office from a list of desks on a spreadsheet? Most people are visual, and with a spreadsheet list, it’s not easy to determine which desk is the right location where they want to be sitting for that day.
Adopting a hybrid working model will introduce a series of challenges MyLobby provides a platform to streamline the process. How do you keep track of where all your employees are at any time? How do you seamlessly check who’s coming into the office or what rooms and desks are available? And how do you ensure that there’s no confusion about who owns what room/desk when an employee changes their mind about the room/desk they want to book?
MyLobby Hoteling App is designed to address these issues by keeping track of employees’ room and desk reservations. It’s a visual process, and they can choose their office from a list view, or a graphical floor map view will give them an exact visual cue to know where they’re going to be working for their scheduled time.
Now, what exactly is Hoteling App?
Hoteling eliminates assigned seats in the office/workspace, allowing employees to make a reservation of a desk/room (in advance) depending on the type of work they have to do on a day-to-day basis.
This practice aims to help employees be more efficient when performing their daily tasks by allowing them to choose where they want to sit according to their needs at any given time. For example, if an employee needs to collaborate with other members on a project, they can reserve one of the meeting rooms instead of sharing a desk with another person who may not be involved in that project at all! This practice has been implemented by several companies around the world, including Google and several other tech companies like Facebook and Spotify.
What is the benefit of a Hoteling App?
With the MyLobby Hoteling App, companies can also set parameters for designated areas in the office. For example, certain meeting rooms and office spaces are reserved for specific teams, members, and employees, and only people from those teams can select a desk in those areas. These restrictions ensure that all employees are working within their predetermined areas.
This also allows for more flexibility in managing who goes where. For example, suppose someone needs to move around more than others, such as salespeople who travel frequently or remote workers who sometimes need to be on-site at their clients’ offices. In that case, they can use their hoteling app credentials to sign into any desk available at any time of day. In this way, they can work wherever they need and whenever they need without having to worry about getting into trouble with HR because they took up too much space in one area (or not enough space) by staying there all day long.
The additional value of the MyLobby Hoteling App will offer your organization are:
- Your employees will be able to book their own meetings within seconds
- Book desks and maintain social distancing
- Provide your team with a visual floor layout
- Filtering meeting room and offices based on requiremets
- Receive reminder notifications of your booking
- Invite colleagues
- Multi-tier seniority booking
- Reduce booking conflicts
- Easy to use
See how the MyLobby Hoteling App works
Why are companies using MyLobby Hoteling, and how long will they keep using it?
With the MyLobby Hoteling App, companies can also set parameters for designated areas in the office. For example, certain meeting rooms and office spaces are reserved for specific teams, members, and employees, and only people from those teams can select a desk in those areas. These restrictions ensure that all employees are working within their predetermined areas.
This also allows for more flexibility in managing who goes where. For example, suppose someone needs to move around more than others, such as salespeople who travel frequently or remote workers who sometimes need to be on-site at their clients’ offices. In that case, they can use their hoteling app credentials to sign into any desk available at any time of day. In this way, they can work wherever they need and whenever they need without having to worry about getting into trouble with HR because they took up too much space in one area (or not enough space) by staying there all day long.
Hoteling App allows departments to keep track of which employees are in the office and when and for how long. It also will enable co-workers to plan their collaborations in advance and wherein the office they want to do it — all without having to email one another and then manually schedule it on their calendars.
They need to open their Hoteling App on their phone or laptop, pick a desk or an office or a meeting room to work at, invite colleagues, and they’re all set! This also allows them to check their bookings for the day, for the week, or an entire month to plan when they will be in the office and where they want to be seated precisely — an area tailored to their needs that day.
Since the pandemic hit, we were all forced to embrace the digital world. We had to do everything virtually – from meetings to classes to birthday celebrations of friends/family members. It may have been hard at first but eventually, people got used to it.
Companies have realized that it is possible to be productive even when employees are working from home and that things can get done without going into the office.
However, specific projects cannot be done (efficiently) if you don’t meet with co-workers for collaboration, right? Also, something about human interaction can get things done quicker and better (coffee or dinner with teammates after meetings? Yes, please).
This realization has led companies to offer flexible work arrangements and remote work options to retain employees who no longer want to commute daily or who would rather stay at home with their families.
With more and more companies adopting remote work, we’ve seen increased demand for Hoteling. This is because it allows for an efficient way of managing company resources.
That being the case, we think Hoteling is here to stay for the long run and this will integrate with our “new normal”.
How can I get started with MyLobby Hoteling?
MyLobby offers a “Hoteling” software service wherein everything is done for you. No time to set everything up? No problem. You don’t need to worry about anything else because MyLobby will take care of everything else — all the technical details are taken care of by MyLobby and their team of experts who are dedicated to ensuring that your event Hoteling system runs smoothly and efficiently.
What are the features of MyLobby Hoteling?
The Hoteling app offers various features that allow companies to have a seamless room booking system. The hoteling app will enable users to sign in and book a room using a QR code. If users don’t sign in on their booked date and time, the meeting room/office space will go back into inventory. That way, available for everyone else if people don’t show up. The system utilizes the area even if people change their minds.
So now that you know how your company can prepare itself for a hybrid workplace, set up a call or email the folks at MyLobby to get get your team it’s an online office booking platform MyLobby Hoteling App before your Office admin person has a conniption fit.