OfficeSpace Blog
Explore industry insights and best practices as told by experts to create a smarter, more productive workplace.
Office furniture and waste: Maximizing the lifecycle of your assets
Say goodbye to office furniture waste! Learn how to invest, track, and maintain office assets for maximum lifespan and minimal environmental impact.
Measuring efficiency in the workplace: tips for the hybrid office
Measuring efficiency in the workplace has never been more important or more challenging. As companies embrace hybrid work and a variety of new flexible workplace strategies, they need to understand how any changes they make impact company productivity and the bottom line. Assuming they have the right tools on hand, facility managers (FMs) and other space planners can collect critical productivity metrics that measure employee productivity and workplace efficiency. In this article, we explore measuring efficiency in the workplace, along with the best approaches and metrics to do so in a hybrid workplace.
How To Leverage The Right Data To Create A Better Workplace
Facilities reporting is key to creating the right workplace in our new normal. In this article, we explore facilities reporting and what makes a good facility management report. We’ll also cover the types of metrics facility managers (FMs) can track, along with three key reports they should be leveraging.
8 Hybrid leadership challenges (and how to overcome them)
There’s now no doubt that hybrid work is here to stay, which means that a myriad of hybrid challenges are here to stay, too. Both hybrid employees and hybrid leadership teams have had to adopt new ways of working, in response to an increasingly dynamic workplace and future of work. In this article, we’re exploring hybrid leadership challenges in particular, including solutions to eight of the most common hybrid challenges facing leaders today.
CRE data and how to use it to right-size your real estate portfolio
In the post-pandemic world of corporate real estate (CRE), two things have never been more clear: decision makers need to be collecting robust CRE data, and they need to be using it to right-size their real estate portfolio. We’ll be drawing on insights from OfficeSpace Senior Product Manager Kathleen Williams, who focuses on how to help clients use advanced real estate analytics to improve workplace efficiency and employee experience.
Corporate real estate optimization: 6 key steps to a streamlined portfolio
Thanks to the lingering effects of the pandemic and the Great Resignation, corporate real estate optimization has never been more of a priority. Companies have always wanted to spend less on real estate, which is one the main reasons why so many are now committing to hybrid work. But more and more companies are also seeing that, with the right tools and strategy, they can use their real estate portfolio to improve employee experience, too. In this article, we explore corporate real estate optimization in our ‘new normal,’ covering how to optimize your entire portfolio (and why you want to).
The hybrid schedule: 3 best practices (and real-world examples)
With the rising popularity of hybrid work, you might assume that creating a hybrid schedule would be an easy task. But that would be a wrong assumption, as many companies and their leadership are still struggling to come up with a plan that can keep employees happy and ensure maximum productivity. In this article, we detail the three necessary steps to creating a great hybrid schedule for any company. We’ll also explore different scheduling options, and provide examples of successful hybrid schedules in action.
Employee centric culture: 8 steps to a people-centered workplace
Everyone benefits from an employee centric culture. When companies foster a positive culture, they’re also laying the groundwork for higher productivity and profits, along with lower turnover rates and unnecessary human resources expenses. In this article, we cover eight best practices for creating a more employee centric workplace, even with a remote or distributed workforce. We’ll also explore why an employee centric culture is so critical to business success.
Employee badge data: Get hybrid right with the right data
Employee badge data is one of the top data sources for managing today’s new hybrid office. Especially when it is combined with real-time workplace reports and analytics, facility managers (FMs) and the hybrid leadership can use this data to build a more accurate picture of actual office use. In this article, we explore how to use employee badge data in a hybrid setting. We also include how to combine badge data with other data sources to make more informed decisions for the workplace.
Hybrid leadership: 13 best practices to future-proof the office
Hybrid work requires good hybrid leadership to be successful. This may seem obvious. But in the pressure to get things right, companies tend to focus more on hybrid employees and their hybrid schedules, and on areas like hybrid workplace technology and workplace transformation. In this article, we explore hybrid leadership, including 13 best practices every leader needs to keep top of mind to support workers and create a more productive, future-proof office.
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