Office Neighborhoods and Flexible Workspace Management
OfficeSpace Software offers AI-powered flexible workspace management that enables organizations to design and adjust multi-use office neighborhoods tailored to various work styles, automate desk booking rules by team or role, and enhance workplace experience, helping over 2,000 global teams optimize office productivity and reduce facility management workload.
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Flexible work zones, designed your way
Create multi-use neighborhoods that support different work styles, then adjust anytime with intuitive drawing tools and self-service controls.
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Improve workplace experience
Create neighborhoods on the floor plan to govern seating assignments by team, role, or activity for more productive days at the office.
Set desk booking rules
Create project or team-based rules for desk booking by neighborhood, which automatically apply as team members change roles or departments—saving FMs hours by eliminating manual updates.
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Create flexible working arrangements
Optimize office layouts
Maximize hybrid work seating capacities with flexible neighborhood settings for visitor desk booking, desk hoteling, and desk lending.
Increase sharing ratios
Use neighborhoods to increase sharing ratios with more members and fewer desks so you can grow-in-place and optimizereal estate costs.
Find activity-based seating
Search neighborhoods by department or activity (like focused work), then book a desk in your neighborhood of choice from the floor plan.
Optimize seating capacity
Adjust for occupancy
Define and change neighborhoods, assign people to them, see team members on the floor plan, and run reports by neighborhood (occupants, headcount, department, and more).
Assign neighborhood captains
Designate “seating captains” for each neighborhood to update seating assignments, approve requests, or release bookable desks.
Get allocation insights
Track neighborhood capacity against usage to optimizeallocations, sharing ratios, and capacity targets.
INTEGRATIONS
Integrated out of the box
OfficeSpace comes fully integrated with Microsoft, Google, Slack, and Zoom.
Simplify the tech stack and keep work moving.
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See it in action
Take a self-guided tour to see how you can create office neighborhoods to orchestrate seating in seconds.
Desk booking
Unlock easy ways to find and reserve optimal seats, automatically free up vacant desks, and enable desk lending to maximize utilization.
Room booking
Reduce conference room conflicts with real-time availability and notifications.
Scenario planning
Create potential floor plans based on demand and capacity and share with stakeholders for collaboration and approval.
Insights hub
Access digestible reports and detailed metrics to accelerate decision-making and demonstrate impact.
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REVIEWS
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Read what users say on G2—the world's most trusted software marketplace.
“OfficeSpace's Neighborhoods feature has helped us create collaborative and efficient work zones that suit our dynamic working environment. It’s intuitive and adaptable, allowing us to organize our workspace to fit our needs.”
Jens M.
Officer Manager, Financial Services
“Able to modify neighborhoods in just a couple of minutes!”
Sandor V.
Project Manager, National Instruments Corporation
FAQ
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What are office neighborhoods?
Office neighborhoods are designated zones within a larger office space that are tailored to specific teams or departments. This approach allows for customization of work areas to suit the unique needs of each group, fostering a sense of community and belonging for employees. By clustering teams that frequently collaborate near each other in work neighborhoods, communication and productivity are naturally increased.
What does an office neighborhood contain?
Office neighborhoods can be made up of desks, meeting spaces, kitchen areas, flex seating zones, and more.
What is a neighborhood office layout?
Office neighborhoods can be configured in many different ways to optimize space on the floor plan, including across cubicles and as open-plan layouts. Software like OfficeSpace enables teams to test out neighborhood scenarios and collect feedback from stakeholders prior to taking plans live.
How does neighborhood seating work with hoteling or hot desking?
Neighborhoods can be easily reconfigured to accommodate varying team sizes or visitors from other departments. In most workspace management platforms, an administrator determines the layout of the neighborhoods, which desks are assigned to employees, and which workstations are used for hoteling or hot desking.
Office neighborhoods allow organizations to scale up or down more fluidly as business needs change, thereby managing financial and operational risks associated with long-term fixed or traditional office layouts. The ability to reconfigure spaces quickly and with minimal disruption supports fast-paced, agile project cycles that are conducive to innovation and better workplace management.
What are the benefits of office neighborhoods for workplace experience?
Office neighborhoods create a sense of community and belonging and foster a more engaging work environment and stronger camaraderie which ultimately leads to increased employee satisfaction in the workplace. They can improve teamwork and help an organization reach its goals faster. The flexibility of office neighborhoods allows for the creation of varied types of workstations and spaces within the same office—quiet zones, collaborative spaces, and relaxation areas—catering to different work styles and preferences. Data from neighborhood utilization can also be used to inform future types of spaces and office designs based on employee demand for different kinds of workplace design. Ultimately, effective office neighborhoods help teams improve space utilization, increase employee retention, provide a sense of belonging, and test new office environments that have the power to improve company culture.
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Moves, Adds & Changes
Take the stress out of managing office moves, adds, and seating changes with a user-friendly tool to coordinate large and small workplace moves.
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