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Office Occupancy Analytics

Understand your workspace utilisation with ResourceXpress

OVERVIEW

Get ahead of overspending on real estate or complaints about lack of meeting rooms, workspaces and other facilities.

Resource Central Insights uses workspace and resource booking metrics, visitor management logs and occupancy sensors to give you a complete picture.

  • Save energy costs by closing down floors
  • Divest or sub-let parts of your office portfolio
  • Track costs & charge back​
  • Match supply of space to demand.

Workspace booking systems our customers rely on

BENEFITS

Get the information you need to optimise your office space

Get detailed, actionable insights

Insights empowers facilities managers, catering managers, and other decision-makers to answer questions like: 

  • Which rooms and workspaces are under-utilised? 
  • What are the peak utilisation days?
  • What are the most popular catering choices?
  • Which individuals or teams are the most prolific bookers?
  • Who are the repeat ‘no show’ offenders? 

Out of the box reports and bespoke Power BI dashboards deliver the insights your key stakeholders need.

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Modern office interior with busy business people walking around.

Re-shape your offices for optimal utilisation

Use Resource Central Insights to optimise your facilities:

  • Justifiably divest parts of your office portfolio
  • Save energy costs by closing down floors
  • Sub-let unused office space
  • Shrink down your usable office space to enhance co-worker collaboration.

Choose how you detect occupancy

  • Capture metrics from Resource Central bookings
  • Use a range of desk and room sensors
  • Use data from other sources such door systems

We can guide you through the best approach and pros and cons, bearing in mind your office topology, budget, IT resources, workforce concerns and even wall thickness!

What our customers have to say about us

What our customers have to say

“With our existing Zoom Workspaces contract ending, Essential stepped in and rapidly replicated some of the styling elements we had on our existing Zoom workspace booking system to help create a familiar UX when we migrated across to Microsoft Places.”

Mark Baldus, Infrastructure & Operations Manager, Dudek

What our customers have to say

“Essential has transformed our workspaces and car parks into intuitive, easily navigated interactive maps, making it simple for our people to select and book their ideal places when scheduling their office days.”

Ryan Arif Workplace Improvement Lead & Facilities, Ageas

What our customers have to say

“Being able to pre-book a desk close to colleagues is a game-changer for our team’s productivity, especially as we are about to be working in an unfamiliar temporary space whilst we refurb our Poole office.”

Chris Egan, Infrastructure Project Manager, Merlin Entertainments ltd

What our customers have to say

“It’s now quicker and easier for hosts to register visitors in advance and provide all the relevant information, such as whether the visitor needs escorting. Managing visitor arrivals has also been streamlined with services that include self-service check-in kiosks and automated notifications to hosts.”

Jane Jennings, Business System Analyst, Supply Chain and FM, NATS

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