When the world comes back to work at the offices after the lock down ends, things will not be the same as before. While video conferencing has become a commonly accepted form of engagement, there will still be the need to meet face to face. While some activities can be carried out in the convenience of home where only a reliable internet connection is required, other activities that rely on human interaction will still require a space for people to meet face-to-face. Besides, human beings still ...

It is all over the news globally. Office buildings lie empty. Occupancy rates have fallen off the cliff. Those who do go to offices in essential services are confronted with bottlenecks at the lobbies and receptions, waiting for their temperature to be taken and for filling up long health declaration forms. Floors are littered with markers for safe distancing and lifts access are controlled to encourage limited usage. The coronavirus pandemic is a black swan event that has caught all of us un...

Office space is becoming more and more precious. Going by the increase in rentals around the world in commercial business and industrial districts, it is clear that there is growing demand for office spaces. Increase in rentals, electricity usage and general cost of maintaining office spaces, it is becoming imperative to maximize the usage of the space that is already available. Today management is taking a hard look at their space investments and asking increasingly complex questions on how to ...

Most large scale organizations use Microsoft Exchange for their business communication.  Microsoft Exchange is the de-facto standard for large organizations or even organizations that are running from the cloud.  Whether it is sending emails,  chatting with staff or looking up contacts,  Exchange is a powerful tool and essential for work.  One of the most commonly used feature that Exchange offers is the ability to book meeting rooms through Outlook. Its power comes f...

Setting up and attending meetings is a common activity in most organisations. With the rise in collaborations due to geographically separated offices, work-from-home policies and frequent agile team gatherings, meeting management and room utilisation is critical to the successful collaboration and communication between team members. While the number of meetings are increasing, their management is becoming and more and more complicated and confusing. A lot of frustration results from not being...

Today's business world is one of dynamism and collaboration. With offices and people spread out geographically and across tinezones,  work is usually carried out in meeting rooms with technologies such as video conferencing and shared screens.  However,  today,  we still find businesses that do not efficiently use meeting room spaces.  In most businesses, room usage is non existent.  The staff graple with problems such as: Using a shared google calendar...

When we get calls or enquiries on the room booking system solution, the caller is always in a dilemma between choosing the cloud based subscription model or the enterprise model. To help put this dilemma to rest, we have written this short article on how to go about choosing between the cloud based subscription model and the enterprise license. Today, most of the people are aware of the difference between the two models thanks to the burgeoning software-as-a-service (SaaS) type of businesses tha...

Firstly, thank you for visiting our site. This entire site and specially this blog revolves around how we can use modern tools and technologies to improve our lives by improving the spaces that we live in. We spend more than a third of our lives in offices. Out of that large sum, most of it is spent on communicating with people, collaborating across geographies, timezones and cultures and brainstorming in groups. In all these activities, space becomes a very critical component. A proper sp...