Offision is an innovative app designed exclusively for Microsoft Teams, offering a seamless and efficient solution for desk booking and office management.

In this article, we will explore the features and benefits of Offision, highlighting how it optimizes workspace utilization and enhances team collaboration within the Microsoft Teams ecosystem.

Streamlined Desk Booking

Offision simplifies the process of booking desks within an organization. With just a few clicks, employees can reserve their preferred desks for specific dates and times, ensuring they have a dedicated workspace when they come into the office.

The intuitive interface of Offision integrated within Microsoft Teams allows for a seamless user experience. By eliminating the need for separate applications, Offision encourages widespread adoption among team members, enhancing the utilization of office space.

Resource Utilization

One of the key advantages of Offision is its ability to optimize resource utilization. Apart from desk booking, the app enables employees to reserve meeting rooms, car spots, and other office resources directly within Microsoft Teams.

By providing a centralized platform for resource management, Offision ensures that resources are efficiently allocated, minimizing conflicts and maximizing productivity.

Managers and office administrators gain valuable insights into resource usage patterns, enabling them to make data-driven decisions to improve resource allocation.

Seamless Integration with Microsoft Teams

As an app exclusively designed for Microsoft Teams, Offision seamlessly integrates with the collaboration platform, leveraging its extensive capabilities.

Users can access Offision’s features directly within Microsoft Teams, eliminating the need to switch between multiple applications. This integration not only enhances user convenience but also fosters a cohesive and collaborative work environment.

Enhanced Team Collaboration

Offision goes beyond desk booking and resource management by facilitating team collaboration within Microsoft Teams. By providing insights into individual booking behaviors and trends, Offision enables teams to make informed decisions when planning meetings, lunches, or social activities.

The app’s features, such as car spot booking and space insights, promote a sense of community and engagement among team members, fostering a strengthened workplace culture.

Conclusion

Offision is a powerful desk booking app designed exclusively for Microsoft Teams, offering organizations an all-in-one solution for workspace management.

By streamlining desk booking, resource utilization, and attendance visibility, Offision optimizes office space, enhances team collaboration, and empowers organizations to adapt to flexible work arrangements seamlessly.

With its seamless integration with Microsoft Teams, Offision provides a user-friendly and efficient experience, ensuring widespread adoption and maximizing the benefits of a flexible work environment.

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So how can leaders encourage employees to value face-to-face time? According to the findings in Microsoft’s recent research “Hybrid work is just work. Do We Have It Wrong? “, people seek each other out in order to rekindle the social interaction they have missed.

In other words, reestablishing social capital can be a potent motivator for employees to return to the workplace.

People desire flexibility and autonomy 

Based on Microsoft research, while getting employees back to the office in person is a worry for 82% of company decision-makers in the upcoming year, the reality is that individuals today want flexibility and autonomy regarding how, when, and where they work.

The policy cannot change this situation on its own: 78% of business decision-makers and 73% of employees agree that there must be more to return to the office than simply meeting company requirements.

Companies risk missing out on attracting and retaining top talent if they don’t use the in-person time to repair and deepen team ties.

Motivation Key: Connecting with colleagues

Connecting with colleagues is a key motivation for working in person. 

84% of employees would be driven by the possibility of interacting with co-workers, while 85% would be motivated by mending team relationships. Additionally, workers say they would visit the office more regularly if they knew their immediate team members or coworkers would be there (73% or 74%, respectively).

Younger generations are particularly eager to connect with senior leadership and their direct managers in person in order to establish themselves as members of their workplace community and feel more connected to their coworkers.

Rebuild social capital

Employees’ desire to rekindle their relationships with coworkers fits in well with the organization’s strong need to repair social capital. According to 68% of business decision-makers, the transition to hybrid work has made it more difficult to maintain social relationships and team cohesion.

Based on the research, nearly half of employees report feeling alienated from their firm as a whole, and their relationships outside of their specific work group have worsened as a result of this.

Never miss out on authenticity and technology 

Technology is essential for fostering connectivity among people no matter where, when, or how they work. For example, systems like Microsoft Viva and ONES can help staff to have more connections with each other, work more closely, and easier to manage their office equipment. 

Additionally, good communication is one of the most important abilities that corporate decision-makers (96%) and employees (95%) say they will need in the upcoming year in order to keep everyone informed and engaged.

Also, communication must be sincere rather than only informed. Employees rank authenticity as the most critical trait a manager can possess in order to help them perform their best work (85%), and 83% of corporate decision-makers agree that senior leadership must act truthfully.

Suggestions from Microsoft

Microsoft has suggested some actions for decision-makers to encourage work-from-home policy and retain talents:

• Use in-person time to help employees rebuild team bonds and networks.
• Build a digital employee experience to help employees stay connected to each other, to leadership, and to the company culture no matter where they’re working.
• Create a digital community with modern communication tools to fuel conversation, empower people to express themselves, and connect leadership and employees.

If you would like to learn more about how to implement a hybrid working with ONES, feel free to contact us: hello@ones.software, or visit ONES Software’s official website for more information: https://ones.software/.  

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85% of executives have “productivity paranoia”, and find it challenging to have faith in their workers’ productivity due to the transition to hybrid work.

85% of leaders have productivity paranoia

The difference between the percentage of leaders who say they are completely certain that their team is productive (12%) and the percentage of workers who say they are productive at work (87%) is glaring.

Microsoft reports that 85% of executives find it challenging to have faith in their workers’ productivity due to the transition to hybrid work.

Additionally, because employees lack context on how and why they are being watched, some firms utilize technology to measure activity rather than effect, damaging trust and resulting in “productivity theater.”

Because of this, bosses now have “productivity paranoia”, believing that workers aren’t working despite while hours worked, meetings attended, and other activity measures have gone up.

Clarity is the key to relieving paranoia

This paranoia over productivity might make hybrid work untenable. Instead of worrying about whether their employees are working hard enough, leaders should assist them in concentrating on the most crucial tasks.

Less than a third (31%) of employees think their managers have ever provided clear direction during one-on-one meetings, despite the fact that 81% of workers believe it is crucial for managers to assist them in prioritizing their job.

Starting at the top is necessary to solve this problem: More direction on setting priorities for their own work is seen by 74% of people managers as improving performance, and 80% of them feel they would personally gain more clarity from senior leadership on important goals.

(Learn more: Businesses are more assured about obtaining hybrid work)

Feedback keep your talents

Based on Microsoft, the feedback loop must be closed in order to keep talent.

When compared to workers who think their employers don’t use employee input to drive change, those who believe their employers do are happier (90% vs. 69%) and engaged (89% vs. 73%).

And what about the workers who don’t believe their employers make changes based on feedback? In comparison to those who do, they are more than twice as likely to consider quitting in the upcoming year (16% vs. 7%).

To keep an eye on your workforce, routinely gather employee input at the organizational, departmental, and team levels—Leaders should often discuss what they hear, how they respond, and why in order to foster engagement and confidence in feedback systems.

(Set up your feedback survey: 20+ Questions for your Hybrid Working Employee Survey)

Hybrid work is working

The results of Microsoft’s poll are unequivocal: hybrid work is profitable.

It would appear that corporate leaders rather than employees are the primary barrier to successful hybrid work. We hope that more leaders would pay attention to Microsoft’s findings and cease “productivity panic.”

Learn more about hybrid working news: https://ones.software/blog/category/hybrid-work/

Set up your hybrid working environment to cease “productivity panic.”: your All-in-one smart office system

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Schedule Calendar

You can now easily check and manage your meetings and reservation on our schedule calendar in Microsoft Teams.

Reserve your room for Teams meeting

You can easily find a suitable room and desk based on your needs, such as location, types, amenities, and availability. Then you can reserve your room or desk together with your Teams meeting.

A living office view

Use our interactive floor plan on your Microsoft Teams. Improve office visibility, where all users will instantly see the latest changes reflected, and find your desired room or desk on the map right away.

Sync your booking to your room and desk

Once you have created the booking on Teams, the booking detail will be automatically updated to the room display or desk display. You do not need to worry about the reserved room and desk will be occupied by others anymore.

For more information, see the page on our website.

Our mission is to create technology solutions that support hybrid workplaces and streamline your office experience.

Contact us: hello@ones.software, or visit ONEs Software official website for more information: https://ones.software/. 

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