Your HR boss wants to build a more connected culture…but your managers are struggling to get everyone on the same page.
It only helped your workforce want to get back into the office… but you’re looking at a multi-year lease on a commercial property.
With tight budgets, your teams try to make the most of existing approaches, systems, and technologies. But trying to solve the problems of 2023 with solutions of 2019 just doesn’t work.
And while everyone keeps talking about how hybrid work is here to stay, for many, hybrid doesn’t really work. Forty percent of companies it will try to undo work-anywhere policies and instruct employees to come to the office more often, according to Forrester.
Creating an ideal workplace experience is the only way to stay ahead, whether employees are working hybrid, remote, or on the front line. But the stakes are high, so you can’t afford to make changes that don’t work.
Some companies are cutting back on meetings and even banning those involving more than two people.
Some require that most employees work from the office, or else.
Others focus on equitable flexibility for frontline workers.
If only one change in policy was enough to solve all the problems.
The State of Workplace Experience
While an organization may demand a return to the office, its people don’t want to return to a physical space if they don’t feel connected to their workplace culture. And they’ll never feel connected if they’re cut off from the information that connects them to the pulse of their business, or if simple, necessary tasks like finding a desk, booking a meeting room, or welcoming a visitor become too much. complex.
our Research Insights and Trends in the Workplace for 2023 confirms that employees need their tools to be productive:
- 70% say they waste time transitioning between the office and remote work locations.
- 35% of hybrid workers struggle to feel connected and engaged.
- 29% report that it takes days or even longer to receive important information.
Against the backdrop of these challenges, it’s no surprise that 93% of respondents feel their organizations could improve the office experience.
This is work experience in 2023, and it’s not good enough. The workplace needs to feel alive, but for many, it’s on life support. Organizations need innovative ways to support and engage their employees: the nine-to-five office, the stay-at-home guys, the frontline critics, and everyone in between.
A retail giant we worked with faced challenges around engaging employees and delivering consistent communications among nearly 300,000 employees, many of them without desks. The retailer embraced digital signage as a cost-effective way to reach their teams, create a more connected experience for frontline workers, share important safety information, and promote career opportunities.
One platform for everyone
Employees don’t need more tools, they need better ones.
While digital signage reinforces must-have messages in physical offices, workplaces need technology that connects the entire organization—its people, places, and spaces—through the communication channels employees use every day.
An employee app and intranet keep the latest information within everyone’s reach. Space reservation makes it very easy to reserve rooms and desks. Contactless visitor management and intuitive guidance ensure people can go where they need to be. When all of these valuable solutions and more are on one platform, employees don’t waste time managing unrelated point products. And as many companies seek to reduce costs and IT teams are forced to do more with less, technology consolidation is one way to achieve that result.
The current reality is that some in the workforce don’t want to go back to the office, ever. And others do. The real winners in the future of work are organizations that can use technology to make siled tools and systems a thing of the past and unify physical and digital workplaces to make work a connected and engaging experience, anywhere. let it happen Because we all deserve a work experience that we love.
Find out how Appspace can help your organization connect its people, places and spaces..