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thanks for the help in my other post! Looking for advice.. so many of our booked meeting rooms go completley unused plus a smaller chunk of desk bookings where people dont show. People book then forget to cancel meanwhile other teams can't find a room. make it make sense?

the tools i been looking at talk about auto release for desk booking and meeting room no show management like book a room and if don't check in within 10 -15 minutes the system releases it. Does it work for people to rebook tho? Like do other people check in and book or just take the empty desk without booking?

Does auto release show someone mid meeting and the room shows "available")?

Have your ghost bookings gone down?

Looking for recs AND policy ideas. I am tired of being the room police and ghost hunter

hey everyone. I’m interested to know if anyone is using Growth hub from OfficeRnD? I keep seeing it pop up in the OfficeRnD updates and I am trying to figure out if it is worth it.

I am also interested in how it handles the checkout process since that is usually where we lose people.

Please let me know. I’m hoping to get more insight about it or alternatives

years into managing this office and we switched when we downsized and on paper it made perfect sense - fewer desks than people, hybrid schedule, book what you need and some people sit at the same desk every day but act surprised when someone else "took their spot". Other people don't book at all and show up and sit. The desk reservation spreadsheet I made isnt working because team thinks it's optional. we need a desk booking software but every time  leadership says "is the spreadsheet not working" and I have to find new words for no. If you've moved from spreadsheets to office software did it help or did people complain a new system? don't know if the problem is the tool or the people.

Feel like office managers do a ton of invisible work that nobody notices til something breaks. If the office is running smoothly nobody thinks about it. But the second something goes wrong suddenly everyone cares.

Curious if office managers get much respect/recognition at your workplace or if this is pretty common everywhere..

how do teams figure out how many meeting rooms an office needs? hybrid work is making this way harder to predict (or maybe I’m losing something, not sure). some days the rooms are completely empty, other days they’re all booked before lunch because everyone came in.

Using a 50 person office as an exmple: is there an ideal amount of rooms to have? Considering that most of these people come to the office at least twice a week.