Optimizing Meeting Rooms for Maximum Usability

A common complaint from employees is that there are not enough meeting room spaces available in the workplace. In fact, the problem usually isn’t the number of rooms, but how they are being booked and subsequently used (or not used). Without visibility into the data, it is difficult to truly know how and when meeting rooms are used.

FMS:Analytics helps to bring actual meeting room data into focus so that you can be on your way to right sizing the collaboration space that meets your business needs.

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Gain Visibility

See how many employees are using your meeting rooms and how frequently to understand demand.

Optimize Room Use

Based on demand for meeting rooms, make adjustments to help employees get the most out of these spaces.

Free Up Rooms

Utilize sensor technology to automatically free up rooms on the scheduler if they’re booked but not in use.

Track Analytics

With intuitive dashboards and reporting, understand your meeting room trends to plan effective redesigns.

Right-Sizing Meeting Room Spaces

Does your organization have the correct number and type of collaborative meeting room spaces? FMS:Analytics can combine data from room panels, Outlook/Exchange, booking systems, and sensors to report accurately on how your meeting rooms are used. It not only reports on whether the room was occupied, but it can pair with sensors to collect the number of people who attended the meeting.

This data provides critical visibility into the number of people using the meeting spaces and enables you to report on actual occupancy versus capacity of the rooms. With these tools, you can better see the size and number of meeting rooms needed for the organization and gives you an opportunity to make changes that better support the demand.

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Meeting Room Efficiency & Planning

With sensor data in place, you can track how meeting rooms are being used by analyzing planned versus actual meeting length and planned versus actual participant count. With this reporting, you can help each department plan better for their meeting room needs and foster better collaboration among your teams. And when you have an accurate understanding of the demand for meeting spaces, you can plan for future designs and renovations that will best support your business.

It is unfortunate to see a meeting room dark and empty while remaining booked. Often, meeting room bookings never get canceled, even when the actual meeting is canceled, leading to sites sitting unused while others struggle to find an available room to meet. With FMS:Analytics, sensors in the room can be set to automatically correct this by freeing up room bookings whenever a meeting time starts, but nobody enters the room. They can also be set to end meeting room times early if no activity is detected after a given time. FMS:Analytics even shows when meeting rooms are not booked, but occupied anyway, to show actual meeting room use regardless of a reservation.

Room booking analytics show you how many people on average use a room of a given capacity, which can help plan for the correct capacity in the future. It also helps you understand the actual utilization of your meeting rooms to help ensure your organization has the right amount of space your employees need. It can be challenging to try and put this data together and analyze it yourself – fortunately, FMS:Analytics, with its reports and dashboards, helps you make better informed decisions about these costly meeting room areas.

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