- "Knock knock" – When is this room free?
- Why are there never any available meeting rooms?
- Excuse me, I have booked this room.
High demand on meeting rooms, (experienced) lack of meeting rooms and getting "kicked out", or have to kick out colleagues from booked rooms are commonplace at many workplaces. This is, among other things, because of the increase in information and meetings at today's companies. As a consequence, meeting rooms have become a kind of hard currency for many companies. We at Meetio are, if we may say so ourselves, quite sharp at meeting room management – e.g. by means of meeting room usage statistics*. We know, it doesn't sound particularly sexy, but statistics is a powerful tool to gain insights about the actual usage of the spaces – something that often leads to smaller "aha moments"...
The most common way to schedule meeting rooms is via the calendar in the email client that one's organization is using (e.g. Exchange or Google Calendar). In addition, more and more companies realise the advantages of using so-called room managers such as Meetio Room, as a part of optimizing their room booking systems. Room managers are displays with a software that integrates with the calendar system. They are mounted outside the meeting rooms and helps to bridge the gap between the digital calendars and the physical space by showing the room's status. Moreover they facilitate situations where someone needs a room quickly e.g. for spontaneous meetings or phone calls.
For the sake of simplicity, we'll show an example that illustrates the value of a functioning room booking system:
25% of all scheduled meetings are what we call spontaneous meetings, which means they are booked on the spot – either via a room manager or a phone app. Imagine a company that doesn't use any tools for scheduling spontaneous meetings and that those 25% who need a meeting room ad-hoc then would have to spend at least 5 minutes of their time to find a room – all of a sudden you've lost 5 minutes on 12 meetings (25% of 48 meetings = 12 meetings). In other words, that is 1 hour every day that's being spent on searching the office for meeting rooms. Translate those working hours into money and it escalates quickly...
As you can see, companies have a huge potential of development when it comes to meeting room management, where statistics can be a valuable tool. Our statistics module Meetio Stats is included in our Meetio Room licenses and provides you with everything you'd want to know about your meeting rooms.
Check out how Meetio's solutions can help you calculate your office space need here.
*All numbers presented in the article are based on user data from hundreds of companies using our own statistics software Meetio Stats.
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