smart buildings and workspace lockers
Smart Building Analytics platforms historically have been used primarily to provide data and information on the following areas: energy consumption, preventative maintenance, while also dabbling in occupancy comfort management and sustainability.
Today, an Analytics Platform shows how your spaces are being used and provides insights you can use to develop realistic corporate real estate strategies, optimize your workspace, and make better business decisions. Reduce corporate real estate costs, while benefiting from more engaged and productive employees. Smart buildings can mean personalization and mobility — with offerings, such as location sensors, to improve occupant satisfaction and productivity.
Searching the internet, there are plenty of stats that show the projected growth of Smart Building software and analytics, such as this one:
The global smart building market size was USD 43.64 billion in 2018 is projected to reach USD 109.48 billion by 2026
Regardless of the stat you use or the source of that stat, we believe it is safe to assume that the use of data and Smart building software and analytics will only continue to rise.
smart buildings
reduce mundane tasks, make communication seamless, and create an office environment that is happier and more productive than in legacy office spaces
employees
Increasingly, employees are becoming accustomed to tapping into technology to personalize and control their environment everywhere they go. They map out the quickest route to work, and expertly use apps to control temperatures and sprinkler systems at home while they’re away. It’s natural for these expectations to carry through to the workplace. Smart buildings and the Internet of things (IoT) are enabling employees to have an equally personalized experience at work: using mobile phones to reserve a workstation or locker for the day, walking into rooms that adjust the temperature to their liking, visiting coffee stations that automatically prepare their favorite brew, or connecting wirelessly to a nearby whiteboard to share a presentation.
Compensation and improved benefits are no longer enough to lure the right talent. It’s imperative to start seeking innovative ways to step up your branding and culture to attract and retain employees — and one way to do so is by optimizing the human experience with smart building technologies.
A global study conducted by MIT Sloan Management Review and Deloitte shows that “significant numbers of employees and executives are ready to leave companies that aren‘t keeping pace with digital change.” Thus, as the war for young top talent intensifies, keeping workers connected, engaged and productive provides a strategic advantage.
lockers
How does Metra Modo fit into this workplace movement?
According to Gensler’s 2020 Workplace Survey Personal Storage is #4 on the most important design factors for unassigned seating.
And according to the question posed by the Leesman Index as part of their Workplace Experience Revolution – Do new workplaces work?
Respondent satisfaction (post-occupancy) with the following areas:
- Personal Storage: 53%
- Shared Storage: 44%
- Archival Storage: 34%
As you can tell, the ability to store and keep personal effects safe, secure and organized is a big factor in workplace satisfaction, well-being, and productivity.
We contend that providing lockers and/or storage solutions is NOT enough. In today’s world, you need the data that comes along with it – to ensure your investment in storage is actually being utilized, being utilized well and isn’t causing any unforeseen issues (like capacity, ergonomics, maintenance, etc…)
Data that comes from employee activity is extremely valuable if you want to avoid making costly mistakes following the latest workplace fad. Data collection is not about monitoring individual employees. It is about monitoring workplace effectiveness. This perspective alleviates any important privacy concerns employees may have.
How many times have you heard “Nobody uses the lockers!” or “Our meeting rooms are overbooked”?
Appearances can be deceiving. Opinions can be conflicting. Compromise can be costly. It is important to have a single source of truth.
Surprisingly, this source of truth comes from your employees. Not necessarily what they say, but what they do.
integrate your smart lockers
Metra Modo will integrate and provide data to smart building analytics platforms so that your lockers and storage will be part of the overall efforts to drive productivity, effectiveness, well-being and happiness in the workplace. If your building or company is providing an app for employees that allows for reserving desks, finding parking, purchasing food or dry cleaning services, etc…you can easily add our lockers to the app to allow for locker selection.
