WeWork has announced the official launch of WeWork Workplace, a new space management solution created in collaboration with Yardi, a provider of real estate software. WeWork Workplace will provide businesses with a universal platform to manage office space inventory, improve the employee experience, and optimize space through insights and analytics.
The popularity of remote work and hybrid models, which has dramatically accelerated in the wake of the pandemic, has created new opportunities for employers and employees to fundamentally rethink the workplace and how we engage with it. WeWork Workplace combines space, asset and people management capabilities, taking the guesswork out of designing a strategic working model, by providing actionable data to inform decision making in real time.
As a result, the software aims to help employers reduce real estate costs, while allowing employees to engage more purposefully in the spaces they choose and create more rewarding physical connections.
«Today’s companies need to find solutions to make the flexible working model a reality, optimizing their spaces without sacrificing the culture, collaboration and productivity which is given in person. That is what we want to offer with WeWork Workplace”said Scott Morey, President of Technology and Innovation at WeWork. «By combining our advantages in scale, speed, and access to flexible space with Yardi’s industry-leading technology and software capabilities, WeWork Workplace is not just about reserving office space or performing back-of-house analytics, it’s about to solve a dynamic and constantly changing future of work.”
A comprehensive solution
WeWork Workplace combines the necessary capabilities, in one place, to help build, manage and evolve any office space strategy. The software claims to help companies to:
- Improve the employee experience across the portfolio. Dynamic and collaborative features – interactive floor plans, shift booking functions, overflow booking automation, visit management, company announcements and calendar integration – have been integrated to make office engagement more purposeful and efficient .
- Manage and optimize all spaces, regardless of asset type or geographic location. Universal portfolio management – for all asset types – enables usage-based office space strategies. Create user groups, space zones, and manage capacity and overflow.
- Future real estate strategies with practical information. Make decisions with confidence thanks to access to more robust and accurate data. Instantly view daily and building-level data, or view trends over time, such as booking and occupancy ratios, including the ability to sort by property type.
- Designed to offer a seamless office experience to businesses of all sizes, By helping them optimize their spaces for collaboration and innovation, WeWork Workplace is perfectly positioned to enable companies and their employees to continually adapt to a flexible world of work.
WeWork Workplace, currently available in the US and UK, will expand to the rest of the world, including Spain, by the end of the year.
