The Newest Tech Workplace Trend

Visitor management tools are the new hot trend in workplace technology. These platforms uses room occupancy sensors to determine meeting space availability and help to schedule and coordinate meetings. It is the latest in a series of technology tools coming to workspaces to promote efficiency and simplicity in the workplace. To find out more about this trend, we sat down with Eric Lockwood, Eric Lockwood, business development executive at Tangram Technology, who is an expert in workplace technology integration. Here, he tells us about this new trends, the benefits and how companies should approach technology integration to meet their needs.

GlobeSt.com: You have talked about the importance of technology design. What are new technologies that you are seeing enter the workplace?

Eric Lockwood: What is new are the emerging, complete “visitor management” platforms that extend basic room scheduling functionality to include supplemental features such as self-check-in via a mobile app or interactive kiosk, integration with building access control systems—so the same proximity card can be used to access the suite and reserve a room on the fly—wayfinding to help a visitor find their scheduled meeting location, digital signage to display all room schedules and notices for the day, and the ability to reserve individual desks in an open hoteling or “hot desking” environment. Some platforms additionally include the ability to search for and reserve rooms or desks based on attributes such as location, by floor, building, site, country, seat count and audiovisual capabilities.