Desk, room & parking booking
How this is scored
What can be booked and how easily: desks, meeting rooms, parking spaces and other resources (lockers, equipment, EV chargers), interactive floor plans per site and floor, desk attributes (monitor, standing desk, accessibility), neighbourhoods and zones, hot and assigned desks, recurring and multi-day bookings, booking for colleagues and guests, room booking synced both ways with Microsoft 365 or Google calendars, room displays, booking from the web, mobile apps, Outlook, Microsoft Teams and Slack, and several languages.
0 — Books nothing for an organisation's own staff; a customer appointment tool or a facility system without self-service booking.
3 — Desks can be booked from a list or a simple plan in a web app; rooms, parking, mobile apps and calendar integration are basic or not described.
5 — Desks, rooms and parking on interactive floor plans for several sites and floors, desk attributes and assigned desks, recurring bookings, booking on behalf of colleagues, mobile apps, room bookings synced with Microsoft 365 or Google calendars, and booking from Microsoft Teams or Slack.
8 — Neighbourhoods and zones per team, an Outlook add-in that books a room and a desk together, room displays with check-in, guest and visitor bookings linked to the host's desk, resources such as lockers and EV chargers, floor plans imported from CAD or drawn in an editor, accessibility of the apps stated, and the product in German and other languages.
10 — Booking that runs a multi-country estate: every resource type above on one plan, wayfinding to the booked desk, booking from every channel with parity documented, catering and equipment with the room, and the accessibility of web and apps documented to WCAG 2.1 AA.
The Office Manager
Desks, meeting rooms and each of our twelve parking spots sit on an interactive 3D plan we can draw ourselves in the Map Designer, with every spot carrying properties like wallbox or barrier-free, and people book from the web, Outlook, Microsoft Teams and native iOS and Android apps with two-way sync to Microsoft 365 and Google calendars. Booking for colleagues and guests, recurring series, catering add-ons on rooms and twenty-eight languages are all documented. I found no public information on booking from Slack, on team neighbourhoods, or on a stated accessibility standard for the apps. 2 3 5 6 9 15 19