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Book desks and workspaces via AskCody Maps, Outlook or the AskCody mobile app. Lightweight, fast to implement, and easy to maintain. Learn how to book desks and workspaces today
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Desk booking, made easy

Desk booking system built into Microsoft

Whether you want to promote a safe and efficient return to the office (RTO), optimize workspace utilization, or just want to accommodate employee needs and preferences in terms of workspace or desk booking, we're here to help. We've built a frictionless and user-friendly desk booking system to match your needs, no matter if you work hybrid or stay at the office.

AskCody is making it easy for any team member to book a workspace or a desk that meets their needs all inside Outlook, Microsoft 365, or with the AskCody Mobile App. We help you implement and manage desk sharing and activity-based working. 

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One click to book a desk

Book workspaces with Maps

Booking a workspace is a breeze - simply locate your preferred spot, click on it, select your desired time, and you're good to go. Your booking will be saved in AskCody Maps and your Outlook calendar simultaneously.
 
One neat feature of booking workspaces with AskCody is that your calendar status is set to "Free" when using Workspaces, meaning your availability is not impacted in Outlook or Microsoft Teams. This ensures that your availability for other meetings and colleagues remains clear and unobstructed.

By setting your calendar status to "free" with workspace bookings, you avoid any confusion or conflicts with your schedule. Your coworkers can easily see your availability without any interference from desk or workspace reservations.

Experience the convenience and efficiency of booking workspaces with AskCody Maps and streamline your workspace management like never before
 
Book workspaces inside Outlook

Find and book a desk or workspace in Outlook

Smart search makes it easy to find available desks or workspace that meet specific criteria, such as location, floor plan, neighbourhood, proximity to colleagues, or the presence of certain hardware.

The system remembers your latest preferences making your next desk booking even more frictionless. Your desk reservations stay in your Outlook calendar for easy overview and control.

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Desks at your fingertips

Find and book on mobile

Our desk booking app makes desk bookings intuitive and easy to book, no matter where you are, on the fly or just arriving at the Office.
 
Whether you're in the office or working remotely in a hybrid workplace, the desk booking app allows you to easily find and reserve a desk and access all the necessary details right from your smartphone.
 
Working from home anyways? With just a few taps, users can easily modify or cancel their desk bookings in the app, freeing up the workspace for someone else. You have full control from your fingertips.
 
Always stay up to date

Booking dashboards for a quick overview

While walking through your workplace, booking dashboards provide an airport-screen-like overview visualizing meeting activity and desk bookings in real time, by always letting you know:

•  Where you need to go
•  Which desks are available
•  Where you can find your colleagues

Learn more about the possibilities with Dashboards 

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Get started in hours, not months

Fast implementation,
easy maintenance

We're an integrated element of your Microsoft Suite, expanding your existing IT infrastructure and Office productivity platform, Microsoft 365. Therefore, you're up and running in just a few steps.

We've had customers up and running in a matter of hours, depending on the time and resources available.

Are you adding or removing desks? That is done quickly in our management portal. It doesn't require IT skills, so you decide who handles maintenance.

See how your new desk booking solution integrates with your existing tech stack 

 

Understand your real needs

Track desk utilization and learn about trends and booking patterns

Insights for desk bookings show how your desks and meeting rooms are being booked and utilized. Surfacing popular desks or areas that help you make informed decisions based on data rather than gut feeling.

Combine desk bookings with insights on meeting rooms and other resources to streamline your entire workplace and optimize the use of office space.

Insights are built with Microsoft Power BI and available in our AskCody Portal. You can also export the data to your preferred reporting tools or customize data with Excel.

Learn how you can use Workplace Insights 

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Powerful alone – Better together

All you need under one roof

Combine your desk booking solution with our Platform to book meetings, manage meeting services and welcome visitors, and you've got everything under one roof. 
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Book meetings

Find the best place to meet, order meeting services, and invite visitors directly from your familiar interface in Outlook with less manual work and less interactions.

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Manage meetings & services

Get an overview, manage and make changes, and automate repetitive tasks, will give you the certainty, control, and confidence you need to deliver next level business support.

How you manage meetings & services 

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Welcome visitors

Stay in control with an overview and automation of recurring and tedious tasks, which allows you to focus on providing your guests the best possible experience. 

How you welcome visitors 

Common questions about
desk and workspace booking

How does AskCody desk booking work?

AskCody is a meeting and resource management Platform integrated natively with Microsoft 365 and Outlook.

With AskCody you can book desks, workspaces, and meeting rooms efficiently from the familiar interface of Outlook. 

We created a user-friendly interface for employees to book desks, while also allowing administrators to manage desk availability, social distancing, cleaning schedules, and create utilization reports.

What does the desk booking solution cost?

Should you choose to purchase AskCody then you can choose between two bundles. An essential and advanced package.

The essential package contains all the basic needs for handling meetings and desks including modern add-ins in Outlook, Exchange integration, Mobile app, secure SSO access, access to the AskCody admin center, and much more. 

The advanced package contains everything from the essential package while adding important upgrades to handle complex meeting scenarios. This includes service requests in Outlook, cost center management, customized reporting, API integrations, and access to the service portal connecting all your service providers.

The price of desks is based on your choice of solution. 

Check our pricing page to get an updated list of prices.

Is it possible to use Microsoft Single Sign-On (SSO)?

Yes.

You can choose to use Microsoft Azure Single Sign On (SSO) for convenient and safe login to the AskCody Portal. 

There are only a few requirements to setup SSO for your organization. You can read about them here Microsoft Azure Single Sign On

I haven't seen an interactive floorplan, why is that?

AskCody does not support interactive floorplans. And there is a good reason why. 

While interactive floor maps allow employees to locate workspaces, meeting rooms, and other amenities with ease, leading to improved visibility and a better user experience. They also require a significant investment of time and resources to plan, gather accurate data, implement, create a user-friendly interface, update, and maintain.

From speaking with customers, we realized that the time and resources invested to create and maintain an interactive floorplan (especially in a time of uncertainty with people getting back to the office) did not justify the benefits of this solution. 

There are also a few issues companies face in terms of data privacy and security by implementing an interactive floorplan. You can read more about this in our blog: interactive floorplans for your workplace, dream or nightmare?

What about privacy and GDPR?

We take data protection and privacy seriously. This is why we get certified bi-yearly through the ISAE 3000 report in data protection to extend the regulations from GDPR. 

In terms of privacy, we are using the Microsoft environment as our backbone for all we do. This means that organizations can choose different privacy settings, if you for instance would want to anonymize workers. This is primarily used for meetings with external attendees. 

Does this require hardware at the desks?

You don't need any special equipment to use AskCody's desk booking solution. You can manage all bookings using your email or through the AskCody mobile app, which allows you to book desks quickly.

However, we recommend that you label each workspace with a tag, such as "desk 1, 2, 3," etc. so that employees know which desk they should sit at. This will help to ensure that everyone can find and sit at the booked desk.

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