💡 This is part two of setting up your Neighborhoods and Desks. If you haven't yet read part one then please click here for a 'Step-by-Step' guide to setting up your desks.

Creating a hot-desking area works well if your employees don't need to allocate a desk. They just simply need to book into the office and on arrival choose their desk.

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💡 If there is just one neighborhood created for the entire office then the employee's will automatically be booked into hot-desks when clicking on Office Location without having to specify what area of the office they are booking into

The neighborhood concept works well if your teams sit together in a specific area of the office and at a specific bank of desks.
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This could be categorized as a Sales (neighborhood) or a Product (Neighborhood) Collaboration space etc. Designing the neighborhoods/bank of desks ensures that the teams are seated together.

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You can also create assigned desks. This works well if your employees need to be able to book into a specific desk in the office. Or if you need to assign specific desks to specific people.
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Creating neighborhoods, specific desks, and hot desks. This ensures you get the best of all options.
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Note: If it works for your organization, we really encourage you to use Neighborhoods (option 2). It makes it much easier for your team to book into the office (rather than having to select from many desk options) and as result, means that more employees will use Officely.

To save your team time they can enable 1-click bookings:

Step 1:
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Head to Officely App Home > Go to... > All settings > Your preferences > Click on Configure One Click bookings

Step 2:

Tick the box to switch on one-click bookings
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Step 3:

Add your preferred neighborhood or multiple neighborhoods, click save and you're good to go!

Read next: how to invite your team.

Need more help? Reach out to our team who's more than happy to help!