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✔️ Getting started checklist for Officely in MS Teams
✔️ Getting started checklist for Officely in MS Teams

Everything you need to get set up!

Kristina Semcenko avatar
Written by Kristina Semcenko
Updated this week

Welcome to Officely!

Officely makes flexible work, really work. See who is working where each day - whether they are in the office, at home or travelling. Get personalized suggestions for the best office days and arrive to find everything you need—from a desk to your lunch order—ready and waiting.


Step 1 - Setting up your office

Your Office is the location your employees will check in to when they book their desks.

  1. Head to the Officely App

2. Click on Home

3. Head to the Settings

4. Click on Offices

5. Click Manage next to the office that you'd like to manage

6. Here you can add additional office admins, add a floor plan, add office closure dates and manage your overall office settings


Step 2 - Creating neighborhoods/desks

Now you're ready to create your office layout!

  1. Head to Neighborhoods in Office Settings

2. Click on Add New

3. Add the name of your neighbourhood alongside the number of desks available and click create


Step 3 - Managing your Working Statuses

If there are some working statuses that you'd like to remove from the home page, here are the steps to hide them:

  1. Head to Officely Home and click on Settings

2. Head to Account & Billing

3. Click on the dropdown and select the statuses that you'd like to hide


Step 4 - Creating Office Extras

This is a really fun step! If you have some office extras available such as lunches, snacks, or if you allow fluffy pets into the office, you can definitely add this to the Office Extras! Here is how to do that:

  1. Head to Officely Home and click on Settings

2. Click on Offices

3. Click on Manage

4. Click on Extras and begin adding your extras!

5. Once added click create and you're good to go!


Step 5 - Creating Office Announcements

Office announcements are great at communicating anything fun that might be happening in the office! They're also helpful if you have any notices that you might like to share with the team.

  1. Head to Officely Home

2. Click on the three dots on the right and head to Post Announcement

3. Add the date, category and text once done click on create


Step 6 - Turning on Office Broadcast

Office Broadcast is a great feature to bring visibility to you and the team!

Once enabled, it will broadcast a message on a daily basis showing you who will be in the office today or tomorrow.

Not only does Officely Broadcast provide visibility, but it also encourages collaboration. You are more likely to come into the office if you know that your teammates are also going in.

  1. Head to Officely then Settings

2. Head to Offices

3. Click on manage next to the office that you'd like to enable the broadcast for

4. Click on Broadcast then click on Configure

5. Add the channel that you'd like the broadcast to go out to and select whether you'd like to display today's or tomorrow's working statuses


Step 7 - Checking Office Insights

After you've launched Officely and invited your teammates it's time to check out your Insights and get a better understanding of your Office Usage. You can also take a glance and check if anyone hasn't accepted their invitation and resend it to them.

If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to get in touch with the team!

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