Are you still using email to run the office? Then you must be a very patient person. Did you know that you can expect a response to an email within a week? SMS within an hour and chatbot within 2 minutes? These statistics can make anyone rethink the way they communicate with the rest of the workplace and their suppliers.
We live in an age where there are digital tools for everything. And it's more important than ever to make sure your workplace is automated and digitized. In our report on the impact of homeworking on the office, we spoke to Susie Sandberg, Head of People & Work Experience at Eloomi. In the report, Susie discusses how Eloomi's high maturity in digitalization made it "easy" for them to become a remote/hybrid workplace when the pandemic forced us all to work from home.
"Now Eloomi is helping other companies go digital through our platform, and we can certainly see that companies that are just starting to digitize now are not running as smoothly. We also have a lot of customers in the US, and we sense that it's still customary to visit customers physically. We've never done that because all our work is done online, and you can see which companies are suddenly stronger than others when an epidemic hits and everything has to be done online."
In other words, it's important to have digital tools that give your employees the flexibility to work from anywhere. It's a good idea to scour the market for digital tools that are must-haves for the hybrid workplace. This will undoubtedly help retain your current employees, but also recruit new ones, as Henrik Holt Larsen, professor emeritus in human resource management at CBS, also points out in our report"The recipe for the hybrid workplace".
✅ Chat platform with the option to include external partners
There are many to choose from, but at Officeguru we swear by Slack. Here we love that we can have "channels" with our external partners. It provides a common, quick dialog.
✅ Office Management Platform with a shared inbox
An office management platform like Officeguru gives you a shared inbox so that you can communicate with all the office's suppliers. This is e.g. This is also where employees report whether they are coming to the office for lunch or not - and then inform the lunch supplier how many envelopes you need during the week and handle the invoicing.
✅ Creative meetings online
We've been looking at Danish butter.us a lot ourselves. Butter replaces Teams or Google Meet for all collaborative meetings. Here you have virtual whiteboards, polls, post-its and can hold small group meetings in joint meetings, which is brilliant for larger workshop sessions!
✅ Manage responsibilities and deadlines
Every company should have a task/project management tool to keep track of ownership, expectations and deadlines. For us it's Notion, but we also love Jira (and confluence) and Monday.com.