How to efficiently manage the parking and parking spaces of our office?

by | Mar 10, 2023 | Opinion articles

An important aspect today with the emergence of hybrid work is the management of office parking spaces. Facilitating a true collaborative hybrid work model, both remote and in-person, has become a priority in companies. And for that it’s necessary to be able to optimize the capacity, the degree of occupancy and the availability of the different workspaces.

 

Parking management in the era of hybrid work

For many years, office parking spaces were assigned to a single person. But today, parking spaces, like workstations or meeting rooms, are considered hybrid elements that can be reserved by different users and at different times.

 

The main problem that companies usually face with this type of corporate resource is that in most cases there is a great difference between the number of places available compared to the total volume of employees who come to work in the office. Parking spaces are usually a limited resource, and companies need to be able to optimize the degree of occupancy and availability of spaces for employees who work in person. A good vehicle parking control program would allow maximum use of these resources.

 

 

parking control software

 

 

KALENA: A solution for optimizing corporate parking

The KALENA development team improved our Space Manager by implementing a pre-booking system with fair lottery allocation. This system takes into account various parameters for reserving a parking space for an employee, such as the number of previous reservations and the appropriate use of concessions for each user in their previous reservations.

 

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It is also possible to manage users, permissions and roles to establish criteria for automatic assignment of places to certain roles and profiles, establish permissions to reserve certain places, and allow users with a fixed place to make it available to the rest of the employees when they do not have it. use for teleworking or vacations.

 

Furthermore, the combination of this system with the integration of the control of parking access barriers would allow vehicles with a space granted to automatically access the building, and also check-in the parking lot, showing visibility on the availability of parking. building parking spaces. This type of solutions is integrated with automatic opening devices and building access control with identification, for example, vehicle entry with license plate reading by LPR camera, user identification card or QR codes, allowing companies to manage your parking and vehicle parking areas in a flexible, easy and effective way, and facilitate access to the offices for your employees.

 

In short, with software solutions like KALENA for parking control, we can efficiently manage parking spaces for employees or for scheduled visits to our offices. And more and more companies are taking advantage of these features to manage parking space reservations in a centralized and fair manner for all their employees, thanks to our car parking software.

 

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