Enterprise-grade flexible desk booking software

Opt for a desk booking system that fits your tech stack perfectly. You set the rules, we apply your branding, and your team enjoys seamless desk reservations from anywhere.

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Desk booking in 3 steps

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Explore Available Desks

Browse through the map view and choose your preferred desk, date, and time hassle-free.

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Reserve Your Desk

Filter desks based on preferences and select the perfect spot that suits your needs.

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Check-In & Enjoy

Easily check-in upon arrival and start your productive day with comfort and ease.

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More thanyour normal desk booking app

We go beyond hot desking, flexible desk booking, and desk hoteling. In GemEx you can create an environment that fosters collaboration and connection. That’s why with our easy-to-use platform, teams can seamlessly coordinate their workweek.

Interactive Floorplans

Visualise available desks and collaborative areas at a glance, and find your perfect spot.

Neighbourhoods

Assign office areas to specific departments to optimise collaboration.

Automated Bookings

Automated desk booking check-ins, with automatic bumping for unclaimed bookings.

Priority Bookings

Allow certain teams first access to booking or assign certain desks to specifc colleagues with booking rules.

Colleague Booking

Supply teams with the information they need to book desks right next to each other.

Wayfinding

Be guided you to your desk and eliminate time wasted searching for your workspace.

Filter Desks

Whether it’s a quiet corner, a standing desk, find a desk tailored to your individual needs.

Desk Analytics

Gain valuable data on desk usage patterns and booking behaviour. Compare and contrast across your entire real estate portfolio.

Coordinate in-office days

  • See colleagues’ in-office days to plan ahead
  • Get instant updates on desk availability and cancellations
  • Book next to your favourite colleagues for collaboration
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Hybrid working is that easy

Goodbye to seperate reservations

Secure your desk and parking spot simultaneously for a smooth transition from commute to office. You can configure any additional services you need—whether it’s a parking spot, meeting room, locker, or more—all in one simple booking.

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Automate repeat bookings

Ensure your favorite desk, parking spot, or services are always reserved for you. Schedule recurring reservations—daily, weekly, or monthly—with just a few clicks, and have your spaces ready when you need them. 

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Shape your workspace your way

With GemEx Engine® Platform, the admin side of the desk booking system, booking administrators have powerful tools at their disposal for managing workspaces efficiently.

Smart resource management

FM Teams can designate resources and set min/max desk booking durations for fair resource distribution or make restrictions for maintenance or peak hours, ensuring availability for essential team activities.

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Customised Workspace

Admins and FM teams can create bookings for specific resources within categories, such as work pods or standing desks, tailoring reservations to meet your team’s unique tasks and preferences.

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Supercharge your desk booking system

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Employee Communications

Keep staff informed with push notification content for the latest company updates. Multi-lingual content can be assigned to certain buildings, floors, rooms or even workspaces.

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Employee Feedback
Get employee feedback on meeting rooms and other workspaces to measure and improve service success.
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Order Food & Drink
Integrate with catering facilities to order and pay then collect or have your food and drinks delivered.
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Office Building Access

Integrate the app with Building Access Control system for touchless entry into secure areas.

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Help Desk Integration

Integrate with existing help desk/ticketing systems for efficient facilities management.

FAQs

What is a desk booking system?
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Software that allows employees to reserve desk spaces. This can be automated or on an approval basis. How flexible the system is depends on the provider.

How does GemEx desk booking work?
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GemEx can be configured in many ways to suit your business. Employees can book desks through their employee app or web app. Depending on the booking rules you apply this can include approvals, certain spaces for certain teams and much more. Check-in, no-show autobumps and other interactive floor maps are also available.

What is the best desk booking strategy?
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With GemEx you get the flexibility to use the strategy that fits your business.

GemEx can accomodate hot desking for first come, first served allocation, desk hotelling for specific durations and times, activity based workspaces, neighbourhood or team zones or even assigned seating. Use one or more strategies to create the right fit for how your people work best.

What essential features do I need?
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We've worked with enterprise clients across the globe and have an expansive features list but the core features we've seen deliver successful desk booking processes are of course:

  • Mobile + web access
  • Interactive floorplans
  • Auto-bump for ghost bookings
  • Check-ins
  • Calendar Integrations

What are the benefits of desk booking?
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The big 3 benefits are:

  1. Cost savigs from efficienct management of resources
  2. Increase in productivity for teams
  3. Improved collaboration [if you have Colleague finder features like GemEx]

Is GemEx scalable?
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Absolutely! Our cloud-based software can suit offices in a few locations to a global world-wide rollout.

How do I establish a desk booking system?
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To launch a desk booking system you'll need to establish your scope, employee and office space needs. Work with a cross-department team including IT, HR and Facilities to determine timelines and get regular employee feedback. Our team will work with you to help you through the process of implementing your system.