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Learn some of the most common hybrid work challenges that companies are grappling with and how to solve them.

People have new expectations for how they work, and organizations must adapt to meet them.

Looking for a workplace catering solution? Cater2.me + Envoy is a simple and elegant way to take workplace experience to the next level.

We’re thrilled to announce that Envoy Desks is officially out of beta and full of new features for hybrid workplaces

Hear from leaders from technology platforms Butlr and OnSolve on challenges companies face as they reopen their workplaces.

What’s this summer’s hottest workplace accessory? No, not a company-branded mask (those are so 2020). It’s your hot desk.

Learn how Brits and Americans feel about returning to workplaces, and how companies might cater their plans to each group.

The flexibility, efficiency, and employee happiness generated by a hybrid work environment is only possible with the right technology in place.

We analyzed Envoy’s Desks platform data of over 225,000 desk bookings to provide workplace teams insight into how employees are using the workplace.

We surveyed 1,000 UK employees about experiencing burnout, workplace safety concerns, and attitudes toward hybrid work.

The key to creating a workplace that empowers your people in a hybrid work environment? Flexibility. Flexible workplaces help people find the optimal environment for them based on their specific needs.

We asked HR leaders and small business owners for their best advice on how to onboard hybrid employees.

Hear from industry leaders on how their organizations are thinking about COVID testing, vaccinations, employee well-being, and the future of work.

Did you know 34% of U.S. jobs can be performed at home? Let’s talk about the rise of virtual work and the advantages and disadvantages of a virtual office.

Australia is at the vanguard of worldwide efforts to reopen offices. Hear from webinar panelists on their workplace reopening plans for a hybrid work model.

Workplace experience managers wear many hats. We’ll go over the ones that are most important in a hybrid work environment and how to lean into these areas of responsibility.

What is a hybrid meeting? When in-person and virtual employees gather together, you’ll want an inclusive, specialized hybrid meeting solution for your office.

In a new study, we analyzed over 20 million workplace entries over the past year. Check out return-to-work trends and learn how close organizations are to reaching their workplace capacities.

Introducing new ways to use Envoy to help your team coordinate when and how they will work together.

Workplace teams are juggling more than they were before the pandemic. We’ll show you how to use employee personas to maximize your team’s output and create a workplace where every employee can flourish.

Do you want a flexible work environment? The benefits of a hybrid office are abundant. Be mindful of these 5 factors when establishing your hybrid workplace.

We all know to reduce, reuse, and recycle, but what are some other specific ways to make your office green? In honor of Earth Day, we're offering 12 actionable steps towards office sustainability.

The workplace should be a center for people to move their work forward. Here’s how to unblock your people from the stuff that prevents them from churning out their best work.

We sat down with Lionsgate’s Chief Administrative Officer, Heather Somaini, to pick her brain about how to enable a hybrid workforce.

Learn how hybrid work changes the workplace experience, as well as how your team can keep people engaged, productive, and encouraged to go into the workplace.

In this post, we’ll show you how to get feedback on your workplace experience that’ll help your team design an experience that engages, supports, and retains your people.

Envoy’s workplace technology manager Dana Stocking shares his tips on how to set up hot desking to create a more flexible workplace.

A lot has changed over the last year. To keep companies safe and prevent costly damage and threats to business continuity, security teams need to understand how the workplace will be different post-pandemic.

As part of the “Building the hybrid workplace” webinar series, we heard from Zynga’s global head of physical security Brian Schmidt about Zynga’s approach to safety and security for hybrid work.

Remote meeting etiquette can be the difference in making your virtual team meetings effective, starting with good preparation.

Reopening your workplace? There are two things you can’t afford to overlook: health and safety. Check out five insightful health and safety stats to know before welcoming people back.

For many companies, the jury is still out on whether to adopt hybrid work. The good news is, employers and employees can both win with the right hybrid work model.

How can employees (and workplace teams) plan out the hybrid workweek?

We surveyed 1,000 workers to understand how the workplace experience needs to change.

Practicing office etiquette in the workplace creates an environment where employees feel respected, and conflict rates are low.

Need help improving your security for hybrid work? Learn to assess how your company’s programs are performing so you can adapt and reduce risks.

Preparing your security for flexible work? Set priorities so your team can concentrate on the work that’ll have the biggest impact.

Leaders from Density, Openpath, and Bindle discuss how integrations can help keep teams safe, connected, and productive in a hybrid work model.

Performing a security assessment will help you uncover gaps in your organization’s security programs and prioritize improvements.

In a hybrid workplace, leaders need to help employees stay connected and committed to their teams. Learn how to improve employee engagement here.

Now’s the time to reinvent the workplace for hybrid work. How? With a connected workplace platform.

Companies need to re-architect the workplace experience for flexible work. Here are the three areas they should lean into to be successful.

Designing an office layout for hybrid work involves creating workspaces for both collaborative and private work.

Introducing new technology to employees can be hard. With the right approach, you can win the hearts of even the most skeptical employees.

Assessing your technology ecosystem is the first step to securing it. Learn how to conduct an assessment in a few simple steps.

Learn what a “connected workplace” is, why it matters, and some integrations that can help you achieve connection.

How much office space does your business need? Let’s look at this question from a mathematical perspective.

To move your workplace strategy forward, you need cross-functional alignment and a flexible change management plan.

With the right plan in place, your organization can prepare for any workplace threat. Here are the five steps to creating a workplace preparedness strategy.

Here are four benefits of having a preparedness strategy for any workplace threat or incident.

What goes into providing a phenomenal workplace experience? How does experience affect engagement? We’ll explain the role of a workplace experience manager.

To scale your workplace efforts your team, starting from the very top, needs to align on strategy and have an “all-in” approach to executing it.

Workplace safety has new meaning after a year like 2020. Not only for employees, but for visitors as well. Now is the time to upgrade your visitor safety policy for 2021.

As you prepare for 2021, discover the most loved features that came to Envoy dashboards this year—thanks to your help.

Workplace neighborhoods are areas of an office dedicated to specific departments, functions, or activity types.

Finding the right balance between workplace health and safety and people’s privacy has never been more essential.

Social distancing requires more than moving desks six feet apart or blocking off every other seat. Here's your six step plan to set up socially distant seating from the experts at Density.

Envoy Desks is a hot desking solution specifically designed to help companies adjust their workplace during COVID-19 and beyond.

It’s not impossible for organizations to encourage safe social behavior at work. It just takes diligence and data—and a plan. The best place to start is in your workplace common areas.

They may not be ready to jump 100% back into the office now, but they want to go back if they haven’t returned already.

How long before a widespread return to the workplace remains to be seen. Some estimates say that only twelve percent of the workforce is back to offices. Will offices ever be the same?

The experts at Density share how workplace teams can use digital signage to clearly communicate changes and new expectations to employees returning to the workplace.

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, keeping employees safe at work now takes far more planning and coordination than it used to.

We’re excited to announce a new partnership with Salesforce to help you face the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Whether your workplace never closed or reopens soon, you’ve sensed that employees worry about going to work each day.

Hot desking is a flexible setting arrangement where employees can reserve a desk for the day. If this concept is new to you, you’ve come to the right place. We’re going to break down what hot desking is—and why your office needs it now.

When regulations are trying to keep up with the rapidly changing environment caused by COVID-19, how can HR be sure they're doing everything they can to keep employee information confidential and employees safe? The Envoy HR team has three suggestions for how to get ahead of employee privacy concerns.

We commissioned Wakefield Research to survey 1,000 U.S. full and part-time employees to gauge how they feel about returning to their workplaces. We found that most people (73%) are worried about returning, yet 94% want to spend at least one day a week in their office.

More than 6,000 companies are utilizing Envoy Protect and - as of this week - we've helped facilitate more than one million safe returns to work. These teams are researching therapies for COVID, keeping food on our shelves, and educating our youth. And that’s just the start.

Since May over 5,000 workplaces have used Envoy Protect to power one million safe returns to the workplace. Today we’re proud to announce that Protect is out of beta and full of new features!

Before the pandemic, companies generally fell into one of two buckets: remote-first or office-first. But now there’s a newer bucket that’s emerging: hybrid work. Sitting somewhere in the middle, hybrid work empowers employees to choose whether they go into an office or not.

We've identified the top four questions Envoy customers ask in their health checks, then discuss why these questions are important and how they correspond to CDC and ADA guidelines.

Before the pandemic, touchless technology was a cool feature. Now, touchless solutions have gone from nice-to-have, to essential in keeping people safe at work.

Learn how to keep your employees and visitors safe by adding a workplace health questionnaire to your registration process.

Envoy has released new data-rich reports and features that help workplace leaders make more confident decisions to welcome employees to your office safely.

Social distancing is an essential part of returning to work safely in the COVID-19 age. But making sure people are actually following your guidelines is a different story. That’s where capacity management technology comes in.

Whether your workplace is open or you're planning how to open your doors, take note of these industry leaders’ tips on protecting your employees from COVID-19.

Finding and incorporating new technology into your workplace is no easy feat. There seems to be a glut of information, resources, and solutions, making the experience seem especially daunting. Not only do you need to find the solution, but you need to do so without having buyer’s remorse later.

The CDC has recommended that employers use temperature screening to help slow the spread of COVID-19. But what temperature screening method is right for your business?

Nicole Persaud, Head of Safety and Security at Samsara, answers popular return to work questions and provides insights on how to reopen the office during a global pandemic.

Why invest in employee and visitor systems that are built for "care?" Industry expert Lee Odess suggests that the underlying reasons include trust, happiness and return on investment.

Earlier this year, Envoy unveiled a refreshed logo, as part of a larger repositioning effort. Today, we’re here to walk through its change and the reasons behind it.

With offices around the world gearing up to reopen amid a global pandemic, workplace leaders are searching for solutions to help keep their employees and their spaces safe. Here are 10 types of tools you need to keep your workplace safe during COVID-19.

Here's how Envoy handled employee communications around returning to the office during the coronavirus pandemic.

You can take an active role to prevent the spread of COVID-19 among your employees by creating a contact tracing program within your offices. Here’s how to build a plan that keeps your employees healthy, protects their privacy, and saves your team time.

Access control industry expert Lee Odess explains why access control and visitor management systems cannot remain isolated utilities. In the end, access control and visitor management systems will become features of a much broader digital building operating system.

In May we launched Envoy Protect to a small group of customers in a closed beta. In just thirty days over 2,000 companies have signed up for the program - a response beyond our wildest expectations. Today, we’re excited to share updates on the product and how Envoy intends to support the return to the workplace.

To keep up with the new rules of welcoming employees to the office, you’ll have to manage how many employees enter your space each day. Wrestling with how to do that? We've got some advice for you!

There's a lot you can do before your employees and guests arrive to make the experience frictionless. Here are 6 steps you should be taking to create a touchless entrance to your workplace.

The return to the workplace is happening. Our platform data shows a state by-state approach with some bringing people back quickly and others taking a more measured approach. Our data team breaks down the trends.