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Proposition value, issues we're solving - Today for Google Workspace

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To help you explain all the values brought by Today to your leads, we've tried to put in this certification all information needed.

Today is the first brick of Comeen Workplace, it is the most used feature of our solution.

As for our three other features, our office management system benefits from the most advanced integration yet with Google Workspace environment. πŸ₯‡

As a valued partner of Google Cloud and Chrome Enterprise, we are always one step ahead in offering the best integrated solution. We make sure we already answer to Google Workspace users' future needs by creating crucial non-existent functionalities. πŸš€

Current context

Since hybrid work model has been implemented by more and more companies, everyone is trying to find a way to manage office attendance and hot desk booking.

On the employees side, we need a tool to easily plan in-office days according to colleagues, projects and needs. And we have to make sure everyone can get a desk and the equipments they need.

On the company side, we need a tool to manage employees presences and to monitor building occupancy by guaranteeing that everyone will have a place and the required equipment if they choose to go to the office on a specific day.

To answer this need, companies all around the world have been creating Google Sheet files to manage office attendance.

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Potential counter argument

A feedback you can get from potential leads when you're presenting Today is the fact that Google Workspace has introduced the Working Location feature.
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Google Calendar Working Location feature is great, it provides a great user experience and it's super easy to use.

The downside of this feature is that it's only a visual feature, and it doesn't come with building capacity management, office attendance rules (min/max days at the office), number of seats left, desk & options booking, and more.

It'll be enough for small teams but it won't suit the needs of a company with more than hundred employees.

We're working closely with Google Workspace team to be soon connected to the Google Calendar Working Location feature. They just opened their API but we will be the first connected to it.

Common beliefs and our vision

Usually, people link office attendance management and desk booking.

They are two different things but they can be implemented at the same time by a company.

Desk booking can't really work without office attendance management, while office attendance management won't necessarily include desk booking.

Desk booking is implemented on specific areas while office attendance management is general and applied to all employees.

Desk booking is generally implemented on an entire building, a floor or only an area (a part of a floor). Desk booking is needed when a place can't welcome everyone at the same time.

One of the companies' challenges are that spaces must be flexible in providing bookable spaces such as ‍individual desks or specific equipment and to offer the same work experience, whether you work in the office or remotely.

Today provides both features and more. Our tool is designed to support both employees and managers which is why we propose an employee app and an administration dashboard both integrated with Google.

We create a seamless experience between people and workplaces. Today helps companies and their employees move to hybrid work according to their situation and needs.

This is why two versions of Today exist :

Today Starter :

Today Business

  • Plan in-office days

  • Manage your teammates

  • See teammates planning

  • Define recurring presences

  • Manage notifications settings

  • Manage favorite location

  • Check-in

All Starter plan options +

  • Book a desk

  • Define equipment to find the right desk (double screen, next to a window, etc.)

  • Book a desk next to someone

  • Visualize where your desk is located on a map

  • Locate your teammates on a map

  • Custom presence rules

  • Book extra options

  • Book for someone else

On the one hand, we propose an employee App integrated in the tools already used by employees: Google Calendar, Gmail and Slack.

Users applications

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Available features by tool:

Add-on Google for Calendar and Gmail

Google Chatbot

Slack Application

Plan in-office days

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Receive notifications

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Manage your teammates

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See teammates planning

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Check-in / Check out

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Cancel a presence

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Book a desk

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Select desks' equipments

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Book a desk next to someone

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Book extra options

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In addition to this tool, we provide users with a dedicated interface called My Comeen that completes our integrated solution.

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My Comeen gathers the functionalities that had to be externalised in order to ensure the best user experience - keeping simple the existing tools and adding crucial features.

My Comeen functionalities :

  • Check-in/check-out

  • Cancel a presence

  • Manage your teammates

  • See teammates planning

  • Define recurring presences

  • Manage notifications settings

  • Manage favorite location

  • Visualize where your desk is located on a map

  • Locate your desk

  • Locate your teammates on a map

  • Book for someone else

Administration dashboard

On the other hand, we propose an administration dashboard on which you can configure your company: create your buildings, import your users, synchronize your meeting rooms, define your hybrid office rules.

This part of Comeen Workplace also permits you to have presence gauges, to configure office extras and to get data on your users activity.

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Today offers an advanced integration with Google Workspace. You can import your buildings if they already exist in the Google Admin console, synchronize your users (this allows you to automatically create a Today account for your new collaborators or to delete those who have left the company), synchronize your meeting rooms.

Comeen's added values

What Comeen brings on employees side:

  • Find the right days to come to the office
    β†’ simplify presence declaration and improve employee experience

  • See easily who’s coming to the office and when
    β†’ facilitate working collaborations and professional relations

  • Find an available desk and book it with or without equipments (dual screen, next to a window,...)
    β†’ employees are assured to find a seat and the possible equipments they need

  • Select and book extra options such as a parking lot, a locker, etc
    β†’ employees can book options others than desks in order to improve their in-office experience

  • Access to a floorplan locating personnal desk and colleagues
    β†’ clarify and make accessible clue information

  • Set up preferences in terms of locations and recurences
    β†’ preconfiguration of favorite location and recurring presences in order to automate the next weeks' schedule

  • Select a seat in the area preconfigured by the manager
    β†’ facilitates the user experience and the office management

  • Ask to seat next to your colleagues and book a desk for someone else
    β†’ fluidify team work and projects

What Comeen brings on manager/company side:

  • Manage building occupancy and optimize it’s usage
    β†’ maintain maximum building efficiency and security to avoid additional costs and risks

  • Fluidify internal relations
    β†’ get the best of your employees by offering them a great experience on site and remotely

  • Easy to implement and to use
    β†’ It takes approximately 2 hours to set up Comeen and a few minutes to deploy it on hundreds of people while the tool is user-friendly and intuitive

  • No employee training needed
    β†’ immediate familiarity with the software means less time dedicated to its use and implementation

  • This tool is adaptable to any employee need (in-office, remote, flex worker)
    β†’ every employee can manage their presences and their schedule can be handled by managers with Comeen

  • Customize presence rules and locations preferences
    β†’ optimize building usage and employees schedule

  • Provision of statistics on attendance and building capacity
    β†’ providing clear data exploitable by HR teams for several matters (insurance, remote equipments, etc)

We’re available in:

  • English

  • French

  • Spanish

  • Portuguese

  • German

  • Polish

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