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Departments are used in many different ways throughout your OfficeSpace system. Tracking departments can help you do multiple tasks, from using the Planning Platform tools to build strategies for optimizing your spaces, to setting restrictions on where your employees can sit and book desks within your offices. Check out the Introduction to Designations article for more information on assigning and managing your department designations.
Using stack plans, you can easily change the placement of your departments across your facility. They allow you to quickly visualize the occupancy across your floors, see how your workplace is distributed among your departments, and give you the information you need to best optimize your space. For more information on how departments are used in stack plans, check out the
Stack Plans article.
With desk booking restrictions, you are able to limit the employees who can book specific desks to a set department, allowing you to group your departments together in your workspaces. You have the flexibility to create custom restrictions to accommodate your company's needs, such as restricting bookings to a set list of departments, rather than just one. For more information on desk booking restrictions, check out the
Managing Desk Booking Restrictions article.
The Stats Panel uses information on your departments to give you insights into your occupancy. The Occupants and Seats charts provide you information on the number of occupants and the number of seats currently within your workspaces. These charts allow you to quickly learn how many of your occupants and how many of your seats belong to each of your departments. For more information, check out the
Introduction to Stats Panel article.
Neighborhoods can also be utilized to organize your floor plans by departments. You are able to create member rules for a Neighborhood that will automatically make all employees in the same Department members of the same Neighborhood. Designated Neighborhood Captains can create seating arrangements based on department membership, and they can allow department employees to book desks in their Neighborhood. For more information on member matching rules, check out the
Managing Your Neighborhoods article.
Various reports within OfficeSpace also provide you with insights into your workplace. Using the Insights Hub, you can find valuable data regarding workplace metrics, from how much of your space is utilized by your departments to your seating needs based on your departments. Check out the
Introduction to Insights Hub article for more information.
