Subscribe
Sign in
Anywell Workplace Experience Platform â Manage hybrid work facilities, teams, & employee experience
anywell offers office utilization, workspace booking, and team collaboration using existing tools. anywell eliminates office ghost towns, drives employees to meet at the office, and gives leadership an accurate picture of the reality of hybrid work.
64
Replies
Best
@tsharon This looks like it would be fantastic to have a better sense of who's going into the office. But there's also lots of room to design potential benefits to employees themselves. e.g., I hate making the effort to go into the office only to discover no one else is there, and I hate having to guess which days are worthwhile to go in. Could you play as some sort of matchmaker (hey, Thursday might be a good day for you to go in; Tomer will go in if you go) or assistant (the best day for you to WFH is Monday)? That might avoid Grudin's classic groupware challenges.
@tsharon Congratulations on the big launch of a highly relevant offering. Way to flex with the changes in the world today.
Great product! We're using that for the past 3-4 months and are quite happy. Integration with Slack worked flawlessly. The team loves it!
This is a real good initiative!
We have similar problem that some days our desks are over booked and some days the office is dead. We cannot solve this problem as people do not like to pre-book and the didn't commit and show up after they pre-booked.
I wonder how are you encouraging your client to enforce or at least encourage their employees to commit to the the booking that they have made?
@anson_leung key question! Our bots look at usage data and, without nagging (too much), encourage employees to provide their attendance updates. Currently, we provide three types of notifications to employees: (1) Make attendance plans. (2) See you tomorrow (to remind you that you committed to work from the office). (3) Someone you care about decided to work from the office or not. We continue to smarten up our bots to ensure you have an updated picture of office attendance.
@hai_ta1 Thank you! Yes, employees report their office attendance plans and actual attendance through the anywell Slack app.
Congratulations on your launch! It's great to see a workplace experience platform like anywell that can help companies facilitate hybrid work. With the unique dashboard that reveals office utilization, costs, and employee workplace experience, it seems like anywell can be a valuable tool for companies trying to navigate the new reality of work.
What are some of the key features of anywell's workplace experience platform, and how can it help companies overcome the challenges of hybrid work?
@cata
Thanks, Nick! Other than our fantastic dashboard (I'm being very objective here) anywell's key features are:
1. Team coordination through Slack.
2. Workspace allocation and booking.
3. Office event publishing.
4. Default weekly plan.
5. Tracking and reporting both planning and attendance.
@aloncarmel
The anywell Slack app and its bots take care of that. The app asks employees to update their office attendance plans and report their attendance. Alternatively, anywell integrates with facilities' badging systems and pulls attendance data from there.
@yair_bar_on
Assuming I interpret âpredefined daysâ as fixed days individual employees or teams show up to the office (e.g., Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays), the answer is that people donât always comply with their companyâs hybrid policy. This miss-coordination leads to situations where people show up to the office realizing their team members are working remotely, or even worse; they choose to work from home only to realize their team is at the office.
In addition, companies using anywell save a ton of real estate and office maintenance expenses once they realize the accurate attendance picture.
@yossierd Hey Yossi,
Many companies have already implemented and regularly use badging systems for entering their offices, rooms, areas, or floors. These companies have information about where their employees are in the office, and employees are aware of it and learn to accept it as a reasonable practice. anywell is not introducing anything different; anywell does not track employeesâ whereabouts, does not use employeesâ smartphone location data, and does not use any hidden or evil pattern to get more data about where people are. Anywell asks employees to report their planned and actual attendance and provides them with an immediate personal benefit - save their commute when itâs not necessary and suggest commuting when itâs worth it.
Do you integrate with Google calendar? We don't want people to update in 2 different places.
@erez_carmel
anywell is one of the few companies that were given access to the Google Calendar API. The platform offers this integration so that if your companyâs practice is to update office or remote work through Google Calendar, it will automatically update anywell, and vice versa; once employees update their planned attendance on anywell, these updates also appear on their calendars. We are working closely with the Google Calendar team on this integration.
Is it more for employees having better coordination or for managers to understand office utilization? Whatâs the egg, and whatâs the chicken?
@karin_gross
Both! No chickens or eggs are involved. Employees benefit from a better office experience since they are more coordinated with their teammates, and managers feel more in control when they have an accurate picture of office utilization. While the former leads to higher employee satisfaction and retention, the latter has the potential to save huge costs for any company.
Great initiative!
What company size is best for using anywell? We are not that big (270 people over three offices), and Iâm not sure itâs for us.
@odi_paneth
Excellent question! While teams and companies of all shapes, forms, and sizes already use and benefit from anywell (we have companies with eight employees using anywell), bigger enterprises (hundreds and thousands of employees) benefit the most from our platform. The reason is that the bigger the company, the bigger the mess of miss-coordinated office attendance and the most enormous waste of office lease and facility management. The more, the merrier!
In the era of hybrid work, this is so needed. I myself am not a hybrid approach lover, but most of the companies do and this is what matters in terms of demand. A question: how *employees* would benefit from it?
@igorpavlov Thank you for your kind words; we think so too!
As for your question, anywell helps employees make better decisions about when to invest in a long commute. Our research shows that the primary reason people show up to the office is the presence of âtheir peopleâ there. Knowing when your people are at the office will make your life easier.
Have been following anywell (and their awesome team) for a while and super excited for this launch!
@oren_levy3
An MS Teams integration is on our roadmap. If you do not use Slack, please contact us and tell us about your situation. We are happy to hear you out and potentially work with you to meet your needs as early as possible.
đđđđ„ Congrats @tsharon and anywell on your launch which is so relevant in today's work environment. I've a question if I may....
I understand we will get utilization data, but itâs raw. Some costs are fixed (e.g. rent), and some are non-fixed (e.g. food, parking, HVAC - heating, ventilation, air conditioning etc.). Can you break it down somehow?
And May the Fourth be with you too âđ
Thanks @lisa_fraser! Once a company provides anywell with ongoing utilization data and our system learns its patterns, anywell spits back insights about potential cost savings broken down and itemized. For example, anywell can tell you your company can meet its needs with only two rather than three floors based on attendance data. It can also tell you that you can shut off or significantly decrease office cleaning on Fridays due to low attendance.
Congrats on the launch! My workplace also uses hybrid work, and while I'm just an employee, I'm sure my boss would love this, so I'll recommend Anywell to him!
Congrats on the launch of Anywell, Tomer!
I love how it offers a software-only solution for hybrid work - we're calling it Agile Workplace, and I also love the Slack UI. Looking forward to giving it a try in our new office (currently building). Good luck!
Quick question: how do you make money while offering it for free?
anywell