Basking Achieves SOC 2 Type 2 Certification in Recognition of Security Compliance Attestation Demonstrates Ongoing Commitment to Data Privacy and Protection BERLIN, GERMANY, 31 May, 2023 – Basking.io, a global leader in real-time occupancy analytics, today announced that it has achieved Service Organization Controls (SOC) 2 Type 2 compliance. Achieving this compliance demonstrates to current…
Has the Return to Office movement peaked, or are there still surprises in store? Predictability has been in short supply for the CRE industry among changing worker expectations, highly publicized layoffs, and lingering economic questions, but portfolios still need to be managed and business strategies implemented. As the industry leader in real-time occupancy analytics, we…
At Basking, we understand that workplace managers have a lot on their plates. From managing employee productivity to keeping up with evolving technologies, it can be a lot to juggle. That’s why we’re excited to introduce our latest automated report: the Business Unit Space Analysis. The Business Unit Space Analysis Report is new, complementing our…
Gain Comprehensive Insights As a real estate manager, optimizing the utilization of office spaces across various regions can be challenging. The Portfolio Management Report is a powerful tool designed to provide real estate managers with a comprehensive overview of office utilization trends across their portfolio, highlighting sites with the greatest potential for optimization. In addition…
Looking for the right workplace strategy for CRE success in 2023 can be challenging due to the constantly evolving dynamics of office utilization. Historical benchmarks and norms offer minimal context for the near- and potentially long-term future. To help fill this gap, Basking has compiled valuable insights through its report on global workplace occupancy trends.…
With 2023 off to a fast start, we are looking forward to a strong year building on the momentum of 2022. With a number of important product updates, last year saw the Basking Occupancy Analytics platform evolve in several key areas, particularly expanded reporting/analytics capabilities, improved UI/UX, and more diverse integration options. This foundation and…
The dynamic nature of commercial occupancy and utilization requires ready access to actionable analytics, a need amplified by the lack of reliable precedent for the current environment. Critically, the CRE insights and reporting need to be easily communicated among all relevant stakeholders—a challenge for data traditionally mired in legacy systems. Reporting at Your Fingertips Basking…
What trends are emerging as companies worldwide are returning to office? To find out, our team at Basking.io followed up on the Q2 occupancy trends report by looking at aggregated data from 100 offices (7 organizations, primarily in professional services and technology sectors) across the world, with 39% of offices located in EMEA, 40% in…
Description Basking has introduced a new feature for real estate management to rank sites by their utilization. Portfolio users now have access to a new card that ranks their sites by utilization. The users can choose either peak occupancy or average occupancy as the ranking metric. Furthermore, the new card facilitates users to rank the…
Has the Return-to-Office improved since Q1 2022? To find out, our team at Basking.io followed up on the report describing the occupancy trends in Q1 2022. Once again, Basking.io looked at aggregated data from 100 offices (7 organizations, primarily in professional services and technology sectors) across the world with 39% of offices located in EMEA,…
Description Basking now offers the flexibility to exclude short-duration visits to an office. With the new Minimum Duration filter, you can exclude those visitors from the occupancy numbers who spend less than the specified time (for example, 30 mins) in the office. For example: if you would like to exclude delivery or cleaning personnel from…
Average peak occupancy rate was lower than 40% in Q1 2022 globally and was lowest (9%) in LATAM.
People are now using offices in a non-traditional way. Globally, ~44% of weekly visits to the offices were for “once a week” with LATAM leading the category with 56% visits. Moreover, on average, ~37% of the global visits lasted for less than 6 hours.
In addition to the Frequency of Visits and the Duration of Visits, the Popular Weekdays of an office is an important behavior metric that explains which day of the week is the most visited by the employees. The Analytics Tab just got a new metric: the Popular Weekdays. It is based on all the visits…
Analyzing the Frequency of Visits and Duration of Visits at office-level helps real estate and workplace managers understand how individual offices are being used. We are now launching the new Frequency of Visits and Duration of Visits dashboards at portfolio level, aggregated by regions. These two metrics give insights on how your employees use offices…
One of the key insights that stood out for us was the end of the five-day office week. This is clear when we look at the frequency of office visits per week: 40 to 64% of the employees worldwide are coming to the office only once a week, and only 10-26% of the employees are now visiting the office 4-6 days a week.
How often do employees come to the office? How long do they stay? How many offices do they visit regularly? As a workplace manager, you should know the answers to these basic questions. Why? simply because if you don’t, it means that you don’t really understand how your office is being used. We announced a…
Basking provides a web app and simple API for companies to deploy its office occupancy analytics solution in as little as two hours, enabling real-time data analytics for workplace management and flexible workplace adoption. Berlin, Germany, August 12, 2021 – Basking.io, a workplace occupancy analytics provider, today announced additional investment from notable proptech investors —…
Usually, workplace managers tap in the dark when it comes to understanding how mobile their population is. So far, the main blocker has been collecting the required data. Because of strict data protection regulations, tracking individuals is not an option. Additional technical challenges have made it difficult and expensive to find alternatives. At Basking, we…
Another thing that changed during the COVID-19 pandemic is the behavior and meaning of the daily peak occupancy metric. Before the pandemic, peak occupancy correlated almost perfectly with the distinct persons that came to the office on a particular day. Usually, employees went for several hours to the office, so the chances that everyone met…
Encouraging employees to connect to WiFi is the best way to increase the accuracy of WiFi occupancy analytics. But why should employees do it? Here are some important points and arguments that might help you drive the discussion, create clarity and bring everyone on board. 1. Privacy protection and IT security First and foremost: Privacy protection…
Different roles have different needs. An important part of our users has a strategic focus. Their decisions are long-term and therefore tend to include all available information into their decision process. By adding new services for the COVID-19 pandemic, we have are addressing a more operational need. Today we are launching a new user setting…
Understanding occupancy during the Back-to-Office phase is essential to calibrate the communication to employees and management. We have developed the Back-to-Office Recommendations card as a powerful opportunity insight tool to assist workplace and office managers. Why a Back-to-Office recommendations? Data is always a nice thing, but it is also difficult to handle and understand. Generating…
As employees start coming back to the office after COVID-19 under specific regulatory restrictions, the workplace compliance dashboard ensures visibility.
Workplace and office managers are focused on safely bringing employees back to the office. Our concept of Safety Adjusted Capacity is key for the transition.
Basking is partnering with Comfy’s workplace experience platform to provide our customers with a combination of Basking’s Social Distance compliance and occupancy monitoring and an employee-facing mobile app with room and desk booking, amenities maps and coworker finder features.
How will the new normal occupancy of my offices change after the lockdown restrictions are lifted? What will be the new role of our offices? What should I know, especially regarding leases that are expiring soon? At Basking, these are some of the frequent questions we hear from our customers. Real Estate and workplace managers…
Measuring Social Distancing in the workplace is the name of the game. Especially now that the lockdown phase of COVID-19 is coming to an end, and we are starting to plan for the coming back to the office.
As a result of COVID-19, these past few weeks were not business as usual for all of Basking’s customers and partners in North America, Europe, and Latin America. A growing number of companies are asking their employees to work from home to minimize their exposure to the virus and protect the vulnerable. WHO considers the…
