The Basking Top 5: Counting Down Our Favorite Updates of 2024
Over the past year we have worked to ensure Basking remains the most accessible, impactful, and easy-to-use occupancy analytics tool available. While the changing nature of workplace optimization has brought challenges, we see opportunities to innovate and are thankful to partner with organizations that share our passion for better.
Of course, there’s more where that came from—we’re already excited for the new insights and opportunities 2025 will bring. In the meantime check out our biggest highlights from 2024 and we wish you a restful holidays and happy new year from the Basking team!
AI Assistant
Basking AI is more than a new feature, it is a powerful assistant to help you understand and use your data better and faster. By actively analyzing and interpreting information to provide actionable recommendations, it expands the way you work:
- Ask Questions – ask the exact question you have, and get responses tailored to the specific needs of your organization
- Comparative Performance Analytics – compare two sites side-by-side and create a draft of any related document in seconds
- Multi-Language Communication – get a written summary of any information displayed in the app, geared toward any perspective or priority AND in any language
Live Feed
Continuing with the emphasis on accessible data, the new Live Feed gives you different ways to explore your data right from your dashboard. You can find immediate value in these insights rather than being overwhelmed—quickly understanding the story and identifying opportunities in the data across several categories:
- Insights – going beyond the raw data to highlight patterns, trends, or relationships within the information offers a deep understanding or comprehension of occupancy data for a particular location
- Recommendations – suggestions and considerations derived from the combination of occupancy data and Basking’s in-house AI algorithms
- Alerts – be notified when specific events, conditions, or changes require your attention or prioritization
In-App Benchmarks
Basking’s global benchmarks analysis provides a quarterly assessment of unique occupancy trends and insights. Those data points are now available directly in the user dashboard, paired with the your metrics for comparison and evaluation: how good is your occupancy? Is it improving over time? Where is there room for further optimization in the new year?
As an on-demand indicator of what good looks like in terms of workplace occupancy, the embedded benchmarks allow you to own performance and understand it in the context of the latest regional trends.
For even more insight, check out the Q3 2024 Global Occupancy Benchmarks report.
Return-to-Office
We know RTO remains a ongoing area of focus, even as objectives and goals evolve. Revamped Return-to-Office Insights provide tailored goal recommendations at the site level, using simulations that draw on three months of historical trends. Learn more about RTO goals and how to check or adjust yours.
In addition, the automated Portfolio-Level RTO Report offers a global scope with granular data to give you the best of both worlds. Analyze and optimize the RTO potential across your organization with helpful features like:
- Maximum RTO potential analysis by region/country
- Occupancy insights and analysis by frequency, duration, and weekly peak occupancy
- Adherence to RTO mandate
Ready to optimize? The Floor Closure Potential analysis in your dashboard helps identify the opportunity to close certain floors on low occupancy days. Generate OPEX and CO2 savings and avoid “empty office” syndrome for those in the office while increasing occupancy across the rest of the site.
Employee Personas
As RTO continues to evolve, understanding how your employees use the office(s) is more important than ever for informing your strategy, goals, and approach. Basking has developed pioneering new analyses that go far beyond head count and badge scans to fit today’s dynamic workplace.
Mobility Personas identifies the patterns within your office population across six categories:
- Occasional – short durations (4/- hrs) and occasional frequency (2-3 days/week)
- Regular – short durations (4/- hrs) and frequent visits (4-5 days/week)
- Hybrid – long durations (4/+ hrs) and occasional frequency (2-3 days/week)
- On-Site – long durations (4/+ hrs) and frequent visits (4-5 days/week)
- Infrequent – visits office rarely (~1 day/week)
- Flexible – does not follow a consistent mobility pattern
And since you also need to understand how many people regularly work at a particular site and how many are visiting from elsewhere, our data analytics and engineering teams delivered with Workspots.
These powerful tools are the perfect pairing to understand and measure your employees’ paths, preferences, and priorities.
Bonus Content: LeasePro
We’ve got one more goodie in the gift pile, an early look at a our first new product of 2025…
Streamline your property lease administration, ensure compliance, and unlock operational efficiency with Basking’s LeasePro. Designed to work seamlessly with Basking’s occupancy management platform, this solution offers a fully integrated picture of property performance and usage patterns for increased efficiency and decision-making.
Let us know if you’re interested in simplifying your lease data management, and stay tuned for the full announcement!
