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We have a simple way of doing this for our one office of about 70 people. A message to slack the day before asking if you’ll be at the office the next fag and a hand up emoji if you’re going to be there.

The main problem with this is people forgetting to do it or not paying attention to it. There have been a few days I’ve gone in to find far more people than I’m comfortable with. How do you solve this problem?

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Every admin can set the max office capacity (nb of seats) and when reaching that limit, people need to double confirm they want to go to the office while there's an over capacity.

If there's an over capacity, we give the information to everyone (users & admins) and let admins resolve this conflict with a dataset of info (like the position in the queue or the teams)

In your case, if people don't pay attention to the "booking system" then they can't complain about not getting access to your office though

Hey TomNguy, I found your product cool! In my mind, a better way to solve this specific commenter's pain point of employees not being responsive would be to create a notification on their app that lets unresponsive employees know they forgot to set their status for tomorrow. I don't mean to pass on a feature request as I'm sure you have a million of them; I just think this idea is better for this customer than telling said employees they "can't complain about not getting access to your office"

We have a weekly reminder to set your next week and, through the app, you can send a gentle ping to your own teammates when they have not set their status yet. Depending on their preferences they will receive a notification (in-app, push, slack, email...) We also sync your slack status each day, so people realize quickly when they are missing their daily emoji.

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