team space

A method of managing space in which you do not assign individual rooms to individual employees; instead, you assign employees a team, which has an associated "neighborhood" or group of rooms.

Team space can be used in many situations. For example:

• flexible workspace situations such as hotdesking, in which any employee arrives at the office and occupies any seat that is available and is assigned to the team.
• managing project-based work; for example, employees from multiple departments sit together in a team-designated area for five months to work on a project. At the conclusion of the project, they are assigned to a new project and occupy seats in the area designated for that project.

With team space, you can:

• manage occupancy according to a target employee-to-seat ratio
• make changes to teams over time to track employees joining and leaving teams and changing space assignments

You first associate employees with a team, and then assign the team to a set of rooms or workstations. The rooms that you assign may be of various types: open areas, workstations, collaboration areas, traditional offices, and so on.

Within a team, you might have some employees who are assigned specific seats due to their role; for example, executives who are part of a team may be assigned their own offices. These employees have permanent space (the office) which is included in the team space.