Happy New Year! Read on below for product updates and resources to stay updated on the corporate real estate market.

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Cheers,

Team FlexDesk

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Product Updates

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Portfolio Management

Track lease information, anticipate rent escalations, and never miss a renewal date.

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📝 Aggregate view: Users now have the ability to see detailed metrics about their portfolio - including rent and “cost-per” metrics - at a granular level by location and at an aggregate level by region and by country.

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📰 Observation period: Users now have the ability to select a custom date range when viewing portfolio-level metrics.

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🤝 Vendor auto-mapping and categorization: Office-related invoices are now programmatically mapped to a location and to a custom vendor category for budget and spend tracking.

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Utilization Intelligence

Leverage existing badge access systems to automatically track attendance, RTO compliance, and make smarter renewal decisions.

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⚒️ Email-based data pipelines: Users can now configure recurring emails with CSV attachments from their utilization data provider to automatically upload attendance data into FlexDesk.

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🔥 User grouping: Users can now assign groups to individuals and leverage filtering/grouping/sorting functionality for insights on attendance patterns.

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💥 UI enhancements: Users now have additional analytics functionality, including the ability to input tailgating assumptions and to (un)select days-of-week for aggregate reporting metrics.

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Coworking Management

Provide employees with drop-in access to thousands of coworking locations within one booking interface. Maintain spend controls and consolidated billing.

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🚀 Approval workflows: Coworking administrators can now configure reservations that require admin approval - whether based on amount, meeting room capacity, length of time, and more.

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🌐 Booking policies: Users now have access to a more robust policy framework - including department-level budgets, geofencing, custom policies, and more.

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✨ UI enhancements: Users now have additional reporting functionality, including filtering spend/bookings data by reservation status, cost, individual, and more.

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What We Are Reading And Writing

• ezCater Case Study: Learn how ezCater used FlexDesk to facilitate team meetups in over 40 coworking spaces.

• Shifting focus for CRE teams: Read about how corporate real estate teams are shifting focus from operations to driving business value.

• CRE/W Role Openings: The job market for corporate real estate & workplace continues to show promise. Check out some of Clark’s recent posts (here, here, and here) for a partial list of open roles.

• FlexDesk Role Openings: FlexDesk is hiring! Check out roles within Sales (here) and Engineering (here). Referrals gladly accepted.

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