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Welcome to October, where summer is behind us and crisp fall air is upon us. 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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📝 Invoice upload and assignment: Users now have the ability to upload any office-related invoice to FlexDesk and associate that invoice with an office lease for the purpose of tracking TCRE (Total Cost of Real Estate).

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🤝 NetSuite integration: Users can now utilize an integration with NetSuite (powered by Merge) to programmatically push all office-related invoices into FlexDesk.

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🔥 UI enhancements: Users now have functionality for adding pro rata rents, discount factors, default clause names, amendments, and visualizing the rent schedule over time.

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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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📰 Pre-configured CSV templates: FlexDesk continues to grow its library of pre-configured CSV upload templates - including Paxton, WeWork, Genetec, and Sentrion.

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⚒️ Daily HR sync: All HRIS integrations now sync daily by default, keeping customer data up to date. Users can select whether to override or preserve values in FlexDesk.

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💥 UI enhancements: Users now have additional reporting functionality, including more comprehensive aggregate & average metrics across locations.

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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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🚀 Video launch: We launched a video on our Coworking Booking Management solution - check it out here.

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🌐 Heat Map Overlay: Admins can now visualize the density/quantity of employee locations (based on zip code) through a heat map overlay.

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✨ UI enhancements: Users now have additional reporting functionality, including filtering spend/bookings data by office and coworking brand, as well as horizontal scrolling to visualize bookings and spend over time.

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Enterprise Security + Functionality

FlexDesk is committed to providing best-in-class enterprise controls for its growing customer base.

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🪪 Authentication: FlexDesk now supports a wide selection of authentication mechanisms - including Okta, Google, Microsoft, magic auth, and more.

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⚙️ User management: FlexDesk now supports SCIM endpoints for organizations to fetch, add, update, and delete users programmatically.

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🔏 Access control: Admins now have the ability to designate different roles within their organization (viewers, editors, etc)

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What We Are Reading And Writing

• Hopper Case Study: Learn about how Hopper leveraged FlexDesk’s coworking management product to provide remote employees with worldwide access to coworking space, which is being used by over 20% of the company across 35 countries.

• Partnership Program: FlexDesk formally announced its partners program, working alongside tenant rep advisors to deliver FlexDesk to its client base. Check out an overview of the program here.

• CRE Spotlight Series: FlexDesk continued its interview series with corporate real estate leaders. Check out the FlexDesk blog for conversations with Kim Alpert and Saeid Garebaglow.

• 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.

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