Time-Sharing Use Case

Next to personnel costs, office space and the supporting infrastructure represent the second largest expense for most business organizations today. When an organization hires a new employee, they are assigned a workspace, computer, phone and other assets required to perform their job. While these assets are assigned to that employee, they are never 100% utilized. Allocation of assets does not equal utilization of assets.

A company with the same size workforce, but reduced office space and fewer assets can be more aggressive in today's economic climate. To achieve these savings, many progressive businesses have implemented Time-sharing for their mobile work forces. In a Time-sharing environment, employees do not have their own office space, phone or network connection. Instead, a pool of these assets is made available to all mobile workers on a first-come first-served basis. Because not all workers are in the office at the same time, fewer workstations, phones and network connections are required than the actual number of workers in the company.

While Time-sharing reduces costs, it can also reduce morale and alienate workers if not implemented properly. In order for workers to remain engaged in the organization, they must be provided the proper tools to stay connected. The single most important tool in doing this is a system that allows users to easily reserve a workspace of their choosing from anywhere outside the office.

Innobate resource scheduling solution provides a reservation system that makes Time-sharing work for your business. Because it is web based, mobile workers can log into the system from their home office, hotel room, client site or anywhere they have a dial-up or network connection to the internet. The user interface is intuitive and requires no special training to use. Because all reservations are stored in a database, usage information can be easily accessed for analysis. Utilization reports can be produced, allowing you to monitor and adjust the number of shared resources based upon historical usage. Best of all, workers stay connected to the business because they still have personal control over their work environment when they are in the office.