In addition to enabling more flexibility for
employees, the technology also increases the
flexibility of the space.
"We can take space and make it a neighborhood
one day, and then we can release it and use it
for individual desks that people can reserve
another day," said Dawn Crisson, Booz Allen's
technical lead for the AgilQuest application and
the liaison between facilities and AgilQuest.
(A "neighborhood", for the uninitiated, is a
dedicated area within a workspace where teams
can cluster and work together for the duration
of a project.)
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On top of allowing for much more flexibility
with the space, the platform also allows for Booz
Allen's employees to connect in new ways. Scherer
praised the seamlessness of knowing where
and with whom you're going to work, and what
you're going to be doing. And that frictionless
connection doesn't stop once an employee books
his or her space for they day:
"We focus a lot on being able to very quickly bring
in your laptop, get the information that you want
to share up on the screen where others can see it,
and do that within 30 seconds," said Scherer. "You
are now being more efficient and connecting in a
better way so that more ideas can flow, and using
that time, and being very productive. That's what
technology can allow."
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