{"id":2368,"date":"2023-09-14T12:53:44","date_gmt":"2023-09-14T16:53:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eptura.wpengine.com\/?p=2368"},"modified":"2025-09-11T12:00:18","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T16:00:18","slug":"workplace-and-asset-management","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eptura.com\/discover-more\/blog\/workplace-and-asset-management\/","title":{"rendered":"Breaking down workplace and asset management silos"},"content":{"rendered":"

According to our latest quarterly survey, employees generally visit the office during the mid-week<\/a>. This fact of today\u2019s workplace has financial and management implications across teams using a range of different systems and processes.<\/p>\n

What does the mid-week spike mean for your asset management<\/a>, maintenance, and repair teams? Or your security and reception support for managing visitors<\/a>? As more and more employees return to the office, how are they sharing space? What impact does that have on cleaning the facilities or on controlling building energy costs or managing inventory?<\/p>\n

For maintenance teams today, workload ratios are working against them. The ideal ratio of preventive to corrective maintenance is roughly 4:1. But our Q2 data shows a ratio of 4:7<\/a>. \u00a0It means that for every four work orders planned, maintenance is responding to more than seven break-fix or other ad hoc ticket requests.<\/p>\n

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The problem isn\u2019t data. There\u2019s no shortage of it. It\u2019s being able to make good decisions from it quickly and easily \u2013 and automate rote, highly repeatable processes from the information. It\u2019s being able to manage it all across connected workflows. \u00a0i.<\/p>\n

Between 2020 and 2022, global enterprise data grew at a rate of 42% \u2013 a total of 2.02 petabytes, according to Statista. But it\u2019s not the amount that\u2019s surprising; it\u2019s what people aren\u2019t doing with the data.\u00a0 Just over a third (32%) of all that data\u00a0 is put to work. \u00a0Nearly 70% of enterprise data goes unused, according to\u00a0IDC research<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Data tends to sit and live across more systems and in more siloes than you may need, often takes too long to process, and can miss the mark in helping justify decisions in today\u2019s rapidly changing world of work.<\/p>\n

\u201cCompanies of all sizes\u00a0have been forced to dedicate resources to five, 10, or even 15 different workplace and facility management tools,\u201d explained Brandon Holden, CEO of Eptura, earlier this year<\/a>.\u00a0\u201cWith reduced budgets and fewer resources, organizations need to shift toward unified platforms that replace\u00a0individual solutions.\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s time to rethink work models and modes<\/h2>\n

What\u2019s needed is a complete rethink of working models. Gone are the days when business properties were assessed by measuring cost per square foot, cost per use, and customer satisfaction scores in isolation<\/em>. With today\u2019s range of flexibility<\/a>, hybrid work patterns, employers need to know how to measure the necessary balance between experience and efficiency, and flexibility and certainty.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe need to get away from this idea of the binary day in the office versus the day at home,\u201d says Leonie M. Hicks, Workplace Strategy Consultant, Unispace on our Workplace Innovator podcast<\/a>. \u201cIf we could incorporate some more flexibility around the hours worked, I think this would be a way to earn the commute.\u201d<\/p>\n

Our 16,000+ customers are experimenting with different work modes and models, and are increasingly adopting integrated technology that connects data and measures how employees use the physical space. More and more facility managers and employees are taking advantage of artificial intelligence, machine learning, and automation to help reconfigure offices<\/a> and other types of workspaces while improving the maintenance of physical assets and building operations.<\/p>\n

Worktech<\/a> is the bridge.<\/p>\n

Data helps unlock technology and process siloes to find more balance<\/h2>\n

Data helps companies right-size their floorplans and real estate portfolio using space planning software<\/a> to match demand while simultaneously managing the costs of building operations. But one size doesn\u2019t fit all.<\/p>\n

Our recent global poll as reported in the Q2 Workplace Index<\/a> reflects how fragmented businesses are today:<\/p>\n