The Workplace Core applications allow classification of workplace locations by cost center, department, and workplace entity. This setup helps create parent-child hierarchies that mirror your organization's business structure, facilitating efficient space utilization and management.

Key Features

• Business hierarchy creation: Define entity types (e.g., Business Units, Marketing Units) and workplace entities (e.g., ITSM, Facilities) to build a structured business hierarchy.
• Hierarchy-based space management: Allocate space based on entity levels, visualize allocations on stack plans and floor maps, and understand parent-child relationships for spaces.
• Entity type ordering: Set the hierarchy order by assigning numerical values to entity types; lower numbers represent higher hierarchy levels.
• Push down functionality: Apply changes from a parent workplace entity to its child entities, ensuring consistent configurations.
• Activation controls: Activate or deactivate workplace entities, with deactivation cascading to child entities; activation requires the parent entity to be active.
• Filtering and direct actions: Easily filter workplace locations by entity and perform bulk or individual actions aligned with business units.

Practical Application

As a workplace manager, you can use these configurations to:

• Manage space allocations according to business needs and entity hierarchy levels.
• Visualize and control space consumption across different business units using dashboards like Space Optimization.
• Maintain an accurate representation of your organization's workplace structure for better resource planning and utilization.
• Perform hierarchical updates efficiently using the push down option, ensuring consistency across related entities.

Important Considerations

• Workplace entities cannot be used to create scenarios; they are for space administration and visualization purposes only.
• Workplace entities must have an active parent to be activated themselves.
• Deactivation of a workplace entity deactivates all its child entities automatically.

Next Steps

• Create entity types tailored to your organization's structure.
• Add workplace entities and assign them to appropriate entity types and parents to build your hierarchy.
• Use filtering, activation, and push down features to manage workplace locations effectively.
• Review related tasks such as importing workspace data, configuring space types, and managing workplace shifts and reservations.