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Today’s hybrid work reality demands more than guesswork.

These leading office space management solutions are built to help you cut costs, right-size real estate, and increase employee engagement—backed by real-time data and powerful automation. Whether you’re optimizing underused space, coordinating fluctuating hybrid schedules, striving to enhance the employee experience (in physical or virtual spaces) or creating a more collaborative environment, these platforms deliver the insights and tools you need to take decisive, measurable action.

We’re taking a close look at the following brand solutions:

Tango Workplace

Tango’s workplace solution meets the dynamic needs of the hybrid workplace. Trusted by global enterprises, their workplace solution supports portfolio strategy, space management, lease accounting & administration, and sustainability management. With hybrid work becoming the norm, Tango’s office reservation and visitor management tools are now essential in modern, flexible work environments.

Tango Dashboard

Key Features:

  • Improve access to shared office resources with a comprehensive reservation system that accounts of all types of reservable spaces & assets.
  • Leverage reliable, accurate data to cut unnecessary costs and create an optimal workplace experience.
  • Plan, monitor, analyze, and allocate your space using best-in-class space management software.
  • Register, track, and report on everything coming into your facilities with a cutting-edge visitor management solution.

Bonus Resource: Guide to Hybrid Work in 2025

 

Tango Hybrid

Modo Workplace

Modo Workplace transforms office management by streamlining space utilization, enhancing collaboration, and creating a seamless hybrid work experience. With intelligent booking, real-time insights, and automated resource management, it ensures offices are dynamic, efficient, and employee-centric. By reducing friction and maximizing engagement, Modo empowers organizations to make the workplace a destination—not an obligation.

Key Features 

  • Empowers Flexible & Intentional Office Attendance
    Employees can seamlessly book their preferred workspaces in seconds—whether for a single day or weeks in advance—ensuring they have the flexibility to plan their in-office time around collaboration and productivity.
  • Boosts Collaboration & Team Connection
    With My CircleTM, employees can see when and where their colleagues are working, book spaces near teammates, and sync schedules for better in-person collaboration—maximizing productivity while strengthening workplace relationships.
  • Simplifies Space Management & Optimization
    Organizations can easily customize office layouts, manage bookings, and gain valuable insights into space utilization trends—ensuring an efficient, well-optimized workplace that evolves with employees’ needs.
  • Enhances Employee Experience & Productivity
    By reducing friction in space reservations, providing automated reminders, and enabling easy modifications, Modo’s solution ensures employees spend less time managing logistics and more time focusing on meaningful work.
  • Creates a Seamless, Tech-Enabled Workplace
    With integrations for IT support, facility management, and digital access, Modo unifies the hybrid workplace experience—allowing employees to navigate, book, and engage with office resources effortlessly from one centralized platform.

Modo Workplace takes the hassle out of managing office spaces—bringing everything into one app for a smoother, smarter, and more seamless workplace experience!

Bonus Resource: Elevating Employee Experience in the Workplace EGUIDE

Eptura

Eptura connects people, places, and assets in one integrated worktech platform, so your organization can drive more value. Their tools give you unparalleled visibility over your work environment, so you can better understand how people are using your space while overseeing the management of your facilities and assets.

Eptura Dashboard

Key Features

  • Digital Twins
    Make an interactive floorplan of every office so you can plot out all work areas, resources, and amenities in your building — from emergency equipment and signage to furniture and shared technology.
  • Strategic Space Planning
    Use drag-and-drop tools to visualize moves and dashboards to understand how teams will fit into new or reconfigured spaces.
  • Move Management
    Plan and manage moves for individuals or teams, within a space or to new locations. Create and track move tickets, see move schedules, set up moving labels, and automatically notify employees when their space is ready.
  • Usage Monitoring
    identify space occupancy patterns with peak utilization and frequency trends to receive an accurate overview about how employees are interacting with the space.
  • Real Estate Planning
    Track, manage, and evaluate your global commercial real estate portfolio. Utilize our easy-to-view dashboards or reports to better understand lease costs, expiration dates, and more.

Bonus Resource: Workplace Innovator Podcast

HubStar Connect

HubStar Connect improves space management by making hybrid workplaces more intentional and data-driven. This workplace experience software helps organizations optimize space utilization while boosting purposeful collaboration through intelligent desk booking, room scheduling, and team coordination capabilities, creating environments where employees actively want to be, backed by real-time occupancy insights.

HubStar Connect

5 Key Features

  • Intelligent Desk Booking: Employees can always find and reserve ideal workspaces based on team attendance, neighborhood assignments and work preferences
  • Purposeful Attendance Coordination: Shows when teammates will be in the office, making it easier to coordinate schedules, reduce wasted space and create vibrant, well-utilized work environments.
  • Office Event Advertising: Promote company gatherings, team meet-ups, and social activities directly within the booking interface, driving intentional space usage and creating a community-centered workplace culture.
  • Real-Time Space Utilization Data: Provides workplace managers with accurate occupancy metrics to identify underutilized areas, consolidate space on quieter days and make data-driven decisions about space allocation.
  • AI-Powered Space Recommendations: Connect’s virtual assistant mathces employees with the right spaces, whether for collaboration, focus work, or social connection

Bonus Resource: HubStar Webinars On Demand

HubStar

OpenBlue Workplace

OpenBlue Workplace, formerly FMS:Workplace, is a modular, flexible, easy-to use Integrated Workplace Management Solution (IWMS) that enables organizations to manage, analyze and report on facilities and real estate operation and maintenance (O&M) information. Access to accurate data means facilities and real estate professionals can deliver better customer service, reduce costs and improve the performance of their facilities portfolio-wide.

5 Key Features

  • Efficiently allocate, utilize, and optimize physical spaces, meeting rooms, and workstations.
  • Maintain and manage the upkeep of facilities, assets, and equipment.
  • Effectively allocate and manage resources such as furniture, equipment, and amenities.
  • Gather and analyze data related to space utilization, occupancy patterns, and resource allocation.
  • Monitor and manage energy consumption, track sustainability initiatives, and reduce environmental impact.

Bonus Resource: The Hybrid Hangout Podcast

Ready to transform your space and drive real impact?

Dive deeper into these innovative platforms and discover how you can turn every square foot into a strategic asset.

Created in partnership with Modo, Eptura, HubStar, OpenBlue Workplace and Tango

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