Most desk booking systems demo well — clean floor plans, tidy mobile apps and a dashboard with a few charts. The differences that matter tend not to surface in a 30-minute sales call. This guide is for whoever is running the evaluation, covering the features worth scoring, the questions that get past the demo, the pricing models that catch you out later and the mistakes that come up most often.
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31 Jul 2026
Most enterprise organisations run on Microsoft, and when you bring in a new tool for desk booking or meeting room management, the first question IT will ask is whether it integrates with the existing stack. This guide walks through how Clearooms integrates with Microsoft Teams and Office 365, covering the practical setup, the IT considerations and where the integration goes deeper than you might expect.
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24 Jul 2026
Microsoft Places is the natural starting point for desk and meeting room booking if you're already on Microsoft 365 - it sits inside Teams and Outlook, the licences are already paid for and no one has to learn a new tool. For many teams that's enough. But the limitations become apparent quickly, from additional licence costs for individual desk booking to thin reporting and limited hardware support. This article is for teams who have already looked at Places and found it doesn't quite fit, covering where it falls short and how Clearooms compares.
24 Jul 2026
Meeting rooms are one of the most contested resources in any office, and hybrid working has made the pressure sharper. Rather than adding more rooms, good management is about making the ones you already have work harder. These ten best practices cover what that looks like in practice.
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24 Jul 2026
This guide is written for facilities managers, office managers, and IT or operations leads responsible for making meeting rooms work in practice. It covers what a meeting room booking system is, how it works, what features matter, the hardware options, free versus paid considerations, and how to choose the right system.
8 Jul 2026
If your organisation has shifted to hybrid working, you’ve probably already discovered that managing desks is harder than it used to be. When everyone had an assigned desk, the office ran itself. When people are in two or three days a week and choosing different days, the office becomes a logistics problem: too many people some days, half-empty others, and no clear way for employees to know what’s available before they arrive.
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8 Jul 2026
