ACCESS CONTROL
4. Personal and visitor storage
Occasional visitors need personal storage for their belongings during their office hours. Lockers with coded locks are a reliable way to provide it without excessive admin or management. Locker locks can be programmed in private mode, giving employees repeat access to a dedicated individual lock. Or public mode, where codes are erased after each use, gives multiple employees shared access.
3. Pick-up points
Pick-up points can be multi-functional and used for several purposes to improve workers’ experience in the office. Using coded locker locks and locker arrays, designers can play with many different applications:
• Locker-based mailroom systems that allow hybrid employees to collect post and easily take deliveries while in the office.
• Click and collect support points where hybrid employees can have equipment dropped off by IT teams, or return devices for repair or re-use. SDS London adopted this approach for customer orders. You can read the case study here.
• Tool libraries for creative and technical teams to store assets like video cameras or recording equipment. A sixth form college created spaces for phones and laptops with a Codelocks and LapSafe locker solution, take a look here.
Just Eat for Business saw a 25 % increase in orders to offices by the end of 2023, with a rise in healthier meals. Over three-quarters of orders were placed on midweek collaboration days.
• Catering and food delivery drop-off points that can be used for food orders – either for individuals, or for meetings and events. These are also ideal to distribute pre-ordered or subsidised snacks, drinks, or meal kits to hybrid staff. Clev Tech created The Yummy Box for food orders. Take a look at the storage solution and contactless collection access control solution here.
Shareable access codes make multifunctional pick-up points easy to manage. For example, our NetCode ® technology doesn’ t require Wi-Fi; employees can get a locker with a unique time-sensitive code that provides them effortless, keyless access for set durations.
Without shareable, time-sensitive access codes, managing pick-up points would be too much of a headache. And in some cases, it just wouldn’ t work given practicalities or data protection requirements.
5. Project lockers for cross-day collaboration
Many teams need to work with physical assets such as product samples, storyboards, or whiteboards for brainstorming. Whatever they are, project collaboration lockers give teams a place to store what they’ re working on.
In-office days might not overlap for all team members, but teammates can pick up exactly where their colleagues left off by getting the project materials from a locker. This helps save a lot of stress and prevents important materials getting lost or damaged.
Providing the amenities people want
Research suggests more than half of employees want their offices to provide a wider range of amenities. The creative use of access control solutions in the KitLock by Codelocks range can help support this. Small and effective, KitLock coded locks can support flexible-use shared spaces to get bums on seats and make the office a place people want to be.
Explore the full range of KitLock locker locks to learn more.
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