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We are honored to announce that our 5th-generation IoT sensor was recently awarded a product innovation award with Architectural Products magazine! Our sensor was featured in the eighth annual Product Innovation Awards. This 5th-generation smart sensor, the most powerful and smallest sensor Enlighted has developed, was listed along with other HVAC and energy management products. Through the awards, judges had the opportunity to comment on our product and how its presence is innovating the...

In part two of our series on hot desking, we explore the best practices necessary to making the transition to hot desking work for your organization.  While the trends suggest a big opportunity for hot desking (see part one of this blog series), there is valid concern among real estate and workplace teams around actually getting it right. Some employees with individual desk assignments may not like transitioning to a program that threatens their personal space. So, how...

Given the reality of rising real estate costs and low space utilization, leading corporate executives are turning towards IoT-enabled workplace tech to get more productivity from the people and space they already have. Occupancy sensors, particularly when combined with workplace experience apps, are a popular option for real estate teams interested in using real-time data to both enhance the employee experience and to better inform workplace decisions. But while some sensor types have been...

In a world where maintaining a competitive edge comes down to a company’s ability to attract and retain talent, leading executives and real estate teams are scrambling to meet the rising expectations of the modern workforce. The struggle is as real as the battle for talent is fierce: how do you turn your real estate portfolio into a place that employees want to come to every day? How do you create space to foster collaboration? Employee productivity? How do you ensure your brand and your...

Corporate real estate leaders around the world are beginning to offer their employees a powerful new tool: the workplace experience app. Recently, our CEO and CoFounder Andrew Krioukov was invited by RealComm to speak on a workplace experience panel at CoRE TECH, an intimate gathering of the most forward-thinking corporate real estate leaders from Microsoft, Google, Intel, Coca-Cola, Deutsche Bank, and more. Andrew shared the stage with McDonald's, LinkedIn, CBRE, and Teem to discuss how our...

In a world where employee expectations of the workplace are rising and hyper-connectivity has become the norm for both in-office and remote workers, it’s clear that the traditional vision of the fully-occupied, cube-filled office has gone out of style—fast. Over 42% of office space goes unused, while the cost of the space keeps rising, according to Cushman & Wakefield (C&W). Tack on low employee engagement numbers globally and an increasingly competitive market for talent, and...

In a world where new workplace technology seems to emerge every day, we’re empathetic to the frustrations of workplace strategists and real estate leaders trying to make sense of it all. If the goal is to create a unified workplace experience—one in which both physical and digital systems work seamlessly together to deliver more satisfied building occupants and significant operational savings that boost the bottom-line—how do you sort through all the possible tech solutions and choose a...

In case you missed it, Comfy recently joined the Siemens family. Amidst all the excitement, we took some time to sit down with Dave Hopping, President of Siemens Building Technologies (BT) Division, Americas, to hear his take on what led to Siemens recent “buying spree” of smart building technology and how Comfy fits in to Siemens long-term strategy. Why did Siemens decide to invest in Comfy, a workplace experience app? If you look at how building innovation has transformed over the...

At Comfy, our mission has always been to connect people to buildings, provide control for employees, and create amazing workplace experiences. Steve and I first started Comfy because we saw that the world of building technology and controls was so wrapped up in optimizing the building that it had forgotten the most important component of a well-run workplace: the people, those who work in the building and those who run it. So we set out to flip the way the industry thinks about...

Welcome to our two-part series on the leading trends and best practices around hot desking, from Comfy’s VP of User Experience (and IDEO alum) Beau Trincia. In part one, we’ll start with the basics: what is hot desking, and why is it hot right now? One of the most exciting aspects of product research at Comfy is connecting with our customers to hear emerging trends in workplace experiences. As Comfy has proven to be the app of choice for leading companies looking to deliver great...