A meeting room full of people on 8%

Why it works for offices & workplaces

• Covers staff and visitors from one place, instead of a shared cable nobody returns
• Reception stops being asked for a charger several times a day
• Works for co-working floors too, where the people changing daily are the whole point

The problem here

Every office solves this badly in the same way: a drawer of mismatched cables at reception, lent out and rarely returned, plus whichever member of staff happens to own the right one. Visitors in for a long meeting are the worst case — they arrive on whatever charge they had, nobody offers, and by the afternoon someone is quietly asking to borrow a charger from the person they are negotiating with.

Where the station goes

Reception covers visitors, which is the case that actually embarrasses people. A second by the meeting rooms or in the break area covers staff, who will not walk to reception for it. In a co-working floor the station belongs wherever members already congregate — the kitchen or the lounge — because the population changes daily and nothing that needs explaining will get used.

What this takes from you

What it takes from you is a socket in reception or a shared area. We install the station, maintain it and keep it stocked; there is no hardware to buy and no maintenance contract, which usually means no capital approval to wait for either. How it is paid for is agreed with you — many companies simply cover it themselves and present it the way they present the coffee, but that is a choice rather than the only route, and reception and the staff floors do not have to match.

What managers ask

We are one floor with maybe forty people. Too small?

Possibly, and we would rather say so than install something that sits unused. Forty desks on their own usually is not enough; forty desks plus a steady flow of visitors, or a building with several tenants sharing a reception, usually is. The honest test is how many people who do not work there pass through in a week.

Do we have to give you anything about our staff?

No. There is no integration with your systems, no employee list, no badge access and no data passed in either direction. Whoever borrows does so through the app with their own account; you receive nothing about who used it and we ask for nothing.

What happens when we move office?

We move it, or we take it back. The hardware is ours, so a relocation is a scheduling question rather than a disposal problem, and there is no asset on your books to write off. Tell us before the move rather than after and it is straightforward.