Workplace sustainability

Deliver a lower cost, sustainable office

Workplace leaders are under pressure to cut emissions to meet decarbonization goals and gain competitive advantage in the war for talent. Right-size your spaces, reduce energy use and create healthier environments with H₂O.

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Reduce workplace emissions

Meet net zero targets

28% of global emissions come from building operations and global emissions must be almost halved in order to meet net zero targets by 2030.

Dynamic occupancy management delivers on the promise of hybrid work to reduce energy consumption and under-utilization, by helping workplace leaders answer tough questions like:

How much space do we really need?
How can we design more sustainable environments?
How can we reduce energy costs?

Dynamic occupancy management

Optimize dynamic occupancy for a more sustainable workplace

Dynamic occupancy management

Reduce underutilization and improve workplace effectiveness by creating demand and optimizing supply

Match employees with sustainable spaces

Direct employees towards the most efficient, sustainable desks and rooms for whatever's on their to-do list with flexible, configurable booking rules.

Workplace intelligence

Provide the right space to the right people at the right time and power space design and portoflio optimization decisions

Hybrid data management

Manage people, places and policies in a central Hub. Sync floorplans, optimize sharing ratios and automate change

Workplace experience

Reduce emissions, enhance workplace experience

Dynamic workplace management aligns spaces with hybrid work patterns and employee preferences.

Optimizing purposeful attendance, measure what happened and take a data-driven approach to adapting your workplace, based on effectiveness, not guesswork.

40%

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Portfolio reduction

270kg

co2

less carbon emitted per desk per year

Corporate social responsibility

Are empty spaces hindering your decarbonization goals?

Underutilized space consumes excess energy, burns budget and creates a ‘ghost town’ experience that triggers commute regret. H₂O helps workplace leaders reduce emissions by identifying opportunities to use space more efficiently.

Which floors could you merge? Could you accommodate everyone in fewer buildings? What’s the best way to create demand on quiet days to even out hybrid occupancy? How can you achieve that while avoiding disruption and simultaneously improving workplace experience?

Workplace innovators choose H₂O

Technology fit for the new world of work

Fluctuating work patterns create complexity that can't be managed with yesterday's tools. With H₂O you can reduce underutilization and energy consumption while improving employee experience.

Next-gen, patented technology

Adapt to hybrid rapid change with intelligent technology that automates complexity, from floor plan synchronization to space utilization insight

Dynamic occupancy management

Adapt your supply of space to meet volatile hybrid demand by influencing attendance, centralizing your data and iterating your hybrid occupancy strategy

Intelligent suggestions

Aggregate data from WiFi, sensors and more. Configure occupancy alerts. Explore intelligent suggestion, from floor consolidation to room-sizing

Sustainability decision support

Connect employees with the most efficient workspaces based on their needs and preferences, empowering everyone to use the workplace more sustainably

H₂O use cases

Improve hybrid workplace sustainability

Portfolio optimization

Right-size your spaces and reduce energy consumption while improving workplace experience.

Space design and retrofit

Make data-driven space design and retrofit decisions based on data, not perception.

Purposeful attendance

Optimize attendance to increase connection and collaboration while reducing waste.

Talent and sustainability

Attract and retain top performing talent

Ethical and environmental responsibility are more important to employees than ever before. When deciding where to work, purpose-driven people prioritize organizations that demonstrate a commitment to sustainability.

Attract talent that seeks meaningful work
Strengthen your employer brand
Boost employee engagement and loyalty

Articles, events and insights

Resources for workplace innovators

7 December 2023

HubStar Announces New Approach to Workplace Decarbonization That Saves More Carbon Than a Tesla

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5 July 2024

3 Steps towards a Decarbonised and Cost-Effective Public Sector Estate

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Jackie Towers

Reduce Carbon Footprint by Understanding Workplace Occupancy

30 September 2024

4 Ways to Reduce Office Carbon Footprint by Understanding Workplace Occupancy

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Jackie Towers

22 October 2024

How a Fortune 500 Company Reduced Their CRE Portfolio by 40% with HubStar

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Jackie Towers

The H₂O platform

A platform build for hybrid work

Make the most of your spaces and places. Reduce waste and excess emissions. Increase collaboration and decrease excess energy use. Equip all your people to choose the perfect day to come into the office.

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Manage people, places and policy in a central Hub

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Global Real Estate Lead @ Fortune 500 Company

"We will not make any meaningful real estate and workplace decisions without HubStar data."

"HubStar allows us to see how space is being used and occupied, and helps us predict the space we’ll need going forward."

Donna Porter

Senior Space Manager @ Sheffield Hallam University

"Team were very happy! Implementation was great. We were up and running in days."

Law Practice

"Perfect fit. The application works very well, and the support given has been exceptional. This was originally required for desk booking, but the business quickly took to the system and have been requesting further functionality since."

Application Analyst @ Oil & Energy Company

"Brilliant solution for managing office space. We've been able to be proactive and intentional about making our office space work."

Commercial Director @ Technology & Services Company

"Would 100% recommended. Our account manager is by far the best and most approachable person I've met on any contract I've worked on. Nothings is too much. They always have the answer and help make the changes we need and want. Having this type of customer service really makes a difference."

Facilities Manager @ Civic & Social Organization

"Support response and attention to detail is exceptional. Highly recommend as very good value for the investment. Staff find it easy to use and integration to Microsoft Outlook is great. Support is excellent."

ICT Manager @ Nonprofit Organization

"What we've found most useful is the ability to customise the system to suit our needs. The rules and policy engine have allowed us to build in desk and room booking processes to communicate well with our team, and manage the space in our building."

"The standout features are it’s clean and simple interface, ability to integrate with Outlook and the simple way it can be deployed to the display screens outside our rooms, not to mention the high level of support that’s provided with the product."

Evan Henderson

IT Officer @ AEU Victoria

"User-friendly interface, real-time reservations, and effective resource management improve productivity and space use. I use it everyday."

Civil Engineering Company

"Very adaptable, highly featured and easy to use. I like the ability to address our very detailed requirements in a quick implementation with a modern, attractive user interface."

Luxury Goods & Jewellery Company

"My favourite feature is the Outlook integration, as it enables our staff to book meetings in a familiar way. The bookings are automatically transferred without any extra steps for the end user."

"The system was so intuitive, we really didn’t need to give people a lot of training."

Jeremy Wilson

Operations Manager @ Russell Group University

"The reporting has been brilliant."

"Employees need to be able to collaborate closely, working in one room. The office environment needs to align with this seamlessly. What that means for us is that we need to measure usage and occupancy rates and adjust the workspaces accordingly as needed."

Mark van Rijt

Managing Director of Facility Management @ ABN AMRO Bank

"HubStar has removed so much admin from my daily to-do list. These days I only spend about an hour a week, covering six offices and 800 staff members. Before I was spending an hour a day messaging people back and forth! This means the system has cut the time I have to spend on managing bookings by 80%."

Tristan Drinkwater

Facilities & IT Services Manager @ Exertis

"There’s a tremendous range of reports that we use to measure capacity levels."

"The experience that users now have using HubStar is absolutely fantastic. The implementation went smoothly and our staff find the system really easy to use. The support I’ve had is phenomenal - incredibly knowledgeable about the product and so helpful. They’re second to none"

"With the single push of a button, my team gains insight into spaces that are consistently underutilised and how many ‘no-shows’ have taken place"

Fred Jonker

Information Services Policy Officer @ Wageningen University & Research

"I’d absolutely recommend HubStar. If someone asked me why, I’d say it simply does everything you need it to do. The feature set is rich and covers all the requirements that most organisations are likely to have."

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How a Fortune 500 Company Reduced Their CRE Portfolio by 40% with HubStar

Introducing H2O: The World's 1st Hybrid Occupancy Platform

Deliver a lower cost, sustainable office

Meet net zero targets

Optimize dynamic occupancy for a more sustainable workplace

Dynamic occupancy management

Match employees with sustainable spaces

Workplace intelligence

Hybrid data management

Reduce emissions, enhance workplace experience

40%

Portfolio reduction

270kg

less carbon emitted per desk per year

Are empty spaces hindering your decarbonization goals?

Technology fit for the new world of work

Next-gen, patented technology

Dynamic occupancy management

Intelligent suggestions

Sustainability decision support

Improve hybrid workplace sustainability

Portfolio optimization

Space design and retrofit

Purposeful attendance

Attract and retain top performing talent

Resources for workplace innovators

HubStar Announces New Approach to Workplace Decarbonization That Saves More Carbon Than a Tesla

3 Steps towards a Decarbonised and Cost-Effective Public Sector Estate

4 Ways to Reduce Office Carbon Footprint by Understanding Workplace Occupancy

How a Fortune 500 Company Reduced Their CRE Portfolio by 40% with HubStar

A platform build for hybrid work

Boost collaboration and employee experience with Connect

Act on data not assumptions with PresenceIQ

Manage people, places and policy in a central Hub

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