Are You Making One of These Common Visitor Check-in Mistakes?
Looking for ways to improve your visitor check-in process? In this post, we look at common visitor management mistakes and how to avoid them.
Employee Retention Strategies for 2022
What are the top employee retention strategies that you need to implement now to keep your best talent? Learn more here:
Employee Supremacy: How Has it Impacted the Team and the Company
On this episode, we share stories about how employee supremacy has impacted our team.
Office Management Tools You Need
Would you like to get a handle on office management this year? In this post, we’re sharing a look at which office tools you need to efficiently run your office.
Creating a Successful Hybrid Office Model
In this episode, we discuss long-term approaches to establishing a hybrid work policy.
How to Have Respectful Conflict at Work
Wonder if it’s possible to have respectful conflict at work? It is, and our podcast guest talks about how to do it well. Learn more about The Receptionist at https://hubs.ly/H0-HP680
10 Essential Elements of an Emergency Evacuation Plan
Extreme weather, bomb threats, combustible dust explosions: all events that require companies to switch on emergency gear. Since these situations invariably cause panic, having a solid emergency evacuation plan in place is the best way to handle them. OSHA has …
Free Newsletter Templates: 11 Best Sites for Office Managers
A digital newsletter is an excellent way to stay top of mind for your customers and prospects. Whether it’s a daily digest (think: news organizations), a weekly wrap-up (for sites and blogs that publish often), or a monthly update (most…
15 Best Scheduling Software Tools for Coworking Spaces
“Scheduling is my favorite thing!” said no one, ever. Whether it’s for desks and rooms at your coworking space, or for meetings or events, booking time and space is usually much more complicated than it needs to be. Here are…
7 Must-Have Tech Tools for the Modern Office
Technology is what drives and supports businesses today, from apps that enable communications to smart conference tables that allow anyone at a meeting to share their screen with the press of a button. Here are seven office tech tools we’ve…
3 Ways Your Reception Area Makes an Impression
Your office’s reception area makes an impression on visitors. Whether that impression is good or bad depends on its aesthetics, staff, and tools.
Personalized Workspace Design: What It Is and Why Employees Love It
Personalized workspace design is an important office perk for modern employees. Here’s how to offer it in your workplace.
Check Yo Self!
Businesses need to focus on having a strong front desk check-in experience. The podcast covers best practices for a front office.
Receptionist Job Description: How to Optimize Your Front Desk Efficiency
Your reception area is the first point of contact for office visitors. As such, it plays a key part in creating a positive impression of your business, and helping reduce office traffic. While many offices are shifting toward digital reception—more…
The Receptionist for iPad Version 3.0: More Customizable Than Ever!
While you were hopefully enjoying a relaxing summer vacation on a tropical isle, the Engineering team at The Receptionist was hard at work making your office check-in process even more awesome. Version 3.0 includes many more button options so that…
How to Write a Great Visitor Policy for Your Office
Clear visitor policy is vital to the security of your employees, clients, and workplace assets. It keeps your workers safe, your equipment secure, and your confidential information, well, confidential. Of course, the nature of your visitor policy will depend on…
Your Lobby’s Role in Office Security
As the first point of contact with your office visitors, your lobby plays an important role in setting a welcoming tone and communicating your brand image. It’s also absolutely crucial to office security. A secure reception area can improve…
Does Your Visitor Experience Make (or Break) Your Brand Image?
When it comes to visitor experience, first impressions are everything. As soon as clients walk into your office, you want them to see who your company is and why they should want to work with you. In other words,…
7 Emerging Trends in Modern Office Management
With rapid developments in technology and an ever-evolving workforce, office management strategy is constantly changing. So what do you need to know to keep your finger on the pulse and ensure you are managing your workspace in the most efficient…
5 Common Office Tasks You Can (and Should) Automate
A small investment in automation can save you hundreds of hours in the long run. Automating common tasks reduces mistakes and frees up workers to focus on more important assignments. It also improves your bottom line. Here are some practical strategies to automate your workplace.…
Our Top 5 Most-Read Articles of 2015
We hope you’ve found great resources on our site this year. Just in case you missed one, here are our five most popular posts of 2015.
Did You Know Your iPad Could Do This? 11 iPad Features Most People Never …
3 Receptionist Software Tools You Need
Your front desk staff works hard. They’re your company’s front line for customer-facing communication in person, online, and over the phone — sometimes all at once. Here are three software tools that will help them work more efficiently in 2016.…
7 Best Practices for Visitor Sign-In Sheets
Is your company among the 40% that use paper sign-in sheets to track visitors? If so, your visitor sign-in sheet is probably the first thing people encounter when they enter your office, and maybe the last thing they see before…
Who’s Watching Your Front Desk? [Infographic]
We asked receptionists, office managers, and executive assistants a few questions about how their front offices work. See how their answers stack up to yours.…
Visitor Management System Best Practices
Visitor management systems improve the flow of visitors through your office while also reducing the administrative burden and increasing security. Here are seven best practices for implementing a visitor management system.
Choose a user-friendly system
Yes, a visitor management system…