How to let employees book a specific desk

You'll need to be an admin to do this. Find out how to grant admin permissions to a user here.

Step 1: Open the Hot Desk app within Slack.

Image of Hot Desk app within Slack

Step 2: Click "Create space".

Image of Hot Desk app with pointer on button to create a new team space

Step 3: Select "Desks" from the dropdown, then select "Yes" to indicate the space will have numbered desks, then click "Next"

Image of Hot Desk app with pointer on button to create an numbered desk space

Step 4: Enter the name, location, timezone, and the desk IDs you want your employees to select from.

Image of create numbered desk space form in Hot Desk app

Step 5: Select if you want to allow guests to be booked.

Creating your first general space and selecting guest booking to be disabled

Step 6: Select if you want to ask people to confirm their attendance and automatically cancel bookings that aren't confirmed. The check in feature will send a direct message to each user that is booked in asking them if they want to keep their booking, you can send the direct message on the day of the booking or the day before at any time. You can also set when you want unconfirmed bookings to be cancelled.

Options to enable a check in message to be sent to booked users

Step 7 (optional): Add a link to the plan of your space. This can be a page on your intranet, or a Google Document only your team has access to.

Image of create numbered desk space form with plan URL in Hot Desk app

Step 8 (optional): Enter the names of users you want to be able to use the space. If you want everyone to use the space skip this step.

Image of permitted users dropdown in Hot Desk app

Step 9: Click "Create".

Image of create space button in Hot Desk app

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