How to enable employees to book a specific desk

You'll need to be an admin for your Slack team to do this. Find out how 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, 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 (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 7 (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 8: Click "Create".

Image of create space button in Hot Desk app

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