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At Colorkrew, all seats in the office are free of charge.
As many of you may know, a free address is an office style that allows employees to choose their own seats freely without having a fixed seat.
Go to work, find an empty seat, take a seat, scan the QR code on the seat with an app called Colorkrew Biz, and clock in.
You can leave the seat on the way home with the app, so you don't need to clock in from the clocking card or intrasite. It's easy.
Even though the cherry blossoms bloomed the fastest in the history of observation, how are you doing in the world of self-restraint of events due to the influence of the new coronavirus?
As for me, I have nothing to do because I have nothing to do due to self-restraint, so I lost weight because I had my wisdom teeth removed the other day and refrained from eating solid foods. On the contrary, I am in good health. Thank you very much.
However, the world is in turmoil due to the corona pandemic, so I hope that this situation will recover as soon as possible.
Now, let's get to the main topic.
I am usually in charge of pre-sales of a service called Kuramane, which supports cloud introduction.
I sometimes go out for work, but I am often in the office when estimating, designing, and building.
Here I will tell you the advantages and disadvantages of free addresses.
Benefits of Free Addresses
- You can work with a fresh feeling
- Increased communication
- Clean Desk
First of all, the seats.
By being able to choose the seat you like, you can feel fresh every day. Even at the same table, it is a completely different scene just because the sitting position is different.
You can choose the seat you like, so you are free to sit at the same table. It may be the same as a good colleague, or it may be the same as a colleague you haven't talked to much.
Colorkrew also has a courage lunch system where people who don't know each other go to lunch and get to know each other, but the same effect can be achieved with a free address.
This is good! Getting to know each other can lead to new collaborations and the soil for new products.
Next, as for the environment, if you have a fixed seat, you will inevitably feel a sense of life. I think most people keep useful things within reach.
If this is a free address, you can clean up when you leave, so you can naturally keep a clean desk, and the next person who sits down can also spend a clean environment.
In the Colorkrew office, there are private rooms surrounded by partitions when you want to concentrate, so you can change the place where you work according to your mood, such as a private room when you want to concentrate, and a window seat when you want to work while looking for a change of pace.
Colorkrew has an office on one floor of a building called CS Tower in Asakusabashi.
The room is roughly 20m x 40m in length and width.
Each table has a name, and the table seats are named after places such as Beijing and Madrid, the window seats are named after stars such as Mars Uranus, and the security room is named after constellations such as Pisces and Leo.
"Where are you today?" "Madrid!"
"I'm going to Pluto because I want to concentrate today."
You can work every day as if you were traveling, but there are still challenges.
Disadvantages of Free Addresses
- Problems with the seating environment (cold winter near the window, weak Wi-Fi in some places, etc.)
- The problem of not knowing where to sit
- Phone problems
- Seat fixation
The window seats have a good view, but they are freezing cold in winter, and some seats have seat environment problems such as sometimes poor Wi-Fi signal conditions (this seems to be the only way to take physical measures such as installing heating materials and network surveys).
In addition, since the project requires close communication in the same seat for a certain period of time, there is also the problem of fixing the seat (this will also require physical means such as declaring in advance and securing a place).
In addition, it would be nice if it had been declared in advance, but if you go to a private room seat for a while or go out, you don't know where to sit, the problem of where to take care of the outside line, and the problem of fixing seats in the same seat even though it is a free address.
Probably every company that has introduced free addresses has faced such a problem at least once.
Colorkrew is playing a role in solving this problem with its own product called Colorkrew Biz.
For details on the function, please see "For commuting and seat management, simply scan the QR code with your smartphone [New way of working]".
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Here is the app introduced at the beginning of the article. You can clock in and check your seating location on the seating chart. If anything, you can also analyze seats and draw seats.
It can also be used to expose people who are likely to sit down with seat analysis and set up a mandatory seat lottery period.
There is a trial period, so if you are interested, I think you can try it once.
Most at-bats of the year. I won the title of the first "MFA"
By the way, I am also actively using free addresses, and this time I received an honorary title called "MFA".
What is "MFA"?
MFA = Abbreviation for Mr. Free Address (translation: Mr. Free Address). coined words.
To put it simply, it is an award for clocking in the most seats in the company in a year. Abbreviated as the most at-bats of the year.
*Not multi-factor authentication
Colorkrew's office has a total of 41 tables, with 34 seating areas (general office rooms) + 7 (security rooms) as shown in the figure below.
I sat at 27/41 tables in this company a year and used the most free addresses, so I was awarded the title of the first MFA.
Moreover, it comes with the benefit of being able to claim MFA for one year until the next MFA is decided.
Just by calling yourself "MFA GO", you will be looked at with envy.
Even people who pass by in the office say, "Hey! You can hear the voice. I feel good.
Learn about MFA activities
The main activity is to improve the seating environment in the company.
MFA must be particular about the comfort of the seat and the quality of the environment.
He says, "Creating an airy workplace starts with the seats."
The other day, when I went to work and went to my seat as usual, I found a piece of used tissue lying on the chair.
Maybe he just bit his nose or just wiped the dirt on his desk.
What kind of story is hidden in this tissue?
The truth is in the dark, but who would want to sit in this kind of seat?
The problem is that you don't know what you used it for, and it's not good for looking or hygienic.
Colorkrew has an internal SNS called Goalous, which can be viewed by all employees, and I reported it there.
Garbage goes to the trash can.
Uncleanness is the enemy. (As expected of Colorkrew, a group of adult professionals, there has been no more used tissue left unattended since that day.)
The above is just an example, but if I find anything that goes against the spirit of MFA even a little, I want to fight it thoroughly.
Future Work Style Reforms as MFA
Although it is only for a one-year period, as an MFA that I received as a windfall, I hope to improve the environment where everyone can work comfortably while enjoying it.
Specifically, it would be even better if we could improve satisfaction with the workplace environment by enhancing equipment such as ergonomically designed chairs and recommending the introduction of sound, light, plants, aromas, etc.
While spending most of the day at work, you want to spend that environment without stress. I think so.
Ahead of the Olympics, work style reforms such as flextime systems such as staggered work hours and core time changes, as well as the introduction of telework such as telecommuting and remote work, are unexpectedly accelerating due to the new coronavirus.
Recently, I, as an MFA, have started to work remotely four times a week.
If you think of remote work as a remote seat, it is one of the free addresses. There are things that MFA can do.
I was enthusiastic about the cycle of enhancing the work environment through free addresses→ activating communication→ improving productivity→ increasing sales→ improving satisfaction→ and enhancing the work environment (cafes and satellite offices), and today is good!
How to Use the Seating and Exit Function
(1) Scan the QR code and attend
(2) Leave the "status change function" of the app