At a glance
About
908 Devices is a rapidly scaling medical devices company in Boston, USA.
Problem
Increasing headcount was creating parking problems.
Solution
Full product roll-out to optimize all aspects of employee parking management.
Key Benefits
Eliminated the need for staff to pay for parking off-site.
About
908 Devices is a rapidly scaling medical devices company. They currently have 150 staff and are increasing their headcount by 6-8 people every month. They manufacture battery-operated, hand-held chemical detection tools used in mass spectrometry.
Problem
As a rapidly growing company, demand for parking at 908 Devices had begun to greatly outstrip supply.
As the company scaled, more and more employees were being forced to pay for parking off-site out of their own pockets everyday. This was causing tension as staff often reported large amounts of empty parking spaces on-site at the office.
A culture had emerged where staff without parking privileges would stop by the office as their first port of call to see if there were any spare spaces available. However, due to a lack of a transparent way of communicating availability, a lot of early morning stress was ensuing.
As an expanding company, 908 Devices were keen to underpin their growth in headcount with a robust and transparent system for managing parking before it spiralled even further out of control.
“Employees are saving a massive amount of time in the morning. Staff used to arrive in the morning, they’d be ringing upstairs and often running around trying to find someone who could tell them where they could park. All this hassle has been totally eliminated now”
– Ritu Joshi, Executive Assistant, 908 Devices
Solution
908 Devices rolled out the full Wayleadr solution to manage all aspects of their employee parking including reservation management, automated management and real-time availability.
The company amplified the impact through Slack, the internal communications platform. Leveraging this software to drive home the positive results and impact of Wayleadr and how it was helping everyone.
“Wayleadr was a solution that 908 Devices really needed. We had tried so many different alternative ways of managing parking but nothing was really working out. Wayleadr literally made all the problems go away overnight”
– Ritu Joshi, Executive Assistant, 908 Devices
Key Benefits
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908 Devices’ employee car park is now almost always at 100% occupancy. -
Employees who need parking are almost always catered for, meaning that off-site payments have almost disappeared. -
The time & stress associated with employee parking has reduced massively. -
Up to 10 hours a week of manual parking management has been eliminated, freeing up staff time to focus on other issues.
“I used to leave the house every morning not knowing what was in store. I’d spend the first two hours of every morning dealing with parking. It can be stressful work telling some people that they aren’t allowed to park and it is easy to be perceived as picking favorites. Now with Wayleadr, this all happens like clockwork. There is a clear and transparent system which everybody has got behind”
– Ritu Joshi, Executive Assistant, 908 Devices
