Automate parking management like Alstom

Alstom Sydney has 55 spaces available and 200 staff who want regular parking access. Unsurprisingly, with 4 users to every 1 space, parking was a contentious issue in the office, it had a direct impact on employee satisfaction and company morale, so much so that Alstom had completely shut down any parking access before they found Wayleadr.

In the three years that Wayleadr has been in place, there have been over 48,000 booking requests by Alstom employees. However, more impressively even with a sustained 150% parking demand for parking on peak days, meaning a third of users get no parking on any given day, user satisfaction scores have remained in the range of 7-8 out of 10. Wayleadr’s allocation has ensured that parking is equaly given to groups of employees even with the high demand. The value of giving employees transparency, predictability and more equitable sharing of parking over the week is self-evident, compared to restricting who has parking access or leaving it as a race to park.

An important element to Alstom’s parking policy was how to account for partner and executive level employees who traditionally had ownership over parking spaces. The allocation of these spaces when they were not using them had led to, according to the administrator, them “becoming a parking attendant. It was incredibly time consuming and incredibly inefficient”. Wayleadr’s ability to allow for certain users to be given an assigned space and to release it for open availability, and booking by other staff, has resolved and automated this entire process.

Over the last three years, on average 12 spaces are being released by employees for other employees to make use of. More employees have the benefit of parking, the space is getting maximum utilisation and return for the company, and the administrator can dedicate all the gained time to more value driven work. With 2 hours a day given back to the admin, over a year that equates to 65 working days of time to use elsewhere.