Walkabout Workplace: An Easy-to-Use Online Workplace

Based on a number of recent studies, the total number of people in the U.S. who work remotely on a regular basis is around 25 percent but is expected to grow to over 70 percent by 2025. A common problem with most of these workers is the lack of spontaneous face to face engagement, like being able to walk down the hall to ask a quick question and get a quick answer. Understanding this, Walkabout Workplace drives a paradigm shift in the collaboration landscape through the creation of virtual presence—a way to enable remote teams to spontaneously engage thereby creating a deeper sense of connection, commitment, understanding, and trust. “We transform virtual space into a very real place, inspiring innovation and expanding the possibilities of working together,” articulates Brad Richardson, Co-founder & CMO, Walkabout Workplace.

What Walkabout offers is not just a tool, but rather a unique online workplace. Simple-to-use, interactive, and browser-based, Walkabout’s collaboration platform facilitates remote communication via custom-designed and personalized virtual offices with unique features, such as a heads-up display which shows a three-dimensional office floor in addition to real time view of people and team status. This virtual presence makes intuitive engagement easy with HD video/ audio touch, screen share, and essentially provides instant access to everyone, from peers to clients as well as all their tools or applications, all from a single platform.

“It takes us less than 48 hours to set up an office and to get businesses up and running with an effective, virtual three-dimensional workspace,” explains Richardson. Walkabout also renders a strong adaptive training component—a select team of account managers—that executes the onboarding process while checking-in to the office to ensure that every worker is using it correctly. The onboarding package comprises a floor plan checklist that allows management to assign offices as well as an IT checklist where the client provides URLs which can either be linked or embedded into their floor plan for all applications that they use.