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Managing deliveries at reception

Parcels arrive at the same desk as visitors and usually get less care. A step-by-step process for logging, notifying, storing and handing over deliveries, with a clear trail and a plan for the ones nobody collects.

Analysis

What hybrid work did to reception

Reception was designed for a stable building: staff who were always there and visitors who were the exception. Where attendance varies by the day, staff start to look like visitors, desk booking overlaps sign-in, and some front desks go unstaffed.

Analysis

Front-desk software is becoming facility infrastructure

The reception tablet was bought as a convenience. Once security, facilities and data protection start relying on its records, it is infrastructure, and it needs an owner, a failure plan and change control to match.