A global pandemic, economic uncertainty and a sense of how her company could look after it’s people on their return to the office, drove StanleySt’s Talent & HR Manager, Yang Zhang-Farhi to investigate options for flexible use of their work car park.

StanleySt is one of New Zealand’s leading full service creative agencies, based in Parnell, Auckland. They have around 140 staff, and as with many urban centres around the world, parking is at a premium. Prior to COVID-19, they had been considering ways to maximise car park occupancy, as well as track who was using parks to enable “chargeback” to the team. They also wanted a solution that reduced admin time and was simple to use. 

Yang took to Google to research her options and found three similar service offerings, but quickly found that some providers either had too much complexity and/or were not competitively priced based on the simple features that StanleySt actually needed.

A decision was made to try out Flex Parking for free for 30 days, and straight from the outset the experience was awesome.

“The on-boarding experience with Flex was great. I especially liked how they created a custom instructional flyer that I could send to our team, to help them get up and running quickly with the app.”

As well as a very simple web-based admin interface, the mobile app for Android/Apple was very simple for the team to use, with an emphasis on user experience. Feedback from the team was:

StanleySt have seen average car park occupancy increase to 99% over the last 5 months, and more than 1000 shared parks, meaning significant cost savings for both the team and the business. Another bonus is that with flexible working post-Covid and less people consistently in the office, more people are guaranteed a parking spot more often. Happy people equal productive people!

And the best part according to Yang? 

“It has significantly reduced our admin teams time on managing staff parking, freeing them up to do higher value work...….for sure!”

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