Overview
With Interactive Workplace Maps, employees can find what they need to be successful at work. In addition to desks and coworkers, the map will enable employees to see the location of meeting rooms, visitor areas, delivery areas, and more.
Maps are especially useful for employees visiting other offices who need to find their way around.
Subscription note: All Workplace plans and Visitors Standard and above have the ability to upload Maps. Rooms, Desks, and Parking [Beta] are only available on Workplace Premium and above. Learn more about our pricing.
Benefits
Make the workplace experience more seamless throughout the day by using interactive maps on the Envoy app.
Search the map on your mobile device for the things you need around the office such as Rooms, Desks, Neighborhoods, Parking [Beta], Delivery areas, Printers, Emergency exits, co-workers and more.
Plan out your workspace and understand its usage.
Display a live, responsive map on a touchscreen using Envoy's Map Digital Signage.
Share Workplace Schedules
If your team needs to see which employees are on site, have an assigned desk, or have reserved a desk for the day via the Interactive Workplace map, you must enable our Share Workplace Schedules feature. This allows employees to see each other's scheduled days/desks. Under the web dashboard, an admin can navigate to Workplace > Settings > Employees to toggle this feature on, see here for more info.
Map Setup Process for Admins
Admins can create and build interactive workplace maps for each location and place desks, visitor areas, and deliveries. They can also draw meeting rooms to a custom shape and size.
To create your map:
Navigate to the Maps section of your Envoy dashboard.
Click on Create a floor.
Give your floor a name.
Upload your floor map.
The Map image file-type must be .png or .jpeg
Adding resources to your map
Navigate to the Maps tab in your Envoy dashboard.
Click on the Edit map tab at the top of the page.
Select the floor you are working on.
Place your resources such as your desks, rooms, visitor and delivery areas by selecting them from the Add resources tab.
Adding Rooms to your map
Navigate to Maps > Edit Maps.
On the right side panel, under Resources, click on Rooms.
Click on the map to start drawing the shape of your room. Place a dot for each corner of your room and connect the dots to finish drawing.
You can adjust these dots as needed to properly outline your room.
After putting in 3 dots it will direct you to connect the dots to complete the shape of the room.
Once the dots are connected, the Room details will populate in the right panel.
Select the Room name from the list of rooms you have enabled in your connected Google or Microsoft Calendars.
Be sure to toggle on Enable room to make that room available for booking
Click Save.
Check out our Rooms article for more information about connecting your calendar and creating Room resources.
Adding Neighborhoods to your map
Creating neighborhoods
If you haven't created neighborhoods (via neighborhood field on the desks CSV upload), or want to add more, you can do so on the Neighborhoods page.
Navigate to Maps > Neighborhoods.
Click on Create Neighborhood.
Give your neighborhood a name.
Click Create.
Click Edit on your new neighborhood to view details.
Optional: To restrict the neighborhood to certain employees, add their names here.
You can add as many employees as possible, but ensure there are enough desks for everyone. These employees will only be able to reserve desks in their assigned neighborhood(s).
Color code your Neighborhoods
You can assign a unique color to each neighborhood, which shows on all the desks within that neighborhood. This makes it easy to visualize different departments or seating groups!
Navigate to Live map, then click Edit Map.
Click on any desk you wish to edit to bring up the Desk details panel.
Assign a Neighborhood (if one is not assigned), then click view.
Under Neighborhood details, you can see the designated color, desk count, who can sit there, and how many desks are on each floor.
Click on the color box to open a slider. Change the hue and intensity by adjusting your mouse or key in a hex code for an exact match.
Make sure to click Save after making changes.
Check out our Neighborhoods article for more information on setting up neighborhoods.
Adding Desks to your map
Navigate to Maps > Live Map > Edit Map.
On the right side panel, under Bookable resources, click on Desks.
Place your desk on the map by clicking where you want the desk to be located.
Edit your desk details (right panel):
Name your desk.
Assign a Neighborhood. (optional)
Assign an employee to that desk. (optional)
Assign desk amenities. (optional)
Be sure to toggle on Enable desk to make that desk available for booking.
Click Save.
Check out our Desks article for more information on creating Desks and assigning amenities.
Managing Seating with Insights
By using your occupancy data, you can get insights into employee habits to assign desks accordingly.
Navigate to Maps > Live Map > Edit Map.
Select Manage Seating from the right side panel.
Click on Insights to reveal data on employee habits. When this is enabled, the Insights button will be purple. To disable, just click Insights again to hide.
For more in-depth information on how Insights works, check out our Space Planning with Insights guide.
Assigned Desks and Neighborhood Filter in Edit Mode
Desks: We show the profile photos or initials of assigned desks to distinguish between assigned, hotel, and blocked/disabled desks. If a desk without an employee assigned is disabled, it will not show on the live map. Green desks are available for anyone to book.
Neighborhoods: Just click on the Neighborhoods dropdown menu and select which neighborhood you would like to view. Select all to see a fully color-coded map of all neighborhoods on the floor.
Adding Parking [Beta] to your map
Navigate to Maps > Live Map then select Edit Map.
On the right side panel, click on Add resources > Parking.
Once you place a spot, a parking details panel will open on the right-hand side. Here, you can permanently assign employees and assign amenities.
Click Save to publish your map.
Learn more about Parking [Beta].
Adding Visitor Areas to your map
Navigate to Maps > Live Map then select Edit Map.
On the right side panel, click on Add resources > Visitor Area.
Place your visitor area by clicking a space on the map.
Edit your visitor area details (right panel):
Visitor area name.
Toggle Enable visitor area on.
Click Save.
Adding Delivery Areas to your map
Requires an active Envoy Deliveries area
Navigate to Maps > Live Map then select Edit Map.
On the right side panel, click on Add resources > Delivery Area.
Place your delivery area by clicking a space on the map.
Edit your delivery area details (right panel):
Select your delivery location from the drop-down menu.
Toggle Enable delivery area on.
Click Save.
Check out this article to learn more about Delivery Areas.
Adding POIs to your map
Navigate to Maps > Live Map then select Edit Map.
Click on Add resources on the right side of the map and select any or our Points of interest, or create a custom one.
Click on the map where you want to place the resource.
Give the resource a name or keep the default name, if you'd like, then add any necessary notes.
Repeat steps 5-8 as many times as you need to add all of your POIs to your map.
If you want to add a POI that's not listed, select "Custom", give the POI a name and add relevant notes. Employees will see a generic icon on the map where you've placed this custom POI. Some of our favorites custom POIs are:
Water fountain or dog water station (if your office is pet-friendly)
Music or Art rooms
Gym
Office supplies
Cleaning supplies
Be sure to click Save once you are done.
Check out our article about Points of Interest on Maps for more information on setting up your POIs.
Deleting Resources from your map
Navigate to Maps > Edit Maps.
Click on the resources you would like to delete.
On the right side panel, click the Trash icon.
Map version history
You can see past versions of published maps by using the Version history feature. This provides a view-only snapshot of previous workplace configurations.
✨Note: This feature was released Jan 30, 2025, and will only show versions published after this date. ✨
To view:
Navigate to Maps, then click Edit map to access the map editor.
In the upper right-hand menu, you should see the Version history icon.
Click on the icon to open up a side panel. This panel groups changes by date and then further specifies changes by admin. If a date has multiple changes, click the > sign to expand the menu.
Clicking the admin's name whose edits you wish to see will change the version shown.
Hovering over desks or amenities will display more information about the resource.
FAQ for Admins:
The Edit Map tab is only available to admins and neighborhood captains.
Resources are grayed out if you do not have that product set up.
You will have to set up a map for each location in your Envoy account.
Make sure to select the correct location from the location picker in the top left corner of your Envoy dashboard.
Some elements of the web version of the map will be read-only. Taking actions, like booking a meeting room on map, is only available on the mobile version.
Admins can only place Rooms on the map that are connected to their calendars via Google or Microsoft.
Visitor areas can have a custom name. Deliveries names will be pulled from the delivery areas you've previously set up.
Can you search on the mobile map for employees who are assigned desks but have not checked in?
All employees will show up in the search result list. If an employee has an assigned desk OR a reserved desk for the day you are searching, then tapping on the result will take you to their desk.
If I toggle off "Share Workplace Schedule," are employees still searchable?
Employees will still appear in the search results, but once you click on the person, the app will show a “Not available to show on map” message.
Can you search your workplace map on the web dashboard?
No, you can only search on Envoy mobile.
When adding POIs to your map, you are not able to customize icons or add images, but you can choose from a predefined list of POI types, including custom POIs, name the POI, and add notes.
Using Interactive Workplace Maps
Live Map in the Web dashboard
The live map will show you the live workplace map and can be filtered by date, employee name and floor number.
Your assigned Desk will be highlighted in Red when loading the Live Map. Using the drop-down menus, you can filter between Available Desks and Rooms.
Available Desks will be shown on the Map in green and can be booked by clicking Book Desk. This will change your currently assigned desk.
Available Rooms will be shown on the Map in green, while occupied rooms will be red.
Booking a Room from the Live Map is available on the Mobile App or touchscreen kiosk.
✨Tip: If your neighborhoods are restricted to certain employees or employee groups, they will NOT appear as bookable desks on the Live map to those not in that neighborhood. ✨
Live Maps on Mobile
On the mobile app, you can filter and search for resources such as Rooms, Desks, Delivery areas, Visitors areas and Points of Interest.
Rooms
Employees can search for resources on the map.
See on the map which rooms are currently available (shown in green), unavailable (in red), or non-bookable (in grey).
Tap on an available meeting room (marked in green) to book it for an impromptu meeting.
Employees can filter for rooms based on availability, floor number, amenities and capacity.
Desks
Find and book available desks on the map.
Book desks by the hour.
See where your co-workers are sitting.
Check out this article to learn more about booking a desk on mobile.
Visitors
Invite visitors from the map.
View visitors' sign-in status.
Tap on a visitors area to see more details of a visitor who has checked in.
Deliveries
See delivery areas and mailrooms on the map.
See delivery details.
Mark packages as picked up.
Points of Interest
Safety:
AEDs
Emergency Exits
Fire Extinguishers
First aid
Workplace amenities:
Break rooms
Cafes
Delivery areas
Kitchens
Mother's rooms
Printers
Visitor areas
Facilities:
Accessible
Elevators
Restrooms
Stairs
Custom POIs:
These are based on what you decide to add to the map.