desk.ly is a workplace management platform for hybrid work. Employees book desks, meeting rooms and parking spaces through an interactive floor plan, an app or Microsoft Teams, with filters by equipment, waiting lists and custom booking rules. The platform also offers visitor management, presence visualisation and utilisation analytics for office space based on software-based measurement. Administrators configure the system themselves. It is delivered as SaaS.
desk.ly GmbH is headquartered in Osnabrück, Germany. The website names no parent company. According to the vendor, data is hosted in data centres in Frankfurt am Main, and a data processing agreement under the GDPR can be requested. The system deliberately avoids employee-monitoring features and offers anonymisation options, which can make it easier to obtain works council approval. For a European organisation this is a service under German and European law; it is still worth asking which sub-processors are used.