How MinebeaMitsumi ended the morning search for a place to sit despite fewer desks

MinebeaMitsumi Technology Center Europe GmbH is the largest motor development center within the global network of the Japanese MinebeaMitsumi group.

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Time saved

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Setup time

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The Challenge: Moving to modern work without outdated tools

MinebeaMitsumi's building in Villingen-Schwenningen is currently being rebuilt floor by floor for modern work: fewer fixed desks, a higher shared-desk ratio, plus two to three days of mobile work per week with freely chosen office days. For the rebuild, entire areas were cleared out and departments merged. Suddenly, two different organizational units shared one space, including the need to sort out who sits where, and when.

The existing tools quickly reached their limits: a booking tool developed in-house during the Covid pandemic by a colleague who has since retired could neither be extended nor administered, and new employees could no longer be added. Workarounds such as Excel lists and verbal agreements proved error-prone, scattered, and hard to keep track of.

In addition, IT required a lean solution: within the 16-person IT team, around four people handle user support. The new tool couldn't come with complex administration, had to be easy to hand over immediately to a deputy, and had to offer seamless integration into the group's Google Workspace environment.

The Decision: Why MinebeaMitsumi chose PULT

After comparing several providers and testing via a demo account, PULT won out on three central factors:

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Intuitive simplicity instead of overengineering. The tool is built so that administration and everyday use work without time-consuming training.

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Seamless Google Workspace integration. Single sign-on (SSO) via the Google account and the calendar connection were a basic requirement, as Google Workspace is the group's central collaboration platform. Bookings and office days are visible directly in the calendar.

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Scalability & a convincing price-performance ratio. The team sets up new Offices on its own, without any support effort. Additional locations are easy to integrate.

PULT in Action: Fast setup & smart role-based access

The technical setup was done in one to two hours: PULT was integrated into the Google Workspace environment via domain-wide delegation. Employees have signed in comfortably via Google SSO ever since, with no additional passwords.

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Area-specific visibility & safety benefits

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Team-specific mapping. In Villingen-Schwenningen, the offices are mapped by department (purchasing, development, mechanical design, IT, HR). Employees see and book specifically the desks in their own area.

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Safety in an emergency. HR and first aiders have access to all areas. In an emergency, it is immediately transparent who is actually in the building.

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Lean onboarding. New users receive a link, are assigned to their Office, and are ready to go in under 20 minutes.

The Neu-Isenburg site runs PULT with full user synchronization, fixed desk assignments, Meeting Rooms booking, and integrated Visitor Management.

The Results: Measurable value in day-to-day work

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Transparency & time savings. Desks are usually booked for the entire week in advance. That saves each employee around 15 minutes per day in coordination and search time.

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Seamless onboarding. New team members are fully up and running in 20 minutes at most.

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Data-driven utilization analysis. Concrete reports disproved the workforce's concern that fewer desks would mean no free desk.

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High user adoption. Departments actively ask to start using PULT even before their floor is rebuilt. The second site in Neu-Isenburg also chose PULT after running its own comparison (244 users).

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Live overview for support & safety. From static PDF plans to a dynamic live system: IT support immediately sees an employee's current desk when a request comes in.

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All I hear is: it's easy. It makes our planning easier.
Ulrike Held
Google Workspace Administration
The technical setup took an hour or two, really. After two or three hours we were able to start with a test group.
Ulrike Held
Google Workspace Administration
I'm personally a fan of tools that just work, where I don't have to think twice when I administer them. I cover 15 different areas, and PULT is only a very small part of that. If I first have to get my head back into complex administration, that's no use to me.
Ulrike Held
Google Workspace Administration