Aerial view of an office car park with marked bays
Parking allocation · No spreadsheets

Still managing staff parking in a spreadsheet?

Most workplaces start there. But once you've got more staff than spaces, a spreadsheet creates more problems than it solves.

Three ways the spreadsheet lets you down

None of these are your fault. A spreadsheet isn't built for this problem.

It doesn't know who's on leave

Someone's on annual leave but they're still in the roster. Their bay sits empty all week. You only find out when a colleague rings to complain on Tuesday afternoon.

The same people always get the good spots

Without anything tracking history, whoever emails first — or has the most seniority — wins every time. After a few months, people notice. It stops being a parking problem and starts being a morale problem.

Someone has to own it every single week

That someone is usually the office manager, the EA, or whoever gets voluntold. Every Monday: update the spreadsheet, handle swap requests, send the email, fix the mistake you made in column D. It's 90 minutes nobody budgeted for.

Spreadsheet vs parkshare.work

Not a close race.

Feature
Spreadsheet
parkshare.work
Knows who's on leave
Tracks fairness over time
Staff self-manage preferences
Handles swap requests
Slack / Teams summary
Searchable history
Time to run each week
1–2 hrs
2 min

What happens instead

Set up once. Run in seconds every week. Your team parks without the politics.

1

Add your spaces once

Enter your car park bays — type, location, accessible or EV. Takes about five minutes.

2

Staff set their own preferences

Team members log which days they need parking, any space preferences, and upcoming leave. No chasing people for information.

3

Run allocation in one click

Each week, hit run. The algorithm balances who's been parking and who hasn't, skips anyone on leave, and publishes the result. Done.

2 min

Average weekly allocation time

100%

Leave automatically excluded

0 emails

Needed to manage swaps

Team collaborating in a modern Australian office

Set up in under 10 minutes.
Run in two.

parkshare.work is built for Australian organisations that want parking sorted without the politics. Fair allocation, leave-awareness, and Slack or Teams notifications — all in one place.

  • No hardware or IT setup required
  • Works for 5 staff or 500
  • Built and hosted in Australia