Customer case · Flexible workspace

Digital signage for coworking
spaces: Bureaux & Co

Bureaux & Co designs flexible workspaces: private offices, coworking and meeting rooms. Since 2021, 16 screens driven by EMITY have guided visitors, announced what is happening on site and given visibility to the services at each location, in France and in Spain.

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Flexible workspace · France and Spain

The case in brief

Selling square metres is easy, making the services visible is not

A flexible workspace sells two things: square metres and services. The square metres are there to be seen; the services are not. A free meeting room, a members’ breakfast, a new registered-address offer: without something to carry them, they stay in a newsletter nobody opens.

That is the problem Bureaux & Co chose to solve with screens. From 2021 the operator rolled out 16 screens driven by EMITY across its spaces: private offices, coworking and meeting rooms. Not to decorate a lobby, but to keep members informed, announce events and give visibility to the businesses based on site.

16

screens driven by EMITY

2021

first year of the roll-out

2

countries on the same account

1

dashboard for every site

Who the client is

A network of flexible workspaces, in France and in Spain

Bureaux & Co designs and runs flexible workspaces: private offices, bespoke offices, coworking, meeting rooms, registered addresses and event spaces. The model rests on shared premises where the facilities are pooled and where business owners cross paths.

Figures taken from bureauxandco.fr on 13 August 2026: the operator reports more than 180 coworking spaces and more than 40,000 members and coworkers welcomed. It has sites in Montpellier, Béziers, Perpignan, Marseille, Aix-en-Provence, Nantes, Rennes, Lyon, Deauville and Malakoff, as well as Girona in Spain, and offers its model as a franchise.

Those figures are the client’s own, at the date shown; the scope fitted out by EMITY is the one described on this page: 16 screens, since 2021.

  • ✓Private offices and bespoke offices
  • ✓Coworking by the day or by the year
  • ✓Meeting rooms and event spaces
  • ✓Registered addresses and business addresses
  • ✓A franchise network, France and Spain

The starting point

Three constraints specific to a shared workspace

Before talking about screens, here is what the operator of a flexible workspace actually has to solve.

The people on site change every day

A member on an annual contract, a coworker passing through, a visitor here for a one-hour meeting: none of the three reads an internal memo. The information has to reach them where they walk, without asking them to go looking for it.

The services are invisible

A free room, a registered-address slot, an evening event, a new offer: what is not seen is not used. That is revenue already sitting on site, waiting only to be announced.

Several sites, one team

Around ten locations and two countries: repeating the same poster site by site does not scale. You compose once, choose where the information goes, and let each site keep its own messages.

On site

What the 16 screens show, position by position

Three positions, three uses that have nothing in common: that is what separates a network of screens from a notice board.

Portrait screen at the reception of a business centre showing a meeting room and its time

At reception: guiding without repeating

Visitors see their room and their time as they arrive, so the front desk no longer answers the same question ten times over. The same screen then carries site notices and the news of the day.

Entrance hall

Screen beside a glazed meeting room door showing the room in use until 3.30 pm

At the rooms: showing the status, not a timetable

One screen beside the door is enough: the room name, in use or free, and the time it comes free again. The information comes from the booking schedule, so it updates itself.

Meeting room

Three people talking in the shared kitchen of a coworking space in front of a screen announcing the lunchtime food truck

In the shared areas: keeping the community alive

Kitchen, breakout space, landing: that is where members stop. A food truck at lunchtime, drinks on Thursday, something new from a neighbour on the floor — the content lives by the day.

Shared areas

Photographs of the roll-out

Two screens in service, photographed on site

These two photographs have accompanied the case since it was published. They are not staged: they are the screens as installed.

Shared area at Bureaux & Co with a wall-mounted screen and the operator's monogram

A shared area at Bureaux & Co: high table, breakout corner and a wall-mounted screen, below the operator’s monogram.

Wall-mounted screen in a catering area announcing the day's offer and its opening hours

A screen in a catering area on site, announcing the day’s offer and its opening hours. The site is in France, so the screen is in French.

The client’s words

What Bureaux & Co says about it

Two quotes from Hicham, head of digital strategy, reported as they were given.

“We didn’t master the subject, but EMITY gave us great advice and was able to answer our questions.”

Hicham
Head of digital strategy, Bureaux & Co
Translated from French.

“We are very satisfied (…). The EMITY solution is deployed in all our spaces (…) and we know that with EMITY’s developments, we can go even further.”

Hicham
Head of digital strategy, Bureaux & Co
Translated from French.

The argument to keep

When the screen becomes a service sold to members

  • ✓Visibility sold to members, on a screen that is already installed
  • ✓Scheduled slots by site, by screen and by time of day
  • ✓Artwork composed in the EMITY built-in editor — and, if your teams already use them, in Canva or Adobe Express
  • ✓Live content slotted between messages: news, weather, social media
  • ✓The operator keeps control of the scheduling, from the first screen to the last

A surface that needs filling all year round

A printed poster is invoiced once. A screen needs content as the seasons, the arrivals and the events go by: that is what makes it a workable advertising surface over time. The 20 widgets in the Excellence plan — IPTV, PowerBI and social media among them — feed that schedule with no extra work: see the plans.

How it unfolded

From a press article to 16 screens

01

Found through a press article

The Bureaux & Co team came across EMITY — then Wepub — in an article about the company’s history. No cold call, no trade show: a read.

02

Testing the software and the player

The setup was tried before any commitment: E-MANAGER to drive the screens remotely, E-BOX to connect them on site. It was the advice and the answers to the technical questions that settled the choice.

03

16 screens across the spaces

The screens went in where people walk: reception, meeting rooms, shared areas. The roll-out followed the operator’s growth, in France and then abroad.

04

In-house advertising and live content

Once the display was running smoothly the use widened: resident businesses given prominence, live information, event announcements. The screen became a channel in its own right.

The comparison

What the screen changes in a shared workspace

The subject is not the technology: it is the difference between information that goes out of date and information that updates itself.

With a notice board With a managed network of screens
A room that frees up Nobody knows until they open the door The door screen shows the status and the time it frees up
A community event A poster to print, put up, then take down A dated schedule that removes itself
One notice across ten sites Ten sendings, ten print runs, ten put-ups One message composed once, sent by group of sites
A little-known service A mention in a newsletter A regular reminder where members stop
A resident business to promote Nothing in place An advertising slot, scheduled by screen and by time

And for you

What this case says to operators of shared premises

A business centre, a coworking space, an office building, a head office shared by several subsidiaries: the same question comes up as soon as a building hosts people who do not all work for the same organisation.

Across the whole estate, EMITY now connects more than 7,000 screens for more than 1,000 customer accounts, in more than 20 countries, supported by more than 130 certified distribution partners.

Digital signage for companies

Internal communication, reception, meeting rooms: the company case, and the platform that drives the screens.

Meeting rooms and visitors

The two modules a flexible workspace uses most: meeting room booking and the visitor guest book.

Buildings and other customer cases

The same subject at building scale: digital signage in buildings, and the other customer cases.

Frequently asked questions

Digital signage for coworking spaces, in practice

Three positions cover the essentials: one screen at reception to guide visitors, one screen per meeting room to show whether it is free, and one screen in the shared areas — kitchen, breakout space, landing — for community news. Bureaux & Co runs 16 in total. EMITY accounts range from 1 to 1,000 screens, so a pilot site starts with two or three screens and the same pattern is then repeated.

The screen beside the door shows the room name, whether it is in use and the time it becomes free again. The information comes from the booking schedule, so it updates itself: no sheet to reprint, and no meeting starting in a room that is already taken. That is the purpose of the meeting room booking module, managed from the same dashboard as the screens.

Yes, and it is the heart of the matter for a network of flexible workspaces. E-MANAGER groups screens by site and by group: a general message goes out across the whole network at once, while local information stays on its own site. Bureaux & Co operates in France and in Spain, on the same platform on both sides of the border.

That is precisely what Bureaux & Co has set up: an in-house advertising service that lets the businesses based in the building present their products and services to the other members. The operator keeps control of the scheduling — which message, on which screen, at which time — and the content is composed in the EMITY built-in editor, with no third-party software.

Not always. Digital signage rests on two building blocks: software and a screen. When the screen can run the application by itself — professional Android TV, Tizen or webOS models — E-SOFT is installed directly on it. The E-BOX player becomes useful when the screen cannot run anything on its own, or when the display calls for 4K and synchronisation. Bureaux & Co started with E-MANAGER and E-BOX together.

Connecting a screen takes minutes once the network is available: the screen identifies itself in the dashboard and the first schedule goes out straight away. What takes time is not the technical side but deciding what to show. A remote demonstration on your own positions — reception, meeting rooms, shared areas — is the shortest way to see it clearly.

Let’s talk about your spaces

A lobby, meeting rooms, a shared kitchen? A demonstration runs remotely, on your own positions, and in half an hour you will know which two or three screens are worth putting up first.