A virtual office for one workspace
Remote teams lose the part of an office where you can see that somebody is at their desk. Piskes Space gives every workspace one shared floor plan: each person is a small round figure, and you watch each other move, change status and say things, as it happens.
The office
One fixed floor plan, the same for every workspace. Walls are walls and doors are doors, so you walk through the gap rather than through the plaster. The panel beside the map lists who is in and which room they are standing in.
Getting around
A virtual office where moving is a chore is one people open once. Here every way of getting somewhere takes one key or one click.
Click a spot on the map and your figure finds its own way there, around the desks and through the door. W A S D or the arrow keys work too, for the people who would rather steer. Everyone else in the office sees you walk, not jump.
Click a name in the list and you walk to stand beside them. No searching the map for a colour.
Follow a colleague and you keep up as they move between rooms. Esc, or any movement of your own, stops it.
Once eight or more people are in, a box filters the list as you type, and ignores Vietnamese marks: “bao” finds Bảo.
Saying things
Everything you say here disappears. If it needs to be kept, it belongs somewhere that keeps things.
Up to 200 characters, shown to everyone in the office for six seconds and then gone. It is relayed, never written down.
A wave, a thumbs up, a heart, a laugh, a celebration and a coffee, on keys 1 to 6. They float up over you and fade.
Available, busy or away, as a dot on your figure. Leave the tab in the background for five minutes and available turns to away until you come back.
Honestly
The last row is the one to read first if you came here from a virtual office that has voice.
| A chat channel | A video call left open | Piskes Space | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Who is around right now | A green dot per name | Whoever has not left | Where they are standing, and their status |
| Getting someone’s attention | A message they may read later | Talk over the meeting | Walk over and say something |
| What is kept afterwards | Everything, searchable | Nothing, unless recorded | Nothing |
| Cost of leaving it open all day | Low | A camera and a fan | A browser tab |
| Hearing the person beside you | No | Yes, and everyone else too | Not yet — no audio or video |
The limit to know first: there is no voice and no video. Standing next to someone does not open a call. It is planned, and it is not built, so if talking by walking up to people is the reason you are here, this is not ready for you today.
Questions
Not yet. Proximity audio and video are planned and not built. Today the office is presence, movement, status and short text bubbles, and nothing else.
No. Every workspace gets the same floor plan: a meeting room, a kitchen, a lounge and eight desks. Custom maps are written down as a later idea, not scheduled work.
No. The office is for members of the workspace. Guests are deliberately left out, because who can see your team moving around is a question to settle before anyone can walk in.
No. A bubble is passed to the people in the office and discarded. There is no chat history, no search and nothing to export, which is the point of it.
You are one person. The newest tab is the one in the office, and the older one offers a “Use here” button to take it back.
Nothing is charged today, because Piskes has not switched billing on and there is no paid plan to buy. When there is one, this page will say what it costs.
Sign in with your Piskes account and you are standing at the entrance of your workspace’s office. The people already in it are there when you arrive.