In a 10-floor office building with 300 employees per floor, 3000 employees arrive between 7-8 AM and wait for 3 lifts to go to their cubicles. People are experiencing long wait times. How would you optimize the lift algorithms to improve employee satisfaction, considering you have full control over all practical aspects of the lifts?

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Optimize lift usage to reduce wait times for employees entering a 10-floor building.

Implement a smart scheduling system that prioritizes lifts based on the number of people waiting on each floor.
Introduce a destination dispatch system where employees select their floor before entering the lift, grouping them by destination.
Increase the number of lifts during peak hours or consider adding express lifts that service only certain floors.
Utilize real-time data to adjust lift allocation dynamically based on the flow of employees entering the building.
Encourage staggered arrival times for employees to reduce the peak load on lifts.

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