Effective virtual collaboration in the workplace

We all need to acknowledge the fact that the hybrid mode of working is not going to go away. We must acknowledge the presence and relevance of hybrid work for the long haul

- Ashok Pandey

The meeting rooms that we all built in our respective offices in 2019 and before, most of them were designed for different kinds of video collaborations, not the cloud-based collaborations we are using today. The pandemic changed things, now, the good news is you don’t have to break those rooms, you can make some subtle changes to ensure that those rooms adapt themselves to the new tools that are being deployed today. You don’t have to break the bank, you don’t have to break the room, there are solutions available. Anand Lakshmanan, Head of Video Collaborations, India and Southwest Asia, Logitech, discussed collaboration challenges, trends, and tech that can enhance our meeting experience.

▾ The challenges and tech enhancement/ developments

One of the first challenges that all of the organisations faced when the pandemic hit us was people carried out work wherever they went be it their home, hometowns, etc. So the IT teams had the responsibility of ensuring business continuity, business could not shut down because of the pandemic, which means reliance on technology was not going to come down, on the contrary, it was only increasing. So the IT teams had a massive responsibility of making sure that people use technology but from wherever they were to ensure business continuity ultimately which means overnight, not just hundreds but billions of them had to be provided tools that they would use to continue delivering their responsibilities from wherever they were.