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Week in Review: Automated AV, COVID-19 IT Impact, etc.

This week, May 18-22, 2020: fully automating rooms, how COVID-19 is impacting IT departments, surveys on working from home, and more.

May 22, 2020 Jonathan Blackwood Leave a Comment

Welcome to My TechDecisions Week in Review, where we round up the most important stories you might have missed this week, May 18-22, 2020. Read on to find out what’s happening this week:

 

Features

Making Your Hands Free Room Fully Automated with AV
With AI and turnkey solutions reducing cost and enhancing end-user experience, fully automated hands free rooms in most meeting spaces are now within reach.

Why Many Digital Transformation Efforts Fail and What To Do Instead
Red Hat Summit speakers say a mismanagement of the most valuable resource — people — is what causes most digital transformations to fail.

How COVID-19 is Changing the Cybersecurity and IT Workforce
The COVID-19 is changing how organizations should recruit, hire and train IT and cybersecurity professionals to help the overburdened workforce.

 

Blogs

Take Our IT Pro WFH Survey and Win a WFH Product Package
We want to learn more about how IT Pros and their organizations are handling remote workers and work from home environments. Fill out our survey and three respondents will win a package of WFH products from Belkin and Linksys.

Here’s the Application to Have Your PPP Loans Forgiven
The U.S. Small Business Administration has published an application to allow businesses to have their PPP loans forgiven.

IBM Study: 54% Want Permanent Remote Work
According to an IBM survey on how COVID-19 has changed behavior, 54% of U.S. adults want remote work to be their primary way of working.

 

News

Almost All Workers are Distracted by Audio Pain Points,
Survey finds most common audio pain points, including being disturbed by loud colleagues, and overall office noise level.

Microsoft Announces New Teams Features During Build Conference
As Teams usage skyrockets due to COVID-19, Microsoft is releasing new features for collaboration, digital events, and remote working improvements.

CompTIA COVID-19 Survey Finds Tech Firms Anticipate August Return to Normal Business Levels
A majority of IT and tech firms are eyeing a return to some kind of normalcy by August, according to a new survey from IT trade association CompTIA.

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Jonathan Blackwood
Jonathan Blackwood

Jonathan Blackwood is the Editor-in-Chief of TechDecisions. Jonathan joined TechDecisions in 2014 and writes about technologies that help to innovate and improve practices for companies of all sizes, K-12 and higher education, government, healthcare, hospitality, retail and large venue spaces. He is especially interested in the future of work and education and the Internet of Things. Follow him @BlackwoodTweets.

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