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Distance Education: What We Learned, What Works and What Doesn’t

Preconceived notions are out the window as education institutions embrace equity, inclusion and multi-modal learning.

December 7, 2022 Joe Way Leave a Comment

Editor’s Note: MyTechDecisions’ sister-site Commercial Integrator has teamed up with the IMCCA, the New York-based non-profit industry association for unified communication and workplace collaboration, to produce a quarterly supplement, titled Collaboration Today and Tomorrow, that focuses on all things collaboration from multiple perspectives. On March 13, 2020, the president declared a national emergency in response to the […]

AWS Launches Verified Access for VPN-less Secure Remote Access

AWS Verified Access is built using Zero Trust Security principles and leverages multiple security inputs to grant access to applications.

December 1, 2022 Zachary Comeau Leave a Comment

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is launching the preview of AWS Verified Access, a new secure connectivity service designed to allow employees to enable local or remote secure access for corporate applications without a VPN. The company says Verified Access is built using the AWS Zero Trust Security principles and leverages multiple security inputs to grant […]

End Users are Underequipped for Remote Videoconferencing

Effective distributed work and distraction-free videoconferencing requires better audio and video peripherals, Logitech research finds.

November 23, 2022 Zachary Comeau Leave a Comment

Remembering back to spring 2020 when COVID-19 first began impacting commerce, business leaders predicted a few short weeks of remote work to help stop the spread of the virus. As we know, those few weeks turned into multiple years. Because of that shortsightedness, organizations largely sent employees home with the bare minimum: their laptop and […]

Why Should Contact Centers Care About Employee Engagement in a Remote Environment?

Business leaders must be proactive about the engagement of their employees to make sure their organization is running smoothly and growing sustainably.

November 8, 2022 Courtney Cox Leave a Comment

There’s no such thing as “business as usual.” If anything, workplace processes are constantly being challenged and disrupted. Rapidly advancing technology, agile practices, and shifting regulations have all revolutionized our work. COVID-19 has accelerated this transformation over the last few years, driving change on all fronts—cultural, behavioral, organizational and everything in between. However, of the […]

More than 80% of Meetings Have At Least One Remote Participant

One person joining a meeting differently than everyone else changes the entire dynamic of that meeting, according to new Crestron research.

November 2, 2022 TD Staff Leave a Comment

New research from Crestron Electronics found that 84% of employees regularly have at least one remote meeting participant join their meetings, suggesting that organizations need more flexible and scalable hybrid work and meeting solutions. The Rockleigh, N.J.-based specialist in workplace collaboration technology, unveiled the findings of a new research report covering the modern workplace experience. […]

Cisco Creates Interconnected Hub for Hybrid Work in New Chicago Office

Once a post office building, Cisco's Chicago office is now a model workspace for UC&C and for the hybrid workforce with smarter spaces and safer environments.

October 24, 2022 Alyssa Borelli Leave a Comment

Cisco’s new office, located in Chicago’s oldest post office building—once an interconnected hub for all the city’s mail—is a 130,000-square-foot location equipped as a platform for innovation integrating new products, development and testing. Bringing together four different local offices under one roof, Cisco’s Chicago office has become the model for what a hybrid office experience […]

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Meeting Equity: How to Accomplish Post-Pandemic Workplace Satisfaction

Bose's Martin Bodley explains how to manage the transition from in-person to hybrid work in a collaborative and fair digital environment that works for everyone.

October 18, 2022 Martin Bodley Leave a Comment

For some, hybrid work has become the norm, with 91% of employees with “remote-capable jobs” — positions that could be accomplished fully or partially remote — preferring to work hybrid or remote versus being fully onsite. However, the initial swift change from fully in-person to partially or fully remote work has not arrived without some […]

How to Effectively Collaborate in a Hybrid Work Environment

Collaboration benefits business and employees; here's what you can do to foster better workplace collaboration among your team.

October 6, 2022 Peter Gandolfo Leave a Comment

While day-to-day life is much closer to what it was pre-pandemic, there’s been a seismic shift in how American knowledge workers do their jobs. Fifty-eight percent of Americans work from home at least once a week. It’s even more pronounced among tech workers, where 85% are fully remote or hybrid. In-person collaboration is no longer […]

Microsoft Teams Rooms, Microsoft Teams, Microsoft eCDN

Microsoft Launches New Enterprise Content Delivery Network Via Teams

Microsoft eCDN is a new standalone WebRTC-based enterprise content delivery network designed to enhance live video streaming using Teams.

September 8, 2022 Zachary Comeau Leave a Comment

Microsoft is introducing Microsoft eCDN, a new standalone WebRTC-based enterprise content delivery network offer designed to enhance live video streaming across an organization using Microsoft Teams. The Microsoft eCDN (Enterprise Content Delivery Network)—available for $0.50 per user per month with an annual subscription—allows organizations to seamlessly and securely live stream global meetings, all hands and […]

Future Collaboration Technology, Videoconferencing

The Future of Technology and Its Impact on Collaboration Workflows

Metrigy’s Irwin Lazar examines employee experience, optimizing collaboration workflows and the power of AR and VR.

September 6, 2022 Irwin Lazar Leave a Comment

Editor’s note: Our sister publication Commercial Integrator has teamed up with the IMCCA, the New York-based non-profit industry association for unified communication and workplace collaboration, to produce a quarterly supplement, titled Collaboration Today and Tomorrow, that focuses on all things collaboration from multiple perspectives. When I was asked to write a piece for the inaugural issue […]