Businesses of all sizes face complex challenges including increasing competition, finding talent, shrinking budgets, and rising customer expectations. One way to stay agile while weathering challenging times is to have the flexibility of distributed workforces. When employees can connect and collaborate remotely, your business can continue to be competitive—or even gain a competitive advantage. Remote work policies can help you scale up or down as needed, hire talent who may not live near the office, provide a much-desired work benefit, and avoid disruptions in the case of emergencies.
As remote work becomes the new normal for many employees, even businesses with digital collaboration solutions already in place may find their systems lack the capabilities needed for truly seamless and more secure teamwork in or out of the office.
With so many employees spending so much time in meetings, it’s essential that those meetings be efficient and effective. If you have employees working from home, you must make sure digital meeting tools are simple, seamless, and more secure.
The Challenges of Digital Collaboration
When participants meet remotely without IT staff at the ready to help, it’s crucial that technology just works. Connection and latency issues, needing to download new web conferencing software, or having mysterious audio or video issues, can waste time, prevent remote attendees from fully engaging in the discussion, and appear unprofessional to customers and outside partners.
Additionally, employees may be using personal devices, which increases your business’s cybersecurity risks as team members share sensitive information in meetings.
Remote Work Calls for a New Approach to Collaboration
Cost-effective collaboration tools that build on existing solutions and are easy to manage and scale can help keep your team connected, adding to your business’s resiliency, even in challenging times. Easy-to-use, flexible digital collaboration solutions can give your team the tools they need to innovate. And you don’t have to start from scratch: the Intel Unite® solution is an easy-to-use collaboration solution that offers limitless customization and seamless integration with UC platforms. Architected for the future, it is continually evolving to meet new needs and new approaches to collaboration.
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