Remote Collaboration

How to Tackle a Post-Lockdown Move to Microsoft Teams

Back in March, many organisations planned to adopt Microsoft Teams as their primary video communication platform found themselves either ‘stuck’ with their existing platform, were unable to update their meeting spaces or were forced to rapidly deploy a ‘make-do’ solution such as Zoom to support remote workers.
Now the government is calling for a return to the workplace and many organisations are considering how to move forward with their Teams migration.

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How IT Can Create Meetings That Boost Productivity

Meetings are essential part of working life for many organisations. But sometimes meetings can be seen by participants as time-wasting or unnecessary.
There are lots of great tips for organisers and participants to follow, but IT also has an influence on whether meetings are driving clear communication and productivity or becoming unwanted time sinks.

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Hybrid Remote Working - The benefits and the challenges

Remote working is the current normality for many offices, but as organisations plan for their return to the office, many are considering a hybrid remote working plan to keep employees safe and productive.
There are benefits and challenges that must be considered when planning an effective hybrid remote working environment. So we are taking a look at the positives, and the negatives from adopting this model

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93% of Senior US Law Partners Say Firm Suffers from “Productivity Loss” When People Work at Home

As part of their recent webinar “Leveraging Technology to Improve Your Firm’s Performance and Profitability” by the Managing Partner Forum, 149 US-based Senior Partners and Firm Leaders where surveyed to discover the impact of COVID-19 on their firms.
One surprise result was that according to the survey participants, the level of their firm’s productivity had suffered from staff working from home.

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Collaboration - Desktop to room and back again

The days of the humble desktop seemed numbered, despite it’s advantages in power and reliability as laptops, tablets and mobile phones become the new defacto tools of your average professional and office collaboration moved from the desktop to the room.

But then along came COVID.

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The Great Remote Working Experiment – Is WFH here to stay?

Many things about the current situation are uncertain, but it seems likely that the world won’t quite be the same again. This has been the great home working experiment, but what have we learnt and how might it change working norms once the world returns to normal?

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