It’s hard to get a good read on exactly what direction the latest trends are moving when it comes to remote work. One week a study says Return to Office trends are growing, the next week another study says remote and hybrid work models are here to stay. The only thing we can say for certain is that adaptability is crucial—you need to have an office environment and communications that connect employees seamlessly no matter where they are.
The foundation of a hybrid work environment is clear communication. Clear communication helps maintain productivity, fosters team cohesion, and minimizes misunderstandings that slow your business down.
While video conferencing solutions have long been a mainstay of remote communications, the technology has changed in recent years just as dramatically as our work habits. If you haven’t updated your office system in the last couple of years, you might be surprised at how much has changed.
Let’s look at some of the advances that are making hybrid work more friendly for everyone, exemplified in the solutions from our partner, Poly.
We know, you’ve heard enough about AI to last a lifetime. But this is one of the most practical applications of AI in technology, and it won’t take anyone’s job.
Poly has integrated AI technologies into its video conferencing products to vastly improve the audio and video experience in many ways you might not even notice at first. Automatic framing and tracking, for example, helps ensure that participants are always in view. Audio tools can not only cancel out unwanted noise, but also establish an acoustic perimeter to filter out peripheral sources of noise.
Poly also integrates seamlessly with HP computer products, extending many of their embedded AI functions, like automatically improving wifi connections, and automatically optimizing security protections. No, these AI functions won’t write your next business report, but they will eliminate a lot of the pre-meeting fiddling that used to be required to get a meeting started, and many of the little annoyances that drive meetings off track.
Because we’re spending so much more time in virtual meetings, Poly has made significant investments in key product features, including user-friendly interfaces, ease-of-installation, and scalability to support modular expansion.
Many of these features are particularly useful for smaller businesses without extensive IT resources. Poly offers devices that can be installed, set up and managed by non-technical staff—including devices that can be mounted magnetically, and run video conferences independently of a PC.
Poly devices can be run independently, or integrated with a host of other office equipment systems. They support Microsoft Teams, WebEx and Zoom, making them both versatile and intuitive for most users.
At Intech Southwest, we’re committed to our SMB customers. We know our customers want to focus on their core business, and don’t have the vast IT resources and budgets of large companies. Most of all, we know that every customer’s work environment and requirements are unique, and a one-size-fits-all solution usually doesn’t fit.
What we love about Poly is the not just the quality of their audio and video systems, but the range and flexibility of devices that allows us to tailor an advanced video conferencing system that we know we can scale with our customers as they grow, without breaking the bank.
If you haven’t upgraded your video conferencing system in a while, let us show you how much the world has changed. We can show you how to create a simple, integrated video conferencing solution your employees will find easy to use, with the confidence it can scale with your business and your budget.
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Contact Intech Southwest Services to learn more about what Intech’s team can do to elevate and simplify a variety of IT services for your school district, your company, or your individual office management needs so that you can focus on what you do best - running your organization.
