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How to Run Effective Remote Meetings Over Teleconference
The shift towards remote work isn’t novel, it’s one of the determining trends of the future of work since the last decade. From small firms to large corporations, these businesses are fully embracing remote meetings. It’s now a common sight to see remote meetings between teams separated by thousands of…
Covid19: 5 Tips to Work Remotely and Stay Healthy
Gone are the days when remote working is typical of just mothers who want to spend more time with their kids and adventurers exploring the world. The rapid-fire spread of Covid19 has made fortune 500 companies like Amazon, Twitter, JPMorgan, Microsoft, Chevron, Google, and Spotify mandate their employees to work…
Going Remote and Increased Vulnerabilities: How Companies can secure their Collaboration Platforms and Data
Now more than ever, the vulnerabilities to the data of many businesses are more pronounced. With more companies mandating telecommuting for their workers in recent times, monitoring employees’ activities on collaboration platforms is a difficult feat. While collaboration tools make sharing data among employees seamless, oversharing sensitive data can make…
March 2020: What’s New with Microsoft Teams?
Digitalizing your office communication and collaboration system may be seemingly complicated if you consider the learning process involved and how to integrate your staff without hitch. Consequently, Microsoft Teams is one of the easy modern ways of collaboration and intelligent communication in the workplace. With features like gifs, likes, emoticons,…
Remote Workers: Left Behind By Technology
About 2/3 of employees that use a substantial amount of their time doing their job remotely say that their productivity increases when they work flexibly. Nevertheless, a lot of these team members struggle to unlock their potential in the digital landscape. This is as a result of issues with non-optimized…
Alone and Bored: How to Maintain Human Connection While Working from Home
A computer, phones, stable internet connection, collaboration tools, and other technical requirements are what makes you stay productive when working from home. However, it is important to factor in the boredom and loneliness that set in after the novelty of telecommuting has waned. This is because technology cannot completely replace…
IBM Goes All In For Slack
Slack and Microsoft have been closed in a metaphorical cage battle for the future supremacy of productivity communications. And a few days ago, IBM placed a massive bet on Slack. According to a report on business insider, IBM, a company based in Armonk, New York, just officially announced that it…
Impact of Old Enterprise Technology in a New Year on Your Productivity
Change they say is constant, everything on earth has to follow that rule. This isn’t limited to our personal lives, it (to a large extent) affect the way we make use of technology in business. There is a purpose for every new technology launched in the market; for every updated…
Microsoft Teams: More of a Work In Progress
Microsoft has had an age-long presence in the market with windows and office suite. Microsoft Teams, since its launch in 2016, has been taking quick strides in the collaboration world. It stands currently as one of the most popular team collaboration tools. The latest report reveals that Microsoft Teams has…
How Twilio and Be My Eyes is Bringing Team Collaboration to the Visually Impaired
Just recently, Twilio announced its partnership with the Be My Eyes Brand. Twilio is one of the giants in the cloud communication solutions market. Be My Eyes, on the other hand, is an app that assists visually impaired people to use smartphones. This partnership for many reasons is expected to…