From rigid desks to working anywhere, anytime. Work is being optimized and streamlined to extract the very best from each employee. And for some companies, that means returning to the office or working in a hybrid situation.

But as employees trickle back into workplaces, there has been an urgent need to learn how to use meeting room technology. In fact, 62 percent of all meetings are now in meeting rooms – roughly half of which also involve online participants.

Considering how disjointed employees have been over the last few years, Jabra launched an inquiry into the return-to-office, and more precisely, the return-to-meeting-room conundrum, revealing the largest barriers for employees and decision-makers.

Everyone Thinks Differently

Millions of minutes are lost due to technical meeting issues. With 1 in 10 meeting rooms equipped with video technology, half of workers admit that they’d rather join a meeting from home or take a meeting in the office from their desk than burden themselves with confusing technology.

To make matters worse, only 15 percent of employees have access to video cameras for online meetings; that’s 100 million meeting rooms worldwide without video equipment.

Considering these findings, it’s clear to see the detrimental effect on the 41 percent of employees who agree that being on video helps counter the feeling of not being as involved as when they’re physically present.

It also highlights employee concerns that not seeing their teammates on video makes them less able to trust and build relationships with them. In fact, employees at high-trust companies report 70 percent less stress, 50 percent higher productivity, 13 percent fewer sick days, and 76 percent more engagement.

With benefits like that, every organization should ensure people can build strong networks and relationships.  The only way to create a life-like connection in hybrid working environments is by providing optimized meeting rooms with clear audio and high-quality video.

Employees are Unhappy at the Office. It’s Time to Help Them

Some ad-hoc solutions have cropped up in recent years that install some equipment, flick a switch, and then leave. Businesses desperately need a comprehensive solution that optimizes meeting rooms, boosts collaboration, and creates a positive workplace. This is where Symity can help guide organizations to transform.

For companies with Microsoft Teams Premium, employees don’t need additional software to transcribe, record, or store files from meetings. The Teams Room solution lets them collaborate, chat, and share files in a meeting and return days later to find everything still there.

Struggling to summarize a two-hour-long meeting? Users can ask the solution to summarize key points from a meeting. With its intelligent hardware, the solution can even recognize voices within a transcription, making everyone’s job that much easier.

Revolutionizing Collaboration for Companies Everywhere

This is where Microsoft Teams Rooms really shines. Combined with your Microsoft Teams solution, not only can you have a more collaborative meeting experience where everyone can be both seen and heard. All your business applications, such as Word, PowerPoint, and Excel, can be used in one place. This means that when you leave the meeting, your collaborative work is saved, and you can then continue to develop that work outside of the meeting.

What’s more, by using Microsoft Teams Meeting Room Pro and Teams Premium, organizations can unlock a rich set of enhanced AI features:

In Teams Rooms Pro, the solution lets organizations take advantage of:

  • Enhanced Security
  • Enhanced Device Management
  • Intelligent Audio and Video
  • Front Row and Together Mode
  • Engage with Chat and Loop components.

With Teams Premium, organizations can benefit from:

  • Intelligent Recap – A feature that leverages AI to automatically provide a comprehensive overview of your meeting, helping users save time catching up and coordinating next steps.
  • Speaker Timeline Markers – To show who spoke during a meeting and when they spoke and allow users to jump to that moment.
  • Background Watermarking – This allows you to watermark the background of your meeting to make sharing NDA information more challenging.
  • Advanced Virtual Appointments – Providing customers with a personalized end-to-end experience with pre-appointment SMS reminders, a branded lobby room, and a frictionless way to join by web browser.

Companies can begin with a consultation with Symity, who then reviews the meeting room space to install tailored technology that is continuously managed and checked for security. Not one to leave teams in the dark, Symity also trains employees to use the meeting room system so everyone has the confidence to walk into any meeting space.

However, technicalities aren’t the only aspect Symity covers. With Microsoft’s ‘Copilot’ AI coming to Teams, they’re also working hard at digesting all the information related to this to help customers prepare and ready their businesses for this truly transformative shift in the way people work in the future.

Collaboration is being transformed for companies everywhere, and Symity has installed over 2000 meeting rooms in over 42 countries. As a Microsoft Pure Play Partner, they’ve helped over 250,000 people use Teams as well as supported many adoption and change programs.

Organizations can book a chat with Symity today to discuss a Symity Microsoft Teams Room Package.



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