Blog posts by Kinly Global Marketing

The way we work together has been constantly changing over the years. We began by assigning each employee a fixed workspace. In the time that followed, we worked in spacious open-office environments — but that trend is also fading. Now, different spaces in a building are designed to match the type of activity that we want to perform. In other words: activity-based workspaces. Research by “Leesman” shows that activity-based working has a positive effect on collaboration and productivity. This blog will explore considerations required to choose the right activity-based workspaces for your office.

Deal with company travel bans and travel restrictions, meet with your colleagues wherever you are. A smarter office incorporating video meeting solutions at work and at home can enable you to keep your operations running in challenging times.

The way in which we work today, is a lot more dynamic than before. Nowadays we go to the office to meet colleagues, to work together or because we need access to technology that is more advanced than our laptop or mobile phone. Office spaces are adapted to this and are much better attuned to the activities that we want to carry out, which are what we call activity-based workspaces.

Having a laptop, mobile phone and access to the internet is often enough for most knowledge workers to be able to do their work when and where they want and to be able to contact their colleagues via the telephone, a video call or by collaboration using platforms such as Microsoft Teams. Technological progress makes this possible and easier, but labor market trends certainly affect how fast this progress occurs. Therefore, we will cover three significant ones in this blog.

You may have read our blog common problems with meeting room technology, where we identified that almost 9 in 10 people surveyed experienced technology-related stress about meetings. In the blog we further investigated how these common meeting room technology problems impacts the business user.

The importance of collaboration in the work environment has never been so vital, yet creating effective collaboration can be challenging for all types of organisations. When people work together problems are solved faster, solutions are generated, and a culture of teamwork is created - but how do you create that culture?

Sure and steady wins the race, and that’s exactly how Barco’s unique meeting room product, ClickShare, has grown in popularity to position itself as a solution to solve everyday meeting room technology problems in enterprises across the globe.

For the optimal meeting room experience, it is wise to think in a holistic way and to choose good and stable solutions that will ensure that your investment is paid back over time. One of these solutions should be hidden, but not forgotten!

Meeting room technology is intended to enhance and simplify office meetings, but frequently causes the opposite effect for business users and can impact the overall quality of meetings.