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In order to make a productive and effective contribution to business objectives, good cooperation between colleagues, peers and customers is essential. Supported by trends such as: development in the labor market, technological progress and the fact that many organizations are increasingly active on an international stage, makes it so that collaboration is increasingly taking place at a distance. As a result, more and more offices are increasingly being designed for this. Of course, remote collaboration will never match on-site collaboration.

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.

Progressive organizations will continue to improve their office environment, as to remain an attractive employer for both existing and new employees. But, also to be able to work increasingly efficiently and thus be more productive. Good cooperation in this is essential. The spaces in a building are increasingly being adapted to this. And the following technological trends will make a positive contribution to this in the next five years.

Supporting your video conferencing, AV and UC environment alongside every other piece of technology in an organization can be challenging for IT departments. Duncan MacPherson explains how Smart Monitoring can ease the burden.

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!