MEETINGS & CONFERENCE FACILITIES
ENSURING MEETING EQUITY
Mark Goldsworthy, Operations Director at Eco UK Group, discusses the changing requirements brought on by home working and the most important things to consider for effective HVAC installations.
For many facility managers, the challenge of coping with the hybrid workforce is very real. Facilities are now split across locations more than ever before; with some people working from home and others at the office, leadership teams and FMs are navigating new territory when it comes to creating a positive, productive work environment and sense of belonging for employees. Part of this means prioritising meeting equity and inclusion - and today’s technology solutions have a role in helping organisations meet this need.
The sheer proliferation of different solutions, platforms, abilities, and business needs has left many businesses at a loss to specify the most appropriate solution to manage the home/work hybrid model. However, the good news is that creating business solutions that are adaptable, designed to enhance collaboration and deliver business benefits is certainly possible, as long as several trends and overarching themes are considered to best suit the new workplace needs.
Meeting equity Wherever they are based, employees should benefit from the same meeting equity and interactive UC tools can deliver this by bringing remote works, colleagues
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and team members into the same room, with the same functionalities, regardless of location. For example, employees should be able to walk into any workspace, regardless of location, and get to work collaborating with fellow team members without a lot of setup time.
Features like the ability to show cloud-based real-time annotations in a meeting with (and from) everyone on a call, and then saving and sending the meeting’s ideas and edits, make it easy to connect in-person teams with those working from home. It also fosters a sense of connectivity by eliminating siloed conversations and meetings that are happening in-person and opening the possibilities of how teams must work today.
In the last year, workplace software and platforms such as Microsoft Teams, Zoom, Slack, and Google Meet have all faced a boom in adoption. Ensuring compatibility and compliance with all of the tools that their teams are using is essential for business leaders to keep both productivity and employee satisfaction high.
Meeting common challenges Some of the common challenges with rolling these changes out include; an assurance that the installed
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