The scramble for the return to work is real.
Whether you’re team in-office, or team remote - a compromise is evident: that hybrid work life.
While some organizations are urging bodies back to their seats at headquarters, others are empowering team members with the agency to make their own schedules based on tasks and hybrid team workflows.
The biggest challenge? How to make sure you and your team are not left out if you’re not working from the office. Enter: remote-equal work.
What is the best way to create a remote-equal environment so that everyone is included and productive for better team efficiency? To design meetings for remote-equal participation.
Outfit all employees with hybrid visual collaboration tools - both in-office and at home. This is where the standard Zoom video conferencing capabilities end and visual collaboration actually takes over.
The most versatile solutions are those that combine hardware and software for in-room meeting participants - like touch displays, cameras and speakers so video conferencing participants can be seen and heard as if they were sitting next to coworkers around a conference table.
When visual collaboration software is available on that in-office hardware, employees working from anywhere can also participate. By simply joining a meeting hosted by visual collaboration software on their laptops, tablets, and smartphones, remote employees have the ability to equally speak up, submit ideas, and brainstorm with everyone in real-time.
Whereas video conferencing solutions allow for simple screen sharing, visual collaboration software supports fully interactive virtual whiteboarding and provides a platform for all different types of content to be shared and collaborated on in the same place.
Not only does everyone have access - by avoiding confusion and communication snafus, it streamlines workflows and improves collaboration and connection for all.
Need a technology solution for hybrid teams? Download the T1V eBook - Remote-Equal Collaboration: How to Support Hybrid Employees in the Return to Work to explore how T1V can help.