Let’s face it – the pandemic dramatically changed how and where people work. With remote and hybrid models here to stay, employees are seeking more flexibility in when, where, and how they work.
According to a recent article by Gartner, organizations that embrace radical flexibility – giving employees autonomy over not just location and hours, but also team interactions and workload – see gains in employee engagement, productivity, and retention.
However, flexibility requires thoughtfulness to maintain collaboration and alignment – which is where visual collaboration platforms like ThinkHub become incredibly valuable. With real-time content sharing, total interoperability, and ability to support both in-office and remote users, ThinkHub provides organizations and their employees flexibility while keeping teams connected.
Key Benefits of Workplace Flexibility
Maintaining Collaboration in Flexible Work Settings
While flexibility has advantages, it can also pose collaboration challenges. With distributed teams and varied schedules, maintaining alignment takes intention.
This is where ThinkHub's ability to bridge the gap between the in-room and remote experience becomes a key solution, keeping teams in sync with features such as:
According to a recent article by Gartner, organizations that embrace radical flexibility – giving employees autonomy over not just location and hours, but also team interactions and workload – see gains in employee engagement, productivity, and retention.
However, flexibility requires thoughtfulness to maintain collaboration and alignment – which is where visual collaboration platforms like ThinkHub become incredibly valuable. With real-time content sharing, total interoperability, and ability to support both in-office and remote users, ThinkHub provides organizations and their employees flexibility while keeping teams connected.
Key Benefits of Workplace Flexibility
- Employee autonomy – Giving employees control over where, when, and how they work makes them feel valued and invested in the organization. Employees with autonomy are more engaged.
- Increased productivity – Organizations that offer radical flexibility see 40% more high performers. Flexibility reduces burnout risk and boosts motivation.
- Broader talent pools – Flexible conditions allow tapping into wider talent pools, as location is not an obstacle. This diversity fuels innovation.
- Better work-life balance – Employees can more easily manage commitments outside work, reducing stress and burnout. This improves wellbeing.
Maintaining Collaboration in Flexible Work Settings
While flexibility has advantages, it can also pose collaboration challenges. With distributed teams and varied schedules, maintaining alignment takes intention.
This is where ThinkHub's ability to bridge the gap between the in-room and remote experience becomes a key solution, keeping teams in sync with features such as:
- Robust Content Sharing – Share unlimited images, multi-page PDFs, web-based apps like YouTube, and more to visualize content and annotate together in real-time.
- Interactive Canvases – Invite hybrid collaborators to share content on vast, digital Canvases that support synchronous and asynchronous collaboration – plus they can be saved and resumed at any time.
- Remote + Hybrid Collaboration – Teams can access the shared interactive Canvas to visualize and collaborate from ThinkHub Room in-office or from the T1V app with their individual, at-home devices
- Total Interoperability – Connect with the software tools and platforms you already use, including Google Workspace, O365, JIRA, Zoom, MS Teams, Webex and more…
As hybrid work models continue to grow in popularity, organizations need to think flexibly themselves. Providing employees autonomy over how they work, while equipping them for successful virtual collaboration, will attract top talent and enable innovative thinking.
Book a demo today to learn more about how ThinkHub can support your hybrid teams.