Build a successful hybrid workplace with the right technology
Build a successful hybrid workplace with the right technology
Balancing a workforce in which employees are working remotely full-time, returning to the office indefinitely, or experiencing a blend of the two can be challenging for companies to navigate. A hybrid workplace environment should consider the following four elements:
Imagine meetings where everyone has a front-row seat
Working in a hybrid model, employees won’t be able to depend on seeing each other face to face five days a week. Maintaining connections and sharing information with frontline staff in the field or with customers who depend on face-to-face interactions is a gap that can be hard to bridge. It’s essential for leaders to reimagine how online meetings are conducted.
As they have for the past year, employees in hybrid work environments will continue to depend on their devices in some measure to help them connect with colleagues and customers. The right hardware and software can reduce meeting fatigue, increase engagement in virtual calls, and create an environment in which everyone feels like they have a seat at the table.
Collaborate in the cloud
A lack of efficient and seamless collaboration in a hybrid work environment means productivity suffers. Technology can enable hybrid teams to collaborate more efficiently, whether the objective is to simply throw ideas around or to meet a tight deadline.
Modern devices like Surface have functional, flexible collaboration tools built in, which work seamlessly with critical business apps, so that employees can work together from anywhere. Remote and in-office colleagues working with Microsoft 365 apps can live-edit presentations together in a virtual meeting and co-author reports, documents, and spreadsheets.1
Performance for everyone, wherever they work
The computers that employees depend on must enable them to get their essential tasks done anywhere.
Some employees can never picture themselves without their beloved clamshell laptop, which they can find in the Surface Laptop family. Other employees prefer a 2-in-1 digital inking experience, whether they collect signatures, prefer to ink their feedback in shared files, or sketch in 3D apps. Surface Pro, Surface Go, Surface Pro X, and Surface Book are versatile devices that can be used as laptops or tablets. Whatever the role requires, there’s a device that’s the right fit.
With employees working from any number of locations in a hybrid environment, IT teams need to be able to manage devices remotely and secure company data.
Surface helps drive a highly orchestrated, centrally managed, zero-trust security solution to protect employees, apps, and data from the latest cyberthreats. Engineered to integrate with Windows 10, Microsoft software, and Microsoft cloud security provisions, Surface devices can be managed through the cloud down to the firmware level with just a few clicks.
A hybrid workplace is an investment. Businesses that choose Microsoft Surface and Microsoft 365 see a real return on investment (ROI):1
1Forrester. “Maximizing Your ROI From Microsoft 365 Enterprise With Microsoft Surface.” Commissioned by Microsoft. July 2020. https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/ surface-it-pro-blog/maximizing-your-roi-from-microsoft-365-enterprise-with-microsoft/ba-p/1740437.