174 V I EWPO I NT The power of working together There are too many barriers preventing people from returning to the office. For example, there is the current state of gas prices, the commute, the long hours at the office without all the creature comforts employees have become accustomed to, and the fact that they cannot simply open their laptop and join a meeting within seconds like they can from home. Some might say that platforms such as Microsoft Teams have almost made it too easy for most end users to work from home – and if you compare the processes involved in hosting physical and virtual meetings, you can see why. Typically, most corporate meeting rooms have a mixture of screens, lights, audio speakers/ microphones, and cameras, and users need to figure out how to use all these components in order to host a successful meeting without technical interruptions. Meanwhile, all a user needs to do to host or participate in a successful meeting remotely via Microsoft Teams is to open their laptop and click a link. Joining a remote meeting hasn’t always been this painless, but the pandemic has accelerated the evolution of remote working. When the pandemic first started, it was essential to get remote users up and running. Now, we must shift to become more inclusive of a hybrid environment. The path forward is simple; we “We have to make hybrid meetings just as easy as opening your laptop and clicking on a link” Organisations must ensure audiovisual and IT teams collaborate to create better hybrid working experiences if they want to encourage employees to return to the office post-pandemic AARON WE I L E R : AV I XA
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