Most meeting spaces were designed when nearly all employees were required to be in the office five days per week. However, over the year’s we have experienced a sharp rise in flexible working environments. Long gone are the days of individual cubicle life, as we are no longer confined to a single workstation located in a permanent environment.
Today’s new world of hybrid working means that we can work from anywhere! Whether it’s at a company’s headquarters, at home, a coffee shop, or on the road, collaboration and communication between people is vital to enable them to make the best decisions. For many, however, this new working reality is not fully supported, as offices designed pre-pandemic were not designed to accommodate both in-person and remote meeting participants.
A lack of ability to see or hear the person on the other end of your call can be detrimental to meeting efficiency. The ability to take ideas to the next level and move the organization forward depends on effective and efficient communication.
As employees and managers demand more flexible work modules and schedules, the workspace of the future will need to have the tools and technologies to make virtual meetings easier and more inclusive, and AV integrators need to consider the room’s architecture, acoustics, and flexibility to find an intelligible audio and clear video solution.
Audio communication is a critical factor to employee collaboration either working or not working. Considering the work paradigm shift of the past three years, the workplace has not kept pace.
