From VoIP to Unified Communications and WebRTC
Among office workers, there’s a complaint so common that it borders on cliche:
“This meeting should have been an email.”
For all the different contexts it’s used in, what always drives this message is frustration over time management. It represents employees wanting to just do their job, not get pulled from their desks to hear information that could be given in a more streamlined way.
Amid all the massive growth that UCC is undergoing overall, one particularly explosive area is videoconferencing.
As anyone who’s been paying attention to changes in smart working can tell you, video seems poised to dominate the UCC market. Statistics back up that inference, too: according to Gartner, in-person meetings are set to drop to just 25% of all meetings in favor of virtual platforms. Continue reading “Outlining Effective Videoconferencing Design”
As said in a previous post, one unfortunate fact about working from home is that we all have to deal with distractions.
In that post, we discussed some ways of thinking that can keep you on track — but, for some, those tips might be too abstract. Plenty of us need something a little more concrete to block out the allure of our phone or unproductive websites.
But don’t fret if that’s the case for you. To get more direct about blocking distractions, we recommend using the following six tools, add-ons and apps. (Better yet, each one is totally free!) Continue reading “Concrete Ways to Manage Distractions”
As countless people began working from home for the first time in their lives, time and again I’ve heard them express one especially common worry:
“How can I get any work done when I have so many distractions?”
The fact is, there’s no way to just poof away every distraction available. So to keep disruptions at bay, you need to start with how you approach them and the idea of work itself — in other words, the solution is to reassess how you think about productivity and where it can occur.
Read on to learn five points to consider if you’re worried distractions are keeping you from being the best smart home worker you can be.
The explanation for Zoom’s popularity is most likely that it does what it says on the label: it provides a fast, approachable means of connecting people over video (albeit without providing the degree of end-to-end encryption it promises).
In a perfect world, this would be all an end-user needs out of a web conferencing app. But the problem is, we’re living in a world full of security and privacy threats. Continue reading “Wildix vs. Zoom: A Security Showdown”