Our Full Review Of The Google Meet Series One Desk 27
[et_pb_section admin_label=”section”] [et_pb_row admin_label=”row”] [et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text”] Video conferencing has become a main resource in peoples life. With applications such as Google Meet being a integral part of your day. Whether that’s to contact friends, family or to get your work done. But with the sudden popularity and usage of the video-communication platform. Using and integrating Google Meet into your home office, has caused stress for most. Avocor and Google Meet have teamed up to create the perfect all-in-one desktop, that covers all your needs. For not only completing work tasks, but holding video conferencing with Google Meet. With The Desk 27’s simple design, there’s no stress about missing moving files from one computer to another or missing meetings all together because you had no reminder. The Google Meet Series One Desk 27 By Avocor really does hold everything in one device. Its ‘a premium all-in-one touchscreen Google Meet device, desk monitor, laptop docking station, and digital whiteboard’. Covering all your basic needs and wants while in a meeting or just simply working at your desk. Whether that be in the office or at home. In the last couple of years “94% of organisations are now more flexible as to where and when employees work”, Gartner 2021. So with a device like The Desk 27, employers and employees, won’t have to worry about working from home. With all this in mind The Desk 27 sounds like a great desktop to get a hold of, and with the device coming out later this month. Here is our review of The Google Meet Series One Desk 27 By Avocor. Main Features The Desk 27 holds many great features that will grant you a great experience when working when the desktop. From the camera and audio to extra features like voice activation. Avocor has packed The Desk 27 full of important features that everyone wants in a desktop monitor, while adding small extra features that many would not notice or care about. Like mentioned, these extra features may seem a bit pointless. But it shows that Avocor and Google are dedicated to creating a monitor that generally helps you video conference in the easiest way possible. Plus by Avocor partnering with Google Meet, the desktop targets a massive audience of people who use video-communication platform. Tailoring the desktop to include everything you would need to use Google Meet efficiently. The Desk 27 is a simple design with a simple and quick to use display. The design of the Desk 27 fits into Google’s aesthetic but it is also for easier usage. Making it easier for you to walk in and start, or join, a meeting. The home page, as you could call it, is a basic screen of your scheduled meetings, on the right side of the screen. Then a grid on the left hand side where you can join or start a meeting, call a phone, and use the whiteboard. However, The Desk 27 can be suited for about anyone. With any video conferencing platform. From offices, phone booths, small meeting rooms, collaboration rooms, and home offices. Anyone and everyone can enjoy The Desk 27. The Monitor With just one tap you can do basically everything the Desk 27 is designed for. Gone are the days where you have to connect your laptop, find your video conferencing platform, log in and find the correct meeting. With Desk 27, you simply just have to walk in and tap your scheduled meeting. And You’re ready to go. Although, if you use the extra features that Avocor have included, you could walk in and just say “Hey Google start my meeting”. And you’re ready to go even faster. The speaker, soundbar and microphones are all integrated into the display, giving the monitor a clean look. This matches on well to Google’s typical aesthetic, white clean displays with minimal to no buttons. With just a quick glance at this desktop you will already know its Google. Though the monitor holds a clean and simple look, the inside of the device is a bit more complex. With an Intel Core i5 Processor, the device works to handle constant workloads that would normally run down any other type of monitor. Alongside this, the Desk 27 includes an integrated compute system of Google Edge TPU (Tensor Processing Unit), with the latest Google AI. Helping the desktop run in the most reliable way it can. The monitor can also be positioned any way you want. Coming with its own dedicated stand, you can easily set up the monitor. But with the stand being detachable, you can place the display on another stand that suits your desk and liking. This could be a stand that allows you to move the display around. Not only that but the display can be mounted on the wall. This mounting option is great for meeting rooms and small collaboration rooms. As you can set the display on the wall to the perfect height, so you wont have to waste time adjusting the display to get you, and any other colleagues, into frame. But if you’re thinking that it would be easier just to move the display yourself. That’s where the Desk 27’s camera can automatically adjust and move around to get you in the right position. The Display To make not only your video meeting experience better but also your whiteboarding experience better. The monitors display can be tilted, from 0°+5°/-25. This allows you to completely adjust the device to the way it suits you. Making it more personal to and how you like to work. The Desk 27 really is all about fitting in to your environment and what you want. The device can either stay on the stand that arrives with the display or it can be mounted to a wall. So no matter what shape your home office, small meeting room or collaboration room is, this monitor can fit in easily. The display boasts a 178˚ viewing angle, letting everyone view
AV Solutions We Offer
Finding an AV solution for your meeting room, or meeting space, can be difficult. Each environments have different needs and uses for AV. With a wide range of AV available, we offer most AV solutions to any type of environment. Making it easy for you to know what will work in your space, as we will do it for you. But as there is a wide field of AV available, its best to know what type of AV you are looking for and what each piece of equipment offers and what it means. We offer many different types of AV solutions for many different environments. If you’re confused about what type of solution would work for you, then fill out the form with your details, send us a message on LiveChat, call us on (01189) 977 770, or email us at sales@21stcenturyav.com. Digital Signage Digital signage offer multiple benefits to a business. Working technically as an informational board, digital signage can help a business present information in creative ways. Making the information you want to share more interesting and eye catching to your audience. A main benefit of digital signage is that it can be used practically anywhere. No matter what your display is, it can be turned into a digital signage display. Restaurant Meeting rooms Reception areas Social Spaces Public Transport Schools Digital signage can be used anywhere and for any reason, the simple solution lets you turn any display into a digital signage screen. Using digital signage software’s such as BrightSign, SignageLive, and Sedao can help bring your signage to life. With a software like BrightSign, you can create and run your digital signage through one specific place. Why Digital Signage? The reason for a digital signage display is simple, they are a great way to catch anyone’s attention. With a simple installation and signage creation, digital signage displays can easily be put into any space. With anyone being able to create a template and present their restaurant menu, or informational board. They are adaptable to any space. Interactive Displays Working wonders in meeting rooms and educational environments, interactive displays can easily bring collaboration and creativity to any team of people. The brands we offer reflect what we think interactive displays should be, with brands such as; CTouch UX Pro Smart Technologies All of these brands give a collaborative experience to any space. CTouch Interactive Displays let anyone share any type of content from their laptop. UX Pro is great for any size meeting room with multiple screen sizes, also with great sharing capabilities. Smart Technologies is a perfect solution for educational environments, letting teachers use the display for presentations and whiteboarding features. From this you can gather that interactive displays are a no brainer for any type of space. Where Can Interactive Displays Thrive? Interactive displays work great in collaborative spaces. Meeting rooms, classrooms, and training rooms are the best environment for an interactive display. In older, less advanced classrooms projectors were widely used to project lesson content to the students. Although, at the time, this was a solution that worked, wear and tear wold creep in. After a while the projector light would fade and the reason for the projector would become pointless as the content shared became too difficult to read. Then when this happened you would have to replace the old projector, meaning in the end the projector would become way more expensive then originally thought. However with an interactive display, sharing content will never be faded. A CleverTouch, UX Pro, or Smart Technologies interactive display will keep its quality for a longer period of time. Meaning you wont have to worry about replacing any lamps. Steering away from faulty’s, an interactive displays is an all round better experience in an education environment then a projector solution. With an interactive display you wont have to worry about bright projector lights, shadows blocking your content, and fuzzy content from the projector trying to focus. In the long term an interactive screen can be less pricey than a projector, have longer lasting high quality, and it can make your meeting room or classroom more professional and tidy. LED Video Walls Whether you are looking to wow at a event with an outdoor video wall or present useful information to guests in your reception area, video walls can create a powerful large display for any space. Placing a a large video wall in your reception allows customers to see what type of business you are, with you being able to showcase your work and company, giving you a professional and high quality perception of the business. Now, video walls come in different shapes and sizes. Meaning that no matter the size of the area you want your video wall to be in, you might be able to fit a video wall in. The way video walls work is that it is made out of multiple displays. So, it is totally customisable to your space. If you want your video wall to be 3 displays high, then you can do so. The multiple displays are clipped on to the video wall mount, meaning that you can mount as many displays as you want. If you are wanting high quality, long lasting video walls, we recommend; Philips Samsung Nec LG Barco Unisee Absen These video walls all deliver a simple design to give different levels of seamlessness of a video wall. Out of all of these solutions we deliver, Philips and Samsung are most likely the brands you have heard of. Philips If you are looking into Philips video walls, you will get an all in one design that is simple to deploy into any space. With any separations and gaps, the Philips video wall will produce high quality LED imagery with high brightness. Samsung If you are looking for the right video wall to capture the highest quality imagery with outstanding colours. Then Samsung is the right video wall. Suited best for live events as the Samsung
Reconfiguring Your Workspace
Working solely from the office and from the same desk isn’t the only option anymore. Hot desking as introduced to help offices with people working from home and working from a co-working space to bring them back into the office. Safely and without them having to worry. Working from home has become comfortable but with hot desking, it lets companies bring back their employees and sit them at a desk that they want. Leaving their desk option completely up to them. If you are looking to update your office with new meeting spaces and equipment then fill out the form with your details, start a conversation with LiveChat, give us a call on (01189) 977 770, or email us at sales@21stcentury.com. What Type Of Rooms Need To Be Bought In Offices are now not just cubical after cubical or desk after desk all lined up. The way of working has changed and the environment in the offices needs to change with it. Open planned offices with social spaces are a great way to introduce a new layout of working, with social spaces bringing a more comfortable environment to work in. This new type of layout allows people to sit and meet wherever comfortable. Plus using a social space to hold your video conference, the participants via the video conference could feel more relaxed in the meeting as your environment looks welcoming and more comfortable. If social spaces sound great but you still want to have spaces for a more private meeting, then focus rooms are a great addition to any office. Including focus rooms into your office gives people the freedom to take their meeting to a more private area. Perfect if you are having private conversations with somebody in the office or someone external through a video conference. Hot Desking This is the new way of working within the office. With people getting unmotivated and at the same desk everyday, hot desking is a way workers can move around the office and have a change of environment. Hopefully increasing motivation. Plus, it doesn’t just help increase motivation but it can help increase relationships around the office. As people are moving around either daily or weekly. Resulting in new relationships and ideas being made as you are sat next to different people throughout the month. The reason hot desking was introduced to offices though was to help with keeping people distanced around the office. Using devices like GoBright to make sure that workers would book their desk before getting into the office, plus stopping any stealing of desks. Here are a few pros to introducing hot desking into your office; All of these benefits can be added into your office by introducing hot desking. GoBright With the GoBright device you can instantly see what desks are available, in use, almost occupied, and non-bookable. The status devices can sit on top of the desk or the desktop, making it easy for people to see if the desk is free or not. Along with the GoBright devices, people in charge can go into a portal, review timelines, desks that are booked and never occupied, and occupancy reviews. Meaning that even if you, as a manager, are working from home you can still check on how many people are in the office. Making sure that the right desks are being used and that you are getting the most out of introducing GoBright into your office. Using GoBright is easy and efficient. With the device being integrated with Active Directory and Google, people in the office can log into GoBright too book a desk with their Microsoft or Google Account. Then when you use one of those accounts to log in and book your desk, you can use the GoBright app to log in. All you have to do when you get to your desk is scan the NFC sticker with your phone (compatible with IPhone 7 or later). Or you can use the GoBright App to sign into your desk just by scanning the GoBright LED ring. Video Conferencing Solutions Adding some updated video conferencing solutions to your office will massively help you reconfigure. Video conferencing solutions come in all different sizes. So if you are introducing social spaces and huddle rooms to your office, you will be able to find a video conferencing solution for you. This can be a better option for some in terms of reliability, being able to set up your camera and audio the way you want with the devices being separate. Video conferencing solutions will also work best for your huddle rooms, with this type of solution you can pick the right brand, the right video conferencing platform and the right AV devices that will fit your specific type of room. Whether you are picking a video conferencing solution that is tied to Zoom and created by Logitech Or, a video conferencing solution that is made for Teams meetings and created by Poly. With any brand there will be a video conferencing solution for you. Some of the most popular brands are Logitech, Poly, and Yealink. Each brand offering their own type of video conferencing equipment to help reconfigure your meeting space. FAQs Why Should I Consider Reconfiguring Workspace? The main reason to reconfigure your workplace is to entice your workers back into the office. Like we said, having rows and rows of cubicles or desks isn’t the way to bring your employees back. With people getting an insight to how their working life would be if they were to work hybrid in co-working spaces, having to upgrade you office was inevitable. What Do Social Spaces Do? Updating your main office floor may have been inevitable but for a good reason. Adding more of a homely sense to your office lets your employees to feel more comfortable and relaxed. Decreasing stress and increasing motivation as the environment around them is nicer than cubical walls. These social spaces can be any shape and size, being made up
The Ultimate Guide to Workplace Digital Signage (2025)
The Ultimate Guide to Digital Signage for the Modern Workplace Introduction: More Than Just a Screen on the Wall Once upon a time, workplace signage meant laminated posters reminding you to wash your hands or attend the next fire drill. Today, that same real estate on the office wall is powerfully redefined with digital signage. Digital signage isn’t just for advertising anymore—it’s a communication hub. In fact, 72% of companies used digital signage for internal communications in 2023, and 56% of internal communications teams consider it an essential tool. Whether you’re displaying an interactive dashboard in reception or rolling out company news on floor screens, it’s transforming the way teams engage. So, what exactly is digital signage in the workplace? At its core, it’s a dynamic, targeted communication platform. Corporate digital signage delivers real-time content—dashboards, announcements, KPIs, welcome messages—tailored to your people and your brand. Here’s what you’ll get from this guide: You’ll learn how to: Choose the right hardware and software setup Plan content that cuts through the noise Leverage signage as part of your internal communications technology Whether you’re just exploring digital signage for offices or refining your corporate digital signage strategy, this guide gives you the clarity and direction to move forward with confidence. The Benefits of Digital Signage in the Workplace You don’t install digital signage in an office just because it looks good — though it often does. You invest in it because it solves problems. From missed memos to disconnected teams, the right signage setup bridges communication gaps, strengthens culture, and keeps everyone on the same page — literally. Let’s break down what that looks like in practice. Internal Communication: Clear, Consistent, and Instant We’ve all seen it happen — important updates get lost in inboxes, or worse, never read at all. Corporate digital signage changes that by delivering key messages in real time, across your entire workspace. Whether you’re rolling out new policies, celebrating wins, or simply reminding people of upcoming events, digital signage ensures the message lands — without clogging up calendars or email chains. And because content can be scheduled, updated remotely, and tailored by location, teams get relevant info, exactly when and where they need it. Branding and Culture: Put Your Values on Display An office isn’t just a place to work — it’s where your brand comes to life. Digital signage gives you a canvas to express that identity. Imagine screens that showcase your mission, share real customer feedback, highlight team achievements, or play welcome videos for new starters. It’s subtle, but powerful — a constant reinforcement of what your company stands for. In a hybrid or multi-site environment, this becomes even more valuable. Signage brings consistency, connecting teams across different locations with a unified culture. Boosting Productivity: Real-Time Data That Drives Action Dashboards in the sales department. Safety metrics in the warehouse. Project timelines in the dev pod. Digital signage lets you surface live data where it’s most useful, helping teams make faster, more informed decisions. It removes friction — no need to dig through reports or ask for updates. The info is right there on the wall, keeping momentum high and focus sharp. And when people see their progress visualised? It motivates. It drives accountability. It builds a performance-led environment. Enhancing the Visitor Experience: First Impressions Matter Let’s say a potential client walks into your office. The first thing they see? A polished welcome message with their name on it, your logo beside it, and a live feed of your recent work or social impact stats. That’s not just digital signage — that’s an experience. Whether you’re hosting partners, clients, or job candidates, smart use of signage adds a personal, professional touch. It makes your workplace feel modern, organised, and intentional — which speaks volumes before a single word is said. What is Corporate Digital Signage? Corporate digital signage is a communication system that uses screens to display dynamic content throughout a workplace. Think of it as your organisation’s internal broadcast network — one that replaces static posters, endless email threads, and forgotten noticeboards with real-time, visually engaging messaging. Unlike digital signage used in retail or public spaces — where the goal is to attract and convert customers — corporate digital signage is focused on employees, stakeholders, and visitors. It’s less about advertising, and more about alignment. You’re not pushing promotions; you’re streamlining communication, reinforcing culture, and surfacing the information people need to work better. You’ll often find it in lobbies greeting guests with tailored welcome screens, in break rooms sharing company updates or social feeds, and in meeting rooms displaying schedules or video content. On production floors, digital signage helps highlight targets, track performance, or push safety reminders without disrupting workflow. The beauty of it? It’s versatile. Whether you’re managing one site or a dozen, digital signage systems can be centrally controlled and tailored by location, department, or even time of day. In short: corporate digital signage isn’t about selling — it’s about communicating, clearly and consistently, within your organisation. How Digital Signage Transforms the Workplace Let’s be honest — internal communication isn’t always easy. Messages get missed. Alignment gets lost. And before you know it, teams are working in silos. This is where corporate digital signage comes into its own — not as a gimmick, but as a tool that actually changes how people engage at work. Internal Communication: Real-Time Clarity Digital signage replaces scattered updates with clear, visible messaging. Whether you’re announcing policy changes, recognising a team’s milestone, or displaying live KPIs, you’re cutting through the noise. Instead of relying on email opens or Slack threads, the message is unmissable — and that means better-informed teams who move faster and work smarter. It’s especially powerful in large or multi-site organisations where alignment can easily slip. When every office sees the same message at the same time, you’re creating consistency — without adding admin. Branding & Culture: Values You Can See Your values shouldn’t live in a handbook. They should live on your walls.