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
Different AV Environments We Cover
AV is a staple in our world. Wherever you go there will be some type of AV, whether that’s screens for digital signage in train stations, video walls for live events, or audio systems for museums. AV can be used in many different environments that many don’t realise. Audio visual equipment is mostly known for being used in meeting rooms. With companies using different types of AV solutions for their video conferencing and presentations. However, AV isn’t just limited to use in offices. Audio visual equipment can be used in practically any space. From corporate use to, entertainment, education, public sectors, to places of worship, we install AV. From these environments, many different solutions for AV can occur. Meaning that AV can come in all different shapes and sizes, a task that our team can handle. No matter your environment, we will find the right solution. Complete this form, jump on our LiveChat, give us a call (01189) 977 770 or email us at sales@21stcenturyav.com. Corporate AV in corporate environments is a no brainer, with video conferencing being the main way we hold meetings its important you get the right AV solution that works for you. But AV doesn’t just have to be confined to your small, medium, or large meeting rooms in a corporate environment. Reception areas, social areas, breakout rooms, and focus rooms are places in which AV is needed and where it can thrive. There are many advantages to corporate environments having AV, including; Better video conferencing experience Easier for content sharing (images, PowerPoints, videos) Better for larger meetings with more people People can work remotely and still join a meeting Can get answers and decisions made faster In Meeting Rooms AV solutions in any type of meeting room is a must. From meeting room displays to microphones everything is covered when installing the right AV solution for your meeting room. Kitting out your meeting room doesn’t just have to be a display that sits above your meeting table. A meeting room is more than that. And for a meeting to run at a high standard, a lot more is needed. There are a lot of aspects to a high quality meeting space, that many don’t see. Or think about. A display situated above your meeting room table is fine, but making the effort to install a high quality camera, microphone, and speaker to your meeting room can make a whole difference to how you hold your meeting. This could be in the form of a video bar and a separate microphone on the table, or fully separate devices the run together to present your meeting. Either way, a full AV solution is needed if a better meeting room experience is what you are after. Focus Room No matter the size of your room, there will be AV solutions that will fit into your space. With the new way of working, smaller, focus type spaces are now common in many offices. Letting those who are hybrid working the option to come back into the office if they need a professional AV set up for a meeting. This type of room is definitely one of the easier rooms to find a solution for. As its acting, technically, as a shareable office desk, a high powered webcam, soundbar, and meeting display will best fit into this space. This small solution will cover everything you need in this focus space with image, audio, and easy set up. Its simple for this room to act as a carousel, after one person is finished its quick and easy for another to walk in and power up their meeting. Social Spaces Alongside focus rooms, social spaces are a new way for workers to sit as a team and feel comfortable. This opened planned space can obviously show some difficulties when trying to hold a video conference. With this type of space most likely in a large open room with not so many dividers, being able to talk business with someone via a Zoom call can be found difficult. Luckily with clever technology, AV has come leap and bounds with letting you speak freely without getting interrupted. Audio bars, microphones, and video conferencing displays have set features to only focus on your voice. Meaning that meeting rooms can be any shape and size. So using a social space in the office is actually made usable, with your video conference participants will only be able to see and hear you. So whether you have a large social space or a small corner in the main office, there will be an AV product that can suit your space and social space needs. Education AV in education can be a massive benefit to more inclusive and interactive lessons. With a pretty simple set up, projectors and interactive displays are the best solution for this type of environment. Either solution will cover the whole room with ease. Plus with in house teaching, classrooms will never really have to worry about video conferencing. However with the way things have become, video conferencing is now a common factor to think about when finding the right AV solution for a classroom. Here are some pros to including AV in an educational environment; Including interactive screen can lead to a more inclusive and collaborative session Simple for trainers to share training content Easy for students to share their work Can still teach students working from home With the chance that some students are still learning from home, the solution will have to include a camera good enough to capture the teacher and the lesson material. But it doesn’t just stop there. In house learning leads to great collaboration between classmates and trying to get that collaboration through a grid on your laptop can prove difficult. Training Centres As another form of education, training centres rely on a good AV solution to hold their lessons. The solution has to be good enough for teachers to put out their material in their lessons
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