Supporting WFH and the Return to the Office

Oscar Lin, Head of Monitor Business Unit at ViewSonic and Monica Sun, Director of the Presentation Group. also at ViewSonic, explain how ViewSonic has supported its customers through the phases of the pandemic.

Even though collaborative technology has been around for over 20 years, it hasn’t been needed in the same way since COVID hit. Remote working certainly was not the norm pre-2020 meaning most people collaborated together in a conference room talking face-to-face.

The workspace has fundamentally changed, demanding an evolution of office-remote collaboration solutions. Work from home/anywhere has become normal but people now often struggle with workspace setup difficulties and even experience physical discomfort.

ViewSonic views hybrid working models and hybrid collaboration as becoming a common workplace practice over the world, so we need to adapt to a variety of software and digital platforms in a way that’s simple, intuitive, and doesn’t leave remote workers at a disadvantage.

The next generation of innovations in workplace collaboration should include the ability for workers to easily harness the power of advanced video conferencing platforms, with various sharing tools, and allow them to use a personal device to seamlessly work from anywhere.

To enhance collaboration in classrooms and meetings, ViewSonic’s ViewBoard and myViewBoard come with interactive, touch screen, real-time whiteboarding functions that provide more ways to take notes or minutes in online meetings and instantly share them. Instead of people just having video calls, hybrid remote meetings are getting closer to in-person ones in terms of productivity.

For enterprises, the ViewBoard 70 series is ViewSonic’s line of collaboration solutions, which are specially designed to provide enterprises with easy-to-use, next-generation conferencing capabilities. It comes with an ideal USB-C one-cable solution, offering a superior touch and writing experience, delivering high-quality video for conferencing, and is Microsoft Azure IoT-certified to make workspaces smarter. Allowing for advanced collaboration, and better work efficiency and productivity.

For education, the ViewBoard 52 series is equipped with advanced audio capabilities and a user-centric design in mind. Users can easily connect their BYOD devices intuitively with its front-facing USB-C ports. It works in tandem with our myViewBoard visual learning platform to create more engaging learning and meeting spaces. Teachers can also access frequently used features within a control area, eliminating the need to move back and forth within the UI and instead focus on their material.

ViewSonic’s 24” VG2440V and 27” VG2740V webcam monitors deliver superb video conferencing, high-quality live streaming capability, and crisp audio through a built-in speaker and microphone. With the monitor’s vertical angle adjustment and complete ergonomic flexibility, users can seamlessly tilt, pivot, swivel, and adjust the monitor’s height, which enables users to interact with others online at the desired angle.

In the past, collaborative peripherals and accessories all had to be purchased separately, choosing the right solutions can help to increase each employee’s productivity and efficiency which benefits the enterprises too, how to maximize the value of the total cost is key.

For instance, efficient video conferencing tools are a requirement to engage as a team from anywhere in the world. In the meantime, poor ergonomics can also disrupt your work-from-home experience.

ViewSonic’s 24” VG2440V and 27” VG2740V Full HD monitors both feature a built-in webcam. Superb video conferencing, high-quality live streaming capability, and crisp audio through a built-in speaker and microphone.

The concept of workers only working at the office has fundamentally changed all over the world, hybrid workflows may replace, or compliment, the traditional office after the pandemic, though there are differences in countries and industries. Still, attitudes in the business world have changed enough to support the widespread adoption of collaborative technology for a workplace that is increasingly hybrid.

To meet the discerning needs of second screens and the trend of remote and hybrid working models, ViewSonic actively expanded its product lines to provide high quality and comprehensive work-from- anywhere solutions. Users can now optimize their workflow through our diverse portfolio of related products that boost work efficiency and flexibility.

ViewSonic provides various innovative visual solutions based on different needs, we suggest incorporating into displays the below necessary functions, to design an efficient and flexible hybrid workflow for multitasking workers whether in the office or remote:

Different workers bring different perspectives to the workplace, whether physical or virtual. Younger workers may be more technologically perspective, but older workers bring experience and perspective that needs to be valued as well. Work cannot be just about willingness to use tech tools to get work done. Companies need to make sure that tools and structures are available that are easy to use and provide the training to get the most out of them.

Companies are testing tools and then deploying those tools with training, not just how to use the tools but when and with what purpose. These internal services are billed as change management or adoption services to strongly signal that it is not business as usual and that the entire organization is on a journey.

Yes, pandemic practices will be retained. WFH proved that work can be done in places other than the traditional office. Workers will either find this at their current employer or they will change employers to find the environment that is responsive to their needs and desires as well.

A couple of factors made the adoption of collaborative technologies work during the pandemic. The technologies had advanced to the stage where they were “good enough” or better. Everybody had good connectivity in their homes for their own personal use. Everybody went home to work with the perspective that they had to make remote work. All of the ingredients (tools, infrastructure and attitudes) lined up to make collaborative technologies work.

In the past, collaborative peripherals and accessories all had to be purchased separately, choosing the right solutions can help to increase each employee’s productivity and efficiency which benefits the enterprises too, how to maximize the value of the total cost is key.