{"id":7877,"date":"2023-07-31T11:05:03","date_gmt":"2023-07-31T11:05:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.version1.com\/en-us\/?p=7877"},"modified":"2023-07-31T11:05:03","modified_gmt":"2023-07-31T11:05:03","slug":"virtual-collaboration-benefits-and-challenges-for-your-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.version1.com\/en-us\/virtual-collaboration-benefits-and-challenges-for-your-business\/","title":{"rendered":"Virtual Collaboration – Benefits and Challenges for your Business"},"content":{"rendered":"

Over the last few years, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic, remote and hybrid digital collaboration has become the norm. Although millions of workers are living with the challenges of virtual work, this level of online collaboration can be considered less valuable than in-person interaction. Appropriate and considered use of modern workplace technology in this context supplies a unique opportunity to not only alleviate these problems but make can give advantages to virtual teams by supplying innovative solutions for collaboration.<\/p>\n

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The Radical Impact of the Pandemic<\/strong><\/p>\n

At the start of the pandemic, few organisations were fully prepared to work remotely. According to research, most organisations found their underlying technology and remote access infrastructure provision did not meet their business needs. Based on these constraints and wider cultural factors, only 17% of organizations were fully ready for remote work. Despite this, overnight, companies had to deploy an infrastructure that would support integrated, productivity-focused collaboration among their dispersed workforces and enable them to keep them connected to partners, suppliers, customers, and other members of their wider business ecosystem.<\/p>\n

Virtual collaboration and engagement platforms such as Zoom, Google Chat, Microsoft Teams, and Slack became instrumental in meeting this challenge and helping organisations bring virtual collaboration capabilities to a level comparable to in-person collaboration.<\/p>\n

Organisationally and technologically, this was no easy feat for stakeholders and users to deliver varying levels of corporate infrastructure, including compute capability, mobility, and connectivity. Users needed a seamless, similar, and secure experience across geographies and devices, but this was not universally delivered at an organisational level.<\/p>\n

Organisations also needed to be in tune with how their employees made use of and used these platforms as patterns changed and challenges to the status quo appeared quickly. From the early stage of enforced wide-scale adoption and the ongoing predominant use of video conferencing; users quickly realised if they were going to be more permanently based remotely, they would need features such as meeting transcription and virtual whiteboards for better collaboration.<\/p>\n

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Benefits of Virtual Collaboration<\/strong><\/p>\n

Virtual collaboration solutions have become the new primary UI (User Interface) for employee engagement.<\/p>\n

According to Metrigy’s Workplace Collaboration: 2021-22<\/a>\u00a0research study of more than 475 global organisations, 68% of companies had adopted team collaboration solutions by the end of 2021.<\/p>\n

Metrigy’s research showed that deploying team collaboration apps supplies demonstrable business benefits, including the following:<\/p>\n