Would you be surprised to find out that a Global Workplace Analytics study found that a typical employer can save an average of $11k a year per half-time remote worker? This is partially due to an obvious reduction in real estate costs, but more importantly, it’s also explained by a significant boost in productivity and employee retention.
It’s clear: effective hybrid collaboration is essential for business success. As employees shift between remote and in-office work, your team may be rethinking its tools, strategies, and overall approach to meeting everyone’s changing needs. So how do you find the right combination of collaboration tools, deployment strategies, and technology partners to drive collaboration, innovation, and agility?
As your Technology Ally, we consider it our job to help you dream, design, and deliver your perfect suite of hybrid collaboration tools and processes. That’s why we partner with leading technology providers like Logitech to ensure our clients have access to best-in-class solutions that are tailored to the modern workplace and their specific needs.
So, as you start planning your 2025 collaboration benchmarks and priorities, here are three ways you can foster innovation and improve hybrid collaboration for everyone in your organization:
1. Focus on Your End-User’s Experience
All collaborative workspaces and processes need human adoption to thrive, so focusing on your end-user's experience is key. A productive hybrid environment considers the unique needs and use cases for each employee, allowing you to predict potential drop-off points and ease the buy-in process to get the most out of your financial and operational investment. So ask yourself: how will people want to use this?
Compugen’s approach—we call it, Dream, Design, Deliver—ensures that solutions are developed with that question in mind by beginning with a detailed imagining of your ideal – or Dream – user experience. Logitech adopts a similar process, opting for, what they call, an “intentionally simple, yet incredibly powerful” ethos that leads to high-quality, user-friendly office tools and innovative new videoconferencing features people truly want to use.
2. Favour Modular Solutions
Hybrid collaboration, by design, requires flexibility and scalability. Modular solutions that play well with others allow organizations to test, adapt, and scale their technology setups quickly as needs change – while also allowing end-users to customize their experience. This modularity empowers teams to set up their workspaces in ways that suit them best, enhancing overall productivity, providing consistency, and enabling smoother collaboration.
Logitech, for example, builds and sells a catalogue of office tools including mice, keyboards, webcams, and headsets that range from Good, to Better, to Best – letting you decide when the basics will do, or when it’s time to level up. We take a similar approach; offering complementary services that range from punctual purchasing to full-service IT strategy, deployment, and ongoing maintenance services. By combining reliability with flexibility, you’re well on your way to incrementally finding and building your perfect mix of hybrid collaboration tools and processes.
3. Get Expert Support
As the capacity and sophistication of our everyday hybrid tools continue to grow and evolve, a lot can be said for reducing your organization’s daily management workload with on-call support and expertise. Beyond ensuring minimal downtime and disruptions to productivity, support services free your best minds to focus on your innovation strategy. With 24/7 packages like Logitech’s Select Services, you can also rest assured that your teams are getting support and working smoothly no matter where they are in the world, with direct access to Tier II assistance within one hour across the globe. Compugen’s fully managed service desk is also open 24/7, ready to connect clients to the right expertise at the right time. As your teams and needs evolve and grow, the peace of mind of knowing things are running smoothly at all times become truly invaluable.
No matter what combination of tools, strategies, and partners you choose to bolster hybrid collaboration and innovation, keep in mind that you’ll always need to create new opportunities to test and pilot functionalities as they emerge – so creating a culture of curiosity and experimentation is key.
By working together, Compugen + Logitech bring you modern work solutions and business-grade tools that foster productive, organic collaboration. Looking for more information about how we can help you optimize performance, reduce daily management, and get the most out of your IT investments? Let’s start a conversation.
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