Voice

Once upon a time, office workers walked around with cricks in their necks from cradling phone handsets between their heads and shoulders. Fortunately, phone technology has advanced since then.

From a global pandemic to inflation-hitting highs that have been unseen since the 1970s, small business owners know all too well the importance of preparedness to handle business disruption. Not to mention, customer expectations have reached an all-time high, and delivering an optimal customer experience has become more critical than ever before. On the flip side, employee needs have also changed, with many desiring more flexible and fulfilling work options.

Metrigy’s Workplace Collaboration: 2023-24 global study of 440 organizations find substantial deployment of on-premises and hosted unified communications platforms within financial services and healthcare industry participants. Nearly a third (32.3%) of financial services firms are deployed on-premises compared to 37.5% of healthcare organizations. An additional 22.6% of financial services firms use single-tenant private hosted cloud solutions, as do 12.5% in the healthcare vertical.

The COVID-19 pandemic caused us all to become more aware of cleanliness, hygiene, and what we're touching.

The 2023 edition of Enterprise Connect, held in Orlando, FL, brought together even more partners and customers than last year’s successful event. While the agenda included the expected vendor, consultant, and analyst presentations, it also included such activities as morning yoga and running, a booth crawl, and opportunities for attendees to connect during coffee breaks and other activities.

Monsoons, volcanoes, wildfires, droughts, hurricanes, and typhoons. Natural disasters have been occurring with more severity and frequency than ever. In 2022, extreme weather events broke records worldwide and are on a dangerous upward trend.

In our current workforce remote workers and virtual events/meetings are on the rise.

One of the most startling statistics to emerge from the COVID-19 pandemic had nothing to do with communicable illnesses but rather with communications between businesses. In 2020, from March to June, Microsoft Teams use grew by 894%. That’s more than Zoom, in case you were wondering. And, between 2021 and 2022, the number of Teams users rose from 145 million to 270 million. Microsoft Teams has become the de facto communications platform for over one million organizations in just a few years.

Organizations are facing a new era that is both exciting and daunting. As many employees have returned to the office in some capacity, some want to keep working remotely.

Let’s face it, the days of running a business with outdated communication tools are over.