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These days it is well known that videoconferencing offers major benefits to organisations and their employees: the commute is reduced and the productivity is increased. However, to be able to profit from these benefits, you need to use the right video solutions. After all, not all tools have the same possibilities. Successful usage depends on different factors.

Modern technologies are changing the way we interact, communicate and collaborate these days. It is no longer a problem for employees to work at different locations. Different locations and workspaces can result in higher productivity, lower expenses and quicker decisions. 

Video call or conferece call plays an important role in this New Way of Working.

More and more companies are using videoconferencing. Visual communications bring people closer and allow them to communicate more specifically and effectively. Companies are experiencing a clear increase of corporate productivity through the use of videoconferencing. This has been demonstrated by a research by Polycom in collaboration with Wainhouse Research, which has been hold amongst approximately five thousand business end users of video services all over the world.

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Collaboration is increasingly becoming recognized as a critical investment for organizations looking for new sources of productivity and innovation. Cost cutting and efficiency measures can achieve only so much; the next breakthrough levels of business performance will come from the ability to tap into the collective knowledge and creativity of your workforce.

Those who work partly at home, work most...

It is not just work that is being done at the office. Research, carried out by OfficeTime.net, shows that employees spend between one to two hours every day on activities that are not related to their work. Private communications and social media prove to be great distractions, following various studies.

Camera, microphone, monitor, speaker and codec. These are the five essential components that constitute a video collaboration solution. The camera and microphone capture the image and sound at one location. The codec converts the video and audio into a digital signal and compresses it before sending it out over the network. At the other end, the codec decompresses the signal and feeds the picture to a monitor and the sound to a loudspeaker.

The New Way of Working (NWW) was a hot topic in 2012 and it certainly remains this year. It is difficult to provide an absolute definition for this concept. Experts in the field describe NWW using different core words. You might consider the following: flexible work, location- and time independent work, generation Y, congestion-free, work-life balance, corporate social responsibility, sustainability, efficient work, etc.

Do you recognize this feeling? Meeting over here, meeting over there and your other work needs to be finished as well the same day. Besides, if you have to travel several miles before reaching your meeting location, your working day is already over.

Working in isolation is a non-existent in all organizations today, whether you are in a large or small enterprise. Managing and connecting with people inside and outside of your business is as vital today as it has been since humankind came into existence. Without collaboration and cooperation, your business would not survive.

In 2013, Unified Collaboration is trending. The new ways of working are constantly asking for the integration of different communication technologies in order to collaborate even better. An important factor in this is the technical equipment of flexible work stations: employees should be able to work from any location. Since BYOD is nowadays the rule rather than the exception, mobile devices should be equipped for location-independent communications.