A virtual "Window to the office"

This is another post where I explore the ideas and benefits around video- and teleconferencing....

We are soon starting a test in our team where we install "a Window to the office". The idea is to have a virtual video room where everybody in the team can connect with almost any device from anywhere and there will be a central computer showing video from the main office room all the time. This could potentially be a huge change on how we look at office work today. Our preliminary tests show that the technology is almost there. It needs some tuning and testing though and probably some components (like the Chrome Beta browsers Webrtc client on tablet) need some iterations to get stable, but we are almost there.

This way we can make the teamwork in geographically split teams much better. Why one should do that? Here are the benefits that an employer could get from such an arrangement:

1. You no longer need to hire only from the same city your office is in.
2. Companies who provide immaterial services (software development, designers, project management, even musicians and architects) can work (much more effectively) for customers that are not in their city. This means that you have a small task of getting your customers also to use the project teams videoroom, but that is doable.
3. You can put an end to the endless moving of people from one office space to another. Moving seems to be a constant in many companies because people change their roles, the organisation structure changes, projects change etc. By substituting real presence with video presence everyone can just leave one set of virtual video rooms and join others. As a major benefit compared to physical office can specialists suddenly be present in many teams, sometimes even at the same time!
4. Last but not least - you can cut the time people spend on travelling between offices and meeting rooms.

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  1. Please share your experiences during your tests. Cheers.

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  3. The concept of virtual office provides a great start-up to the business professionals. Having a virtual office like, YES Workspaces not only helps to save the money on office expenses, but also helps to save the time on commuting in any office every day.

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