According to recent ClickShare research, 55% of employees worldwide are in a hybrid working pattern, switching days of work at home with days in the office. While we all see the value of remote working, building and maintaining a fruitful connection between in-office and remote workers is undoubtedly difficult. During hybrid and remote work, people often feel excluded from major workplace conversations.
Today our meetings are significantly different than they were a few years ago. With hybrid meeting becoming the standard, the biggest challenge revolves around ensuring that everyone is equally seen and heard. 70% of any communication is linked to body language and facial expressions and these non-verbal cues are especially difficult to capture in hybrid meetings. And this is why 60% of the employees, on a global scale, believe that hybrid meetings are less effective.
Since 2019, Barco has measured how people perceive the quality of meetings, with the Meeting Barometer. In 2019 the score was +63. During the pandemic, it dropped to -38, slightly picking up to -32 in the latest edition.
As is clearly visible, the overall sentiment remains negative, with 60% of the employee base experiencing technical challenges while joining hybrid meetings. Challenges range from the audio not functioning properly to difficulties in sharing content and booking a room. Many a times, people in the meeting are unsure of which cable to use, and figuring out different setups when moving between different rooms becomes a struggle. There are just too many cables, too many control panels, and too many sub-par user experiences in hybrid meeting rooms.
In this evolving scenario, if the hybrid workplace is to be successful, we clearly require technology capable of facilitating better and smarter collaboration. It is imperative to access technology that helps us work the way we want and use the devices and conferencing platforms that we are comfortable with. In short, what hybrid meeting rooms require today is technology that focuses on absolute meeting equity.
The ClickShare Conference experience
ClickShare works as a central hub in the meeting room: it connects all the meeting room peripherals, such as the camera, microphones and screens symbiotically, ensuring that when you enter the meeting room, all you have to do is connect your laptop wirelessly to the ClickShare and start your meeting.
You can use either the ClickShare Button or the ClickShare App to connect as both offer the same ease of use. With a single and simple click, you can start your meeting or share content on the screen, directly from your laptop. ClickShare does not require you to use any cable while connecting with your laptop, making your meeting experience all the more hassle-free. With absolute ease of use and the ability to leverage existing peripherals, the ClickShare Conference makes effective and seamless hybrid collaboration extremely simple.
Another strength of the innovative ClickShare is its flexibility which enables the solution to optimally work with all types of laptops, meeting room peripherals and video conferencing platforms. This triple agnostic nature of the solution ensures thatyou will always have the same native experience, whether you prefer Zoom, Microsoft Teams, WebEx, or any other conferencing platform, across Windows and Mac.
With ClickShare, our aim was to ensure that everyone is heard and seen in the meeting, no matter whether they are in the office or working from home and irrespective of which technology they have at their disposal. And that is the singular reason why users love ClickShare Conference. It is intuitive and flexible, and it makes everyone a cohesive part of the conversation.
As a future-proof solution, ClickShare Conference will remain relevant and be able to work with all future peripherals. While meeting room screens, audio systems, cameras and laptops may come and go, a ClickShare system will continue to evolve to support them all, with consistently revamped features and enhancements with each software update. That way, everyone in your organisation will enjoy a great meeting experience for years to come, ensuring superlative return on your initial investment in ClickShare. Your ROI is further enhanced by the fact that the solution poses no recurring costs.
At present, Barco’s wireless room system makes people click into more than 1 million meeting rooms worldwide, indicating its leadership in the market.
ClickShare Conference CX-50 2nd generation cares for people and planet
The CX-50 2nd generation, the premium ClickShare Conference variant, is designed to enable better decision-making and collaboration in high-impact meeting rooms. Thanks to dual screen support, every participant receives an equal seat at the hybrid meeting table, irrespective of whether they join remotely or in-room. In a hybrid environment, technology is crucial in giving all meeting participants an equal voice and making collaboration truly successful. ClickShare Conference helps increase engagement and connection between participants in hybrid meetings.