The next few days will be difficult for French workers. The strike movement announced against the pension reform will cause a disruption of traffic and even a paralysis of transport networks. As a result, many employees will not be able to get to their workplaces. To ensure continuity of their activity and allow their employees to come to work, companies must anticipate and find alternatives adapted to this situation. Encouraged by the government, teleworking is one of the main ways organizations are considering to face this delicate situation.
Telecommuting advanced video-collaboration: finding the right tools for telework: a headache for companies
From a legal point of view, and in certain situations (weather events, social movements), it is simple for a company to authorize its employees to telework: in the absence of a charter or collective agreement, this consent must be formalized by any means (internet note, email etc.). As for the managers, they have to provide their teams with the best tools to facilitate remote work and try to keep an optimal productivity: the use of virtual private network (VPN) is often privileged as well as the use of the telephone for communications. We often find the use of videoconferencing, which brings the members of a group closer together, but which may have certain limitations. For teamwork, collaboration can be tricky: beyond a certain number of participants, conversations cross paths and the meeting becomes chaotic.
See each other and collaborate from home as you would at the office
Based on this issue, Tixeo, the French provider of secure video conferencing solutions, has chosen to go further in video collaboration by offering a new advanced collaboration feature: TixeoFusion.
Within a real virtual open-space, employees connected from their homes, appear as video-bubbles that can be assembled, generating independent workgroups. By activating the Fusion mode, it is possible to communicate freely in a unique collaborative space without disturbing the participants outside the discussion group. The interactions are optimized and allow large teams to work efficiently from a distance.
The innovative nature of this feature brings a new way to collaborate for all companies looking to virtualize their workspace. Specially designed for teleworking, TixeoFusion provides a feeling close to face-to-face collaboration and engages teams.
Renaud GHIA, Tixeo CEO adds: “With its innovative solution, Tixeo offers companies a real resilience against events such as strikes or bad weather that regularly prevent workers from going to their companies. To anticipate such circumstances, organizations must have the ability to virtualize their workspaces. They will thus gain in productivity and facilitate the quality of life of their employees.”
Beyond these constraining events, many companies have everything to gain by generalizing this kind of organization. Tixeo has designed this solution to meet the needs of its teams who have been teleworking full time for more than 4 years (see: “Tixeo, the French Frog 100% home office”).
