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The only validation that ultimately really matters – Customer Satisfaction

What’s better than getting recognition and accolades from industry experts and analysts? Well, I would suggest being celebrated by our satisfied customers is really the ultimate validation that a vendor can receive. Atos Unify has a long history in the enterprise communications and collaboration space, and over the many decades, we have accumulated over 40…

Remote working and Decarbonization: Our employees speak out

Decarbonization. It seems like a relatively new term, but in fact, it has been around for at least five years. The general idea is reducing or eliminating our carbon emissions, for the benefit of the environment and ultimately the health of our planet. Remote working has long been a good way to reduce carbon emissions, not to mention…

Venturing back into the office – best practices and innovations for the ‘new normal’

First off – we acknowledge that there are significant differences across countries and regions in terms of readiness to re-occupy traditional office spaces. So, this discussion may be jumping the gun in some places, while in others the timing is very much appropriate. In any case, pivoting to the…

Ensuring business continuity during the crisis: customer stories from the trenches

The ability to implement contingency plans in response to the rapid onset of the COVID pandemic is one of the keys to maintaining business continuity for Atos enterprise customers. From enabling remote working with the right security measures to accessing mission-critical applications – Atos has stepped up the challenge. We continue to be…

Does the remote working boom prove that Global collaboration can be just as effective as Local?

I have always believed that collaboration is driven by human engagement – supported by a healthy dose of trust, communication, cooperation, and shared goals. The current COVID-19 crisis has proven that even teams that have always worked in physical proximity or were co-located have discovered that…

Your post-COVID workplace - planning for the New Normal

Although the immediate health crisis will pass, the imprint on our workplaces may be indelible. Recent surveys by industry analyst firms highlight this impact. For example, IDC uncovered a significant increase in Collaboration technology investments (68% of respondents*), with the observation "the main tool of internal and external collaboration, many companies foresee increased…

Lessons learned: Our employees reflect on 3 months of working-from-home

Everyone’s work-from-home experience is unique, and the lessons learned during this harrowing period are varied. We asked our own employees to offer their reflections on how the transition to remote and home-based working has worked out for them

7 practical ways to conquer work-from-home burnout

It’s totally normal to feel more stressed than usual working within our current pandemic situation. But if you are starting to feel like you are hitting a wall of exhaustion, depletion, detachment, and lack of efficacy in your job – you may be experiencing the beginning of a work-related syndrome called “burnout”. The initial novelty of…

This is my favorite thing about working from home!

Our in-house community of employee experts (known as our Digital Envoys) have spoken up again – this time on the topic of the favorite aspects of home-based working. Judging from their responses, clearly, there are two themes that have emerged. Theme one is all about saving time and avoid the daily commute to and from the…

Working on your fitness: 10 ways to get healthier than ever while working from home

Your step-counter used to register thousands of steps per day, but now it is just a relatively paltry few hundred. Maybe your back feels tighter and a bit more achy than usual. Your local gym is closed. Jogging in the park is not allowed. Now what? Just…

8 ways to overcome feelings of working-from-home isolation

So by now, we’ve all read up on those helpful working-from-home tips – we’ve gotten into the groove of it, and we’re feeling productive. But after a period of days and weeks, you increasingly notice something is missing. If you previously worked from a traditional office, you might miss the easy back-and-forth of office chatter…

Forget about work-life balance – and find your work-life harmony

With more of us working from home for the foreseeable future, many people are struggling with maintaining what has been known as striking the right "work-life balance". Some experts advise that you should strive to set firm boundaries when working from home in terms of the time of day, office-like dress code,…

Make Your Video Meetings Great!

The transition from face-to-face to video meetings may feel awkward for many people. Especially if you are not used to it or feel a little camera-shy. Even those who have used video conferencing before may need a refresher on how to best participate and collaborate with their teams or customers using video. So, here we have compiled an easy to follow guide…

2020 vision: Eight digital resolutions to make for the coming year

Agility, innovation, simplicity, engagement, efficiency, effectiveness, privacy, security, compliance, sustainability, and ethics. With so many imperatives tied to Digital Transformation, it is no wonder that making tactical choices and strategic investment decisions are more challenging than ever. But complacency with "what works now" is not going to carry you forward in our rapidly…

Predictions: 8 ways that humans and technology will intersect in 2020

Each year around this time, we offer food for thought in the form of predictions for the coming year. Just as we collectively might feel that we’ve seen the arrival of the digital revolution, more change is forthcoming – at a faster rate and with more impact. More than ever, new technologies are…

The team meeting experience – ten subtle ways that ‘virtual’ is better than being there in person

Recent studies from across the globe show that about half of organizations still have not embraced flexible and remote working or distributed virtual teams. Sometimes there is a good reason for that – certain job types are obviously not a good fit for ‘anywhere’…

Soft Skills vs. Hard Skills: What’s Better to Enable Tomorrow’s Team Success?

Is your organization’s hiring criteria and training curriculum oriented toward hard skills and qualifications like project management, programming, technical certifications, degrees, languages and operating proficiency? These teachable skills are tangible and relatively easy to identify. However, in terms of team success and project outcomes, often it is the “softer” skills – collaboration,…

Staying Focused: Avoiding distractions means better productivity

Staying focused in the office can be a Herculean task. From annoying ringtones and message notifications to loud (and sometimes far too personal) conversations among co-workers, the list of potential distractions is seemingly endless. Given all of this, how do we stay focused and “on-task”? We recently tapped into the “wisdom of the crowd” once again, to ask…

Make Your Meetings More Productive

Here Are Twenty ‘Rapid-Fire’ Tips It seems that making group meeting time more productive has always been a priority. Even today, with the latest tools and technologies, we sometimes struggle to make the best use of the time that teams spend together. With that in mind, we tapped into the “wisdom of the crowd” from our own employee experts to solicit the…

Ending Urban Gridlock: “Anywhere Working” Can Serve A Higher Civic Purpose

Most large North American urban areas, with populations in the millions, endure traffic gridlock problems along with over-stressed public transit systems. Simply getting around has become increasingly difficult – to the point where transportation (and related pollution) has become a central issue in many civic elections. Meanwhile, the concept of “anywhere working” has come…

The Intersection of Artificial Intelligence and Enterprise Communications

The thought of software robots and artificial intelligence (AI) in the workplace may make some knowledge workers nervous. But instead of seeing a threat of being “replaced”, workers should think of the new technologies as making them more productive, satisfied and effective in their job. Why? AI can make several elements of daily communication and collaboration in the…

The Evolution of Remote Working: Balance, Integration, Harmony

New research finds that flexible work lifestyles are not an ‘all or nothing’ affair At Unify, we have pioneered research and thought leadership that sheds light on the way we work, and in particular helps us understand the trends, elements and tools that contribute to productive and satisfying work lifestyles. Remote, mobile and home-based working has…

Can fewer meetings lead to better collaboration?

Three new ways to foster collaboration without more meetings. A colleague shared a recent study with me. It said that most employees feel that many meetings they attend are unnecessary and/or unproductive (what a surprise). But it got me thinking, since working remotely and participating in more and more virtual teams, I seem to have noticeably fewer scheduled meetings…