The golden age of telecommuting and videoconferencing

Video conferencing is the social part of telecommuting or hybrid work, the one that allows you to be in contact with other people. In this gallery José San Emeterio, B2B General Manager at SPC, reveals how the industry of devices related to this technology is flourishing.

"Teleworking is here to stay", We were told when we were coming out of the most acute phase of the pandemic. today, almost three years later, According to the many figures and studies that have been published, It might seem that the trend has deflated.

According to the 'Survey on equipment and use of Information and Communication Technologies (TIC) in homes', published by the National Institute of Statistics (INE), Only one in seven (14 %) Telecommuting during 2022.

However, Taking a look at the United States, the Great Resignation (The Great Resignation) It has taken many jobs ahead after the massive resignation from their face-to-face jobs of thousands of people, especially of technical profiles, For a change of values brought about by the pandemic. Maybe, if their companies had been more flexible with face-to-face, That wouldn't have happened.

According to the consultant's report PwC, the 73% of Spanish companies, Three out of four, incorporated some form of telecommuting or hybrid work due to the pandemic.

It seems evident that, in Spain, A country very accustomed to face-to-face attendance until 2020, Something changed forever: according to a survey conducted by Adecco, the 81 % of Spanish workers, Four out of five, expressed willingness to continue teleworking at least two days a week after the pandemic.

in 2023 It is only necessary to take a look at the job offers to assess that blended learning and virtuality are already offered as attraction factors for labor talent.

videoconference

Video conferencing is the social part of telecommuting or hybrid work, which allows us to be in contact with other people, despite the physical distance. For years, We respect dress codes and social conventions when going to work (go neat, Greet you on arrival, Maintain minimum hygiene conditions in our workplace), taking into account that they were factors that defined us, both companies and workers, in our labour relations.

After the social earthquake due to COVID-19, which led to devices such as webcams reaching high prices in computer stores, We are now witnessing a flourishing of the sector of devices related to videoconferencing in its most professional aspect.

Brands such as Yealink, distributed by SPC For Business -the division of unified communications solutions and corporate collaboration of the Spanish firm SPC- already have 4K solutions for a more realistic viewing, Advanced microphones to better capture conversations, Panoramic cameras to record everyone attending a meeting as if they were sitting around a physical table.

Even, We're starting to see the first AI solutions for translations and meeting summaries, so that the user experience has little to envy – rather, On the contrary- to that of a face-to-face meeting.

In this sense, The rise of video conferencing led to an exponential increase in sales of these devices and the popularization of specialized applications.

In Spain, zoom experienced a growth of 378% in the number of daily users in March 2020, When the outbreak of the pandemic, compared to the same period last year. And at SPC for Business we have multiplied by 3 In recent months sales of equipment for rooms, which means that companies are preparing for this way of working.

Hybrid and remote work continues in its golden age, Even if we have left the pandemic behind us. And its growth points towards infinity, nor that it is to end the stigmas and reluctance of a business class that, Instead of valuing the possibility of talent working from anywhere in the world, Like when we were in full confinement, He still values attendance at the office as a merit, and not as a circumstance without more.

Technology, fortunately, It advances by leaps and bounds that it will put an end to any mistrust and, obstinately, Reality will prevail.

Jose San Emeterio

B2B General Manager en spc
 

 

 

 

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