The workforce Technology landscape is heavily influenced by the growing demands in the adoption of Automation, AI, Virtual chatbots, and Enterprise Data and Content Management. Organizations are required to quickly scale their investments into cutting-edge Workforce technology, embracing AI, Automation, Robotics, and Edge integrations. Google just went a leap ahead in workforce technology with its latest announcement. Google Workspace is now Live for everyone who has a Google Account. These would integrate experiences across Gmail, Chat, Calendar, Drive, Docs, Sheets, Meet, and more.
What is Google Meet?
Google Meet is a free video meeting solution, re-engineered recently to accommodate the latest demands of remote workplace technology users. With the launch of Workspace for everyone, Google Meet will become more accessible and useful for a larger group of users, especially individual business professionals who have a limited budget to meet growing demands from virtual meeting and selling marketplace.
Did You Imagine How New Enhancements to Google Meet Enable Collaboration Equity?
As businesses begin their return to the office, Google Workspace is announcing new innovations that enable collaboration equity—the ability to contribute equally, regardless of location, role, experience level, language, and device preference.
Companion Mode in Google Meet
Companion Mode gives every meeting participant, no matter where they are, access to interactive features and controls like polls, in-meeting chat, hand raising, Q&A, live captions, and more. Colleagues who are in the same meeting room together will enable Companion Mode on their personal devices, giving them their own video tile in Meet and helping them to stay connected with their remote teammates.
Companion Mode will be available on the web and Google Meet’s upcoming progressive web app in September, and it will be coming soon to mobile.
- New Calendar RSVP options: To allow meeting organizers to better plan for hybrid meetings, invitees will soon be able to RSVP with their join location, indicating whether they’ll be joining in a meeting room or remotely.
- Enhancements to Google Meet hardware: Starting in September, Google Workspace is enabling new interactive features, including the hand-raise feature and the ability to get notifications from polls and Q&As, on all devices that run Google Meet. This includes devices from large-scale meeting room systems such as Series One to companion devices like the Nest Hub Max.
- New controls to make meetings safe and secure: Next month, Google will introduce key moderation controls for hosts of Google Meet meetings, giving them the ability to prevent the use of in-meeting chat and prohibit presenting during meetings, allowing them to mute and unmute participants.
New Innovations to Support Trusted Hybrid Collaboration in Google Workspace
As organizations explore new ways for their teams to collaborate securely in a hybrid work world, Google is introducing several ways that it’s strengthening this foundation in Google Workspace.
- Client-side encryption will help customers strengthen the confidentiality of their data while addressing a range of data sovereignty and compliance needs. It will also strengthen meeting security when it comes to Google Meet this fall.
- Trust rules for Drive, which help control how files can be shared within and outside an organization.
- Drive labels, which classify files and apply controls based on their sensitivity levels.
- Enhanced phishing and malware protections to help safeguard against insider threats and user error.
“Google Workspace offers a solid strategy and differentiated approach to secure collaboration that focuses on the end user experience,” said Phil Hochmuth, Program Vice President, Enterprise Mobility at IDC.
Phil added, “With Client-side encryption, Google Workspace offers enterprises confidentiality of their data as now only they own the keys to their content and a solution for mobile workers, which shows that Google Workspace understands the need for a trusted cloud.”
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