If you work remotely, or if you’ve evolved your work into a hybrid model that blends in-office and remote work, chances are you’re familiar with GOOGLE MEET. A lot has changed for us all in the fast-paced world of the growing digital landscape, and GOOGLE MEET recently rolled out new features to enhance your meetings. From an upgraded user interface (UI) to an offline mode that allows you to stay connected wherever you are, Google is raising the bar on what’s possible for online interactions. In this article, we’ll explore how this update will improve user experience, increase parity in meetings when it comes to collaboration, and how it will help make meetings you conduct, or join, more seamless, efficient and productive.
Most importantly, the new UI redesign, accompanying GOOGLE MEET’s update, has been created by Google for ease of use to provide both in-office and remote workers with a consistent experience. Thus, similar to what Microsoft has been doing for quite some time, Google is focusing on collaboration equity, in other words the principle according to which all participants in a meeting should have the same digital environment regardless of the place.
Recognising how people mobility today’s workplace, and that many need to join from challenging areas such as moving cars, or where connectivity in unpredictable, GOOGLE MEET offers a mode called ‘on the go’. Modes defined by Google and others can be seen as experiences optimised specifically for particular situations – for any activity that inherently includes a time dimension. As Google describes, ‘When you join with on-the-go mode, you can be part of the action wherever you are.’
Other than the major UI updates and the addition of the on-the-go mode, GOOGLE MEET has introduced several other features intending to streamline and enrich your meetings. Here’s what’s new:
The changes that Google recently made to Meet are a testament to their ongoing commitment to innovation and help us all improve collaboration online. Mining data that addresses the core needs of today’s worker, whether onsite or offsite, makes the suite of collaboration tools represent the cutting edge of technology that enables users to communicate and be productive in more powerful ways than before.
It’s a sign of how seriously they are taking these changes that Google is investing in these improvements. It shows the company understands how the nature of work is changing, and how crucial it is that all participants are treated fairly, have an equal chance to be seen and heard, and feel welcomed in this new hybrid work world that spans physical and digital spaces.
This isn’t simply Google making the best of the ‘new normal’ of remote meetings – these are innovations that are forming the future of remote work: an experience that transforms the tedium of meeting remotely into one where some 200 colleagues can interact in an inclusive and engaging manner.
As the driving force behind one of the world’s largest and most innovative corporations, Google is constantly trying to do what has never been thought possible. Having made a mission to organise the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful, the updates to Meet emphasise those responsibilities. In regularly evolving its spread of services, Google is not only reacting to the demands of the moment, but is also attempting to predict how we’ll be communicating and working tomorrow.
Finally, as I aim to wrap up this tour of GOOGLE MEET’s latest features, it’s clear that Google does all it can to keep you updated for a better experience, increase equity in collaboration and to foster Google Workspace’s tools to fit the changing needs of its users. GOOGLE MEET’s new features are here for you, if you are a remote worker who wants to bridge the gap and be more closely involved, if you’re part of a team that wants to save time by using better tools or if your organisation is embracing equality for all voices at their meetings. Because together, as we adapt to new features, we learn not only how to collaborate but how to make the future of remote work better.
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