Recent events around COVID-19 have put us into uncharted territory and we have had to reassess some of the basic norms of how we conduct our daily lives. Businesses and governments across the globe are having to make difficult decisions on how to manage the current crisis and safeguard constituents while ensuring businesses and global commerce keep moving forward.
Schools have been cancelled and many employees are now being required to work from home, cut back on face-to-face meetings and to eliminate all non-essential travel. The concept of telecommuting has moved from a “bonus” or “perk”, to becoming “mission critical” in ensuring global business continuity. Fortunately, recent advances in technology have put us in a much better position to work remotely today than even a couple of years ago.
Microsoft Teams is the platform that will help your organization work remotely while driving better collaboration within your teams. As a result of the COVID-19 crisis, Microsoft is making Microsoft Teams available to everybody!
If you already own Office 365, then you already have Teams; If you don’t currently own Office 365, then Microsoft is giving away free licenses for Teams with unlimited users through January 2021. This is a great opportunity to equip your business with the tools and capabilities needed to navigate in today’s environment while minimizing any potential disruptions.
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Microsoft Teams is the mostly widely used collaboration platform with over 500,000 organizations using Teams in 181 markets and over 44 languages. Teams is already built into Office 365, SharePoint, and Outlook. It acts as an aggregator for existing tools and functionality to be integrated into a single workplace for groups to collaborate with.
While Teams has tremendous capabilities… it also has tremendous capabilities (no, not a typo). Most firms who already use Teams do not realize its full benefits and typically use only the more common capabilities such as instant messaging, phone calls and video meetings. When properly implemented, Teams can become a force multiplier and the cornerstone of your firm’s collaboration strategy. This capability is not only critical as we deal with the current impacts of COVID-19 but is also essential as we look to what collaboration means in the future.
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