Over the past two years, we’ve learned that employees prefer using their own devices and software. Providing this capability as we return to the office can improve on-site and remote employee user experience during video meetings.

Now, the Bring Your Own Meeting (BYOM) approach has been amplified with employees working from home or other remote locations. As employees return to the office, they may want to continue using their BYOM setup rather than the conference room computer, video conferencing codec, or touch a screen if they can.

Read on to discover how the Bose Videobar VB1 All-in-One Solution can enhance the user experience and increase employee engagement for your distributed teams.

How User Experience and Employee Engagement Support Meeting Equity

To create an optimal user experience, you need meeting equity for your global workforce across all workspaces. This includes all meeting spaces—huddle rooms, conference rooms, training spaces, remote work locations—and your meeting platforms.

Your organization may have standardized with one collaboration platform or multiple solutions. Either way, your technology needs to be interoperable to ensure you can support the tools your employees use.

Implementing the same meeting join and content sharing processes your teams are familiar with will help your remote team members feel connected and engaged. Also, team members won’t join late due to unfamiliar technology and miss part of the session.

Create a Better Meeting Experience

To truly engage your employees, they must see and hear each other clearly no matter where they work and collaborate. Their meeting experience should be the same if they are in a huddle room, conference room, or connecting from a remote location.

Clear audio is very important in a call, but it is not all you need. Video has joined audio as the standard for collaboration. Employees want to put a face to a name and have a human connection when they collaborate. Remote participants need to feel like they are in the same room as the on-site participants.

Updating your meeting spaces to include professional audio and video capabilities can be quick and easy. 

Solving Collaboration Challenges

The Bose Videobar VB1 All-in-One Solution was developed to solve collaboration problems in huddle rooms and medium-sized conference rooms. 

  • It is Microsoft Teams and Zoom certified and integrates with popular third-party cloud services like Google Meet.
  • Single cable connectivity answers the need for connecting BYOM devices to the room’s AV and UC technology. Forget having separate cables for your audio and video content—users can simply plug in their laptop and launch any collaboration platform they are comfortable using.
  • The camera’s 4K ultra-HD Autoframing Mode allows everyone to see the presenter, whiteboard, and other in-room objects.
  • Volume adjustment, mute, pan, tilt, zoom, zoom presets, and Bluetooth® pairing are all easy from your BYOM device.

The VB1 video bar connects to your existing network infrastructure, making it easy for your IT team to deploy, configure, manage, monitor, and troubleshoot.