Polycom in its new study revealed that India is leading the region in enabling productive meetings between onsite and remote participants with a choice of collaborative tools in huddle meeting areas, including audio and video conferencing, content sharing, and digital whiteboards.
The survey Growing Big Ideas from Small Spaces: The Polycom Huddle Room discover the top collaboration preferences among businesses and employees in Asia Pacific – Australia, China, India, Japan, Korea, and Singapore. The report sought to understand the growth in popularity of using smaller meeting spaces or huddle rooms.
The study surveyed over 2000 APAC workers, including 202 respondents from India, showed that Indian employees are exceptional in their use of technology with an overwhelming majority using collaboration tools in small meeting rooms, or Huddle Rooms, to work smarter in many ways.
Highlights Include:
- Indian respondents are the top users of video conferencing and content sharing solutions in APAC
- Majority of meeting participants from India (76%) use a laptop to share content, while nearly half (44%) also use a mobile device.
- The growth in popularity of working from anywhere or teleworking makes an impact
- Internal meetings, customer meetings, recruitment and training were the top uses for huddle rooms in India.
- Over half of Indian respondents indicated that HR functions including virtual training sessions and interviews, performance reviews with remote participants benefit from technology-enabled huddle rooms.
“Today’s workers increasingly depend on technology to achieve high levels of productivity. They expect to connect instantly, work smarter, produce outcomes and drive results quicker. Technology-enabled huddle rooms satisfy this need for real-time, productive collaboration and are now, more than ever, an important component in an organisation’s digital transformation journey”, said Minhaj Zia, VP Sales, Polycom India, SAARC and SEA.
“Huddle rooms are agile, flexible spaces that are critical to the modern workplace and new ways in which people want to work. Organisations have to enrich more workspaces and respond to a growing need for high performance meetings” Zia added
