A next generation hybrid office visualiser platform to enhance workforce collaboration and productivity (Focos-HOV).

当工作场所在2020年初被迫完全远程工作时，他们所需的工具和技术已经存在。主要的挑战是快速采用它们并更新长期存在的流程。对一些人来说，远程工作创造了新的工作机会，提供了更多的家庭时间，并提供了是否上下班或何时上下班的选择。这些好处意味着，随着我们摆脱疫情，许多组织认识到，从长远来看，混合型办公室是不可避免的。埃森哲（Accenture）的一项调查发现，“83%的员工更喜欢混合工作模式（25%至75%的时间远程工作）。”然而，挑战还在前面。当员工进行远程工作时，团队变得更加孤立，生产力下降，通过临时协作进行的创新和创造力被扼杀。因此，事实证明，向混合工作场所的转变比向远程工作的转变更具破坏性。一个关键因素是，创造无缝混合办公体验所需的技术在很大程度上仍处于萌芽阶段，这意味着数字办公市场存在巨大的技术差距。其中一个被大量投资的领域是虚拟和增强现实，预计到2024年市场规模将达到728亿美元。在这个市场中，创新者正在开发沉浸式和非沉浸式混合办公技术产品，但这两个领域都面临着大规模采用的重大障碍。沉浸式技术仍然昂贵且不切实际，需要用户佩戴硬件（例如耳机）。虽然非沉浸式技术提供了不需要硬件的虚拟环境，但目前的解决方案只提供基本的协作功能。目前还没有哪家公司能够利用大数据分析、人工智能（AI）和机器学习（ML）的力量。作为回应，Futuresoft有限公司，一家尖端的软件即服务（Saas）公司正在开发其名为“Focos-HOV”的最新产品线，这是一种下一代技术，旨在提供首个混合办公可视化器和协作平台。这项创新建立在Futuresoft第一款产品（Focos）的商业成功基础上，该产品使企业能够通过一个云平台操作所有SaaS应用程序，减少了用户在各种选项卡和窗口之间切换的需要。Focos- hov将超越第一代产品，利用Focos整理的数据，整合其他数据源和人工智能/机器学习技术，提供屏幕上的虚拟办公环境，显示公司成员，他们的位置，以及彼此的可用性，以增强远程和办公室工作人员的意识。Focos-HOV将提供一种改变游戏规则的混合办公技术，使员工之间的重要“计划外”互动能够促进创造力和协作，并减少不必要的上下文切换和中断。

When workplaces were forced to work fully remotely in early 2020, the tools and technology they needed already existed. The main challenge was adopting them quickly and updating longstanding processes. For some, remote work has created new job opportunities, offered more family time, and provided options for whether or when to commute. These benefits mean as we emerge from the pandemic, many organisations recognise that a hybrid office is inevitable, long-term. An Accenture survey found that "83% of employees prefer a hybrid work model (working remotely between 25% and 75% of the time)." However, challenges lay ahead. When employees do work remotely, teams become more siloed, productivity drops, and innovation and creativity through ad-hoc collaboration is stifled.The transition to a hybrid workplace is therefore proving more disruptive than the move to remote work. One crucial factor is that the technology needed to create a seamless hybrid office experience remains largely nascent, meaning there is a significant technology gap in the Digital Workplace market.One area being heavily invested in is virtual and augmented reality, and the market is expected to reach $72.8bn by 2024\. Within this market, innovators are developing immersive and non-immersive hybrid office technology offerings, however both areas face significant barriers to mass adoption. Immersive technology remains costly and impractical, requiring hardware (e.g. headsets) to be worn by the user. Whilst non-immersive technology provides virtual environments with no hardware requirement, current solutions only offer basic collaboration functionality. None currently harness the power of big data analytics, artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML).In response, Futuresoft Limited, a cutting-edge software-as-a-service (Saas) company is developing its latest product line called 'Focos-HOV' - a next generation technology which aims at delivering a first-of-its-kind hybrid office visualiser and collaboration platform. The innovation builds upon the commercial success of Futuresoft's first product (Focos) which enables businesses to operate all their SaaS applications via one single cloud platform, reducing the user's need to switch between various tabs and windows.Focos-HOV will transcend the first-generation product by harnessing the data Focos collates and integrating other data sources and AI/ML techniques to provide an on-screen virtual office environment, showing company members, their location, and availability to one another for enhanced remote and office worker awareness. Focos-HOV will provide a game-changing hybrid office technology, enabling vital 'unscheduled' interactions between workers to foster creativity and collaboration, and reduce unnecessary context switching and interruptions.