In a workplace that increasingly consists of knowledge workers, who are increasingly in remote or hybrid arrangements, collaboration has evolved from something that employees experienced in the office five days a week to something that needs to be coordinated, mostly virtually, with help from the IT and HR functions. Today, artificial intelligence is embedded into technology solutions from providers like HP, Zoom, Atlassian and Asana to reduce meeting obligations and enable smoother collaboration for a working world that is friendlier to remote work.
“We could be heading into a really creative area of work where we’re solving really complex challenges that today or until the recent past were too hard to solve because of the coordination,” Annie Dean, vice president of Team Anywhere at Atlassian, told Newsweek.
With the proliferation of flexible work arrangements over the last five years, re-creating workstreams in a fully virtual environment has become a key challenge …