Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, February 2, 2022: Logitech has announced a major update to the Sync device management platform, built to support the modern, hybrid workforce. Sync now supports personal collaboration devices, such as webcams, headsets, and docking stations, making it easy for IT to manage conference rooms and workstations from a single cloud-based interface.
More than half of all global knowledge workers are working remotely, and a majority of workers (83%) prefer a hybrid work arrangement in the future.* While a boon for employee satisfaction and productivity, hybrid work brings a host of challenges for IT professionals, including an uptick in remote help tickets, the need to properly equip workers for remote collaboration, and a disconnect between in-office and remote device administration and maintenance.
“Remote work and collaboration tools in many ways saved the global economy and allowed all of us to maintain our productivity through the pandemic. But it also created an enormous problem now that hundreds of millions of people are at home and IT teams have limited to no visibility into tech issues and how to troubleshoot this. This is a potential productivity crisis”, says Scott Wharton, General Manager and Vice President, Logitech Video Collaboration. “Logitech Sync solves this critical problem by extending these views of what’s happening in the office to the home (or anywhere else), not to mention a whole new frontier of insights and analytics to keep our organisations humming and thriving”.
It’s easy for IT to mass enroll their entire fleet of workstations with Logi Tune, while giving IT visibility into device status and enabling end users to personalise their Logitech webcams, headsets, and Logi Dock.
Sync significantly simplifies IT operations, easing some of the headaches associated with supporting distributed teams. Through a single web-based platform, IT managers can push firmware updates and enable new features to thousands of meeting rooms and millions of personal collaboration devices alike, reducing potential issues before they become trouble tickets and bring productivity to a halt. Sync works across the most popular cloud collaboration platforms like Microsoft Teams, Zoom, and Google Meet, so the IT team can get visibility on all of their devices, regardless of which platform they use.
Sync also provides valuable insights, such as meeting room occupancy, to help IT managers make critical data-driven decisions. As businesses rethink their office spaces, analytics help inform whether they should redesign their spaces to be more collaborative, shrink a large space to huddle room, or–for some facing empty hallways–give up their physical real estate altogether.
Loubna Imenchal, Head of Video Collaboration for AMECA region (Africa, Middle East Turkey, and Central Asia), said: “With hybrid working now an established feature of life for millions of people in the Middle East, Logitech’s update to Sync device management platform will help organisations to manage their remote teams seamlessly and efficiently. This will save resources, improve communication, and give employers valuable insights into how their teams are collaborating”.
*Accenture Future of Work Study 2021
*Gartner Forecasts 51% of global knowledge will be remote by the end of 2021
