In enhancing staff communication and decreasing travel costs, the law firm Linklaters has manifested a new video service coming from Polycom to 27 offices located in 19 countries. To enhance staff communications, increase productivity and speed decision making, Linklaters set up Polycom’s RealPresence video collaboration suites in its offices along with Frankfurt, Hong Kong, London and New York.
The law firm said that by around tens of thousands of pounds, the technology has also supported the firm to decrease its travel budgets, and at the same time, it also saves 1,900 tonnes of CO2 in its first year of use. The London chief operating officer at Linklaters, Alastair Mitchell stated the essence of flexible communication to his business.
Collaborating and communicating adequately with each other, regardless with the location is critical to their capability to come across with. Video collaboration makes it available to collaborate in real-time, face to face without having to catch a flight where productivity and valuable time is consumed. Rather than travelling to the meeting, the internal travel desk of Linklaters finally provokes staff to use the video suites.
From senior executive board meetings to client meeting and training sessions, the latest platform is managed for a wide-range of activities. The level of employees demand for the video collaboration services verifies its value to the business, Mitchell explained.
The development in employee demand for video collaboration is an evidence of the facility’s accomplishment, by way of the video suites they are able to carry out virtual meetings that recommends faster communication over key locations with additional advantages of their impact on the environment and decreasing travel costs.
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