The Center for Digital Government (CDG) surveyed state and local government leaders and found that nearly half of employees nationally are working in a hybrid environment and half plan to continue to do so at least for the next two years. However, the top challenges respondents face when working from home include background noises and distractions and people not turning on video in meetings, while nearly 50 perent of those working in the offic...

In today’s hybrid work environment, your organization needs a communications platform that enables true collaboration no matter where your team may be. On the internal side, that means a flexible and scalable solution that enables your staff to get the job done. Externally, it means providing a seamless constituent experience from anywhere, on any device, at any time. As state and local government agencies continue to evolve their hybrid...

Digital experience is now a fundamental element of how governments connect with their constituents and engage their workforces. With the ongoing shift toward contactless service delivery and remote work, it is critical for public agencies to be able to deliver high-quality, user-centric digital interactions that meet residents, business owners and employees where they are — online. Government Technology will host a 30-minute interactive...

As You Move Toward Bringing Employees Back, Give Your Teams The Tools To Help Them Stay Safe And Productive On The Job With Solutions From Microsoft About The Virtual Conference: While chances are your work environment has changed greatly in the past year, Microsoft tools will allow you to remain effective and create an integrated work environment for all of your internal communications needs. Microsoft SharePoint & Teams demonstrations w...

Gartner outlined Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) as a new framework that converges networking and network security into a unified platform built and managed on cloud-native architectures. That was in 2019. A lot has changed since then. The disruptions of the past 18 months completely redefined the security environment. The remote workforce calls for new agility and flexibility in securing the network, and the idea of permanent hybrid work cr...

Keeping government running is difficult – especially remotely and/or with social distancing guidelines. Hear from clerks across the country as they open up about the challenges they were facing and the secure, cloud-based solutions they were able to implement to ease their workload and help empower a transparent and agile digital government. Join us on Tuesday, September 28, from 2 – 2:20 p.m. ET / 11 – 11:20 a.m. PT for Sept...

The pandemic has permanently altered the way government conducts business, including where it conducts business. Recent Center for Digital Government research found nearly three-quarters of state and local agencies anticipate hybrid work — where employees work from home at least on a part-time basis — will be their long-term model. But it will take innovation and creativity to make this workplace of the future successful. In a new...

Join Government Technology and Cisco on September 15 at 11am PT/2pm ET as we discuss how organizations around the world have faced an unprecedented change: the massive and overnight shift to remote work due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Now the future of work will be hybrid. Every meeting moving forward will have in-room attendees and remote attendees, and it’s imperative that governments create an inclusive experience for every member of th...

Strategies For Optimizing Your Digital Workplace, Including Microsoft Teams, SharePoint And M365, For Boosted Collaboration, Communication And Productivity Microsoft Teams, SharePoint & M365 have taken most workplaces by storm. But keeping up has not always been easy. Many workers have not fully adopted Teams as a top-down or project communication platform. Others have over-adopted Teams and created often confusing sets of Teams, Channels...

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