Through our conversations with IT teams, we have discovered a recurring theme. Many organizations provision some or all their meeting rooms with limited hardware – a display and basic plug-and-play conference camera. This setup requires employees to furnish their own devices (usually a laptop) for meetings in those rooms.
This situation has some clear limitations for hybrid work. Managing the equipment in these basic meeting rooms is not simple – it usually requires an IT tech to “make the rounds” and verify that everything is working correctly or wait until someone notifies IT that a room is not working. And second, the experience for meeting participants on both ends of a call is not ideal (or equitable).
There is a better way. In this article, we explore the advantages of transitioning from bring-your-own device (BYOD) rooms to native Microsoft Teams Rooms