![]() ![]() Walkabout Workplace prides itself on its “in office” experience. Let’s take a look at some of the providers of virtual office platforms for remote workers: 1. Which vendors offer a virtual office platform? We will review some of the collaboration and video conferencing solutions in another blog, but this post focuses specifically on virtual office platforms and how they are of value for remote workers and remote teams in helping to manage culture and foster collaboration in teams whilst also maximising employee engagement with their teams and office and therefore reducing remote worker isolation. Virtual office platforms specifically set out to create a simulated office environment, but online – so not just recreating the collaboration space of a meeting room for a single team, but a multi-office, multi-purpose online space which offers a host of solutions for remote workers from interviewing rooms to training rooms to virtual water coolers. There are hundreds of video conferencing solutions for remote workers, in addition to collaboration tools that combine video conferencing with ideation boards, whiteboarding, screen-sharing and more. How are virtual office platforms different to collaboration platforms and video conferencing? A virtual office enables teams to feel they are still working together as a team, whilst also providing additional functionality like the ability to meet with clients, hold interviews, training, onboarding and social interactions. ![]() Weekly scheduled video-calls aren’t enough to replicate the ongoing office chatter and banter which perpetuates a culture and creates a sense of team and belonging. One of the biggest challenges for remote workers has been isolation and lack of engagement with co-workers. ![]() Why is a virtual office platform useful for remote workers? Most virtual office platforms use office schematics – some systems allow you to personalise these to simulate your real-office environment, or to create something fun and different, like coffee lounges, virtual bars, virtual conference spaces, picnic areas – or even the whitehouse office (available in walkabout workplace’s solution). They can set themselves to “busy” mode if they’re working on something which requires quiet time. Or, workers might choose to come together into a simulated office environment but “in the background” and continue with their work, knowing that their colleagues are also working and they can chat and interact as required. It enables remote workers to meet in a simulated office, through teleconferencing, or to hold candidate interviews, or training sessions.
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