The past year has fundamentally transformed employees’ expectations on the future office – introducing the hybrid workplace. A majority of 83% see the appeal of combining office life with work-from-home flexibility. But how organizations can succeed with this new work set-up is slightly more challenging.

As organizations reopen their offices, they are deciding how the virtual work arrangements they’ve trusted during the pandemic will factor into their long-term strategies. They’ll have to deal with:

  • Network performances
  • Video deliverability
  • Insights into video analytics

Going forward, parts of your workforce will continue to work from home but some of them are coming back to the office. What that means is that video communication will continue to be one of the top internal communication formats.

Can your office network handle a hybrid workplace and the increase in video usage? If you’re not sure, here’s what to consider.

1. Ensure your Performance & Deliverability

Make sure that your network is capable of delivering large-scale video communications for both live and on-demand. Every viewer in your company should be able to watch your videos smoothly without it affecting the office network.

Find out how you can utilize your existing network investment to distribute high-quality video and at the same time reduce bandwidth from the video source (by up to 99%).

2. Check Multi-Platform Support

Check the platform you use for video distribution so that it offers multi-platform support. In that way, you can guarantee quality video streaming in your office, no matter which platform you use.

Hive Streaming is an example of a video distribution solution that offers integrations with leading enterprise video platforms. Hive connects video channels, players, and network infrastructures to optimize video experiences from the ground up. Read more about the integration here.

3. Stress Test Your Network

In addition, you need access to tools that can monitor and test network readiness in your office. Such tools should also be able to monitor and test stream health as well as video experience to make sure your videos are of high quality before your viewers even see them.

In this blog post, you can learn more about silent testing and how it simulates a live event without involving any end users.

4. Measure Performance, Deliverability, and Employee Engagement

For the Hybrid workplace set up to work properly without leaving anyone behind – effective and inclusive video communication is key.

Simply communicating company news is not enough. You have to make sure that your employees actually understood the message. But how do you know that everyone is on the same track?

What many organizations often miss is the opportunity to analyze usage data that powerful video analytics solutions can provide. With an extensive analytics service, you don’t only get access to a number of participants, but to aggregated event metrics like:

  • Viewing time
  • Network impact
  • Streaming performance

Read more about how you can gain more extensive insights on your internal video communication.

Summary:

In short, to make sure that your office network can handle a Hybrid workplace, these are the 4 preparations you need to have under control:

  1. A strong network to handle large-scale video streaming.
  2. Use a video stream solution with multiplatform support.
  3. Test your live stream before going live.
  4. Measure employee engagement for effective and inclusive video communication.