Smart offices: myth or reality?

Digitalization has transformed the current environment and represents an opportunity for companies to design spaces that combine the digital and analog environment., as Carl Standertskjold explains, corporate segment marketing manager en Sony Professional Europe.

In this context of digitalization, the so-called Smart Offices or smart offices, the business response to the natural evolution of work environments after the emergence of new technologies.

The digital revolution has imposed a new philosophy that has had a high impact on the workplace and has demanded a new way of working.. This new model, increasingly social and collaborative, requires new spaces to which the Smart Offices.

Smart offices are a tool with great potential to increase the efficiency and productivity of workers and their companies., leveraging the benefits of digital transformation to achieve business objectives. The size of the corporate environment is not relevant, but it is vital to know the key elements to guarantee the success of the Smart Offices.

In this sense, context and anticipation to the future to identify changing work environment behaviors are vital, as well as the control and automation of connected devices, personalized experiences through automated services and tools to facilitate collaboration between workers.

The success of smart offices will depend on the elimination of barriers, creating a frictionless experience and a space that encourages both open conversations and collaboration.

In addition, smart workspaces, which in turn dilute the physical limits of traditional offices, have a positive impact on employee well-being and motivation and contribute to an innovative and collaborative corporate culture. And this represents a great competitive advantage.

In the coming years, technological revolutions such as Big Data, virtual reality, augmented reality, Machine Learning and robotization will challenge traditional offices and cause significant changes in the design and configuration of offices.

The role that technology has assumed has been and will be to automate daily tasks to optimize employees' time and resources.. Nevertheless, The challenge will be to humanize technology, that is to say, improve the final result and workflows and, consequently, the experience of workers.

Sony Professional Solutions Europe offers a full range of workspace management solutions with TEOS, a solution that organizes and optimizes workspaces centrally, as well as technologies that enable more efficient communication and collaboration and make the ideal of a smart work environment a reality..

Besides, TEOS solutions optimize connected devices in learning and work environments, which saves time, money and energy for organizations. Since its launch in 2017, Sony TEOS has played a key role in the digital transformation of more than two hundred organizations in twenty-eight countries.

With the new sensors, corporate projectors and professional Bravia monitors, Sony offers a broad portfolio of comprehensive workspace management solutions for the business and education sectors.. The dynamics of organizations are subject to constant change. In this sense, Sony's objective is to respond to present and future challenges, improving the efficiency and productivity of employees and companies through the TEOS range.

Carl Standertskjold

Corporate segment marketing manager en Sony Professional Europe