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The modern construction workforce has become increasingly remote, shifting toward a location-agnostic setting. Market reports show that 61% of employees prefer being remote full-time.

While remote work has its advantages in terms of accessibility and convenience, your business will need the right tools for optimized communication for teams deployed across job sites. From video conferencing platforms to collaborative documents, it is essential to integrate intuitive communication solutions that promote virtual teamwork.

You can decide on the most suitable communication solutions for your construction team by first assessing the specific needs of your employees and providing suitable technology in response to their priorities.

Remotely-conducted site management has set the stage for greater workplace flexibility where empathy will remain a driving force across communication channels, creating a powerful feedback loop that drives constant improvement. On the other hand, the lack of an organized collaborative platform might result in communication delays and disruptions that could compromise your construction processes, resulting in reduced productivity and increased safety issues.

Every construction employee has a preferred communication channel or method. Some individuals prefer email exchanges while others would rather communicate via video conference or voice call. For optimal results, you might consider a versatile platform that offers various communication methods that you can conveniently alternate between according to your on-site tasks and collaborations.

For example, you might implement instant messaging programs that support group webinars when sharing content or documents in a complex project. This arrangement makes it easier to convey a message to multiple participants, rather than relying on personalized email exchanges and individual calls.

Another thing to consider is unified communications as a service (UCaaS), which enables your organization to streamline tools via the cloud, including voice calls, video, and text messaging according to immediate organizational objectives of remote worksites.

Collaboration platforms with built-in messaging enable various construction professionals to communicate seamlessly while sharing information or content. Ideally, these solutions should optimize single and large-scale discussions, making it easy to navigate and manage chat or video calls that involve varying group sizes.

Communication platforms with built-in messaging should make it extremely convenient for participants to group conversations into channels, which makes it more simple to share documents for specific collaborations and conversations. However, you may choose to conduct private conversations with certain participants for the exchange of confidential content and topics.

Balancing between synchronous and non-synchronous communication remains key in optimized remote discussions. The increase in remote communications has led to Zoom fatigue among professionals.

Video calls remain essential for team members to communicate effectively with the right visual cues that eliminate the risk of miscommunication. However, supplementing real-time solutions with recorded/asynchronous content makes for smooth collaboration between participants from varying time zones and schedules.

Asynchronous content works best for multiple scenarios, such as:

For instance, asynchronous tools make it extremely convenient for you to record a video and upload screen-sharing guidelines in a matter of seconds.

Synchronous communication solutions, such as team chat messaging platforms, enable teams to communicate in real-time to address issues and roll out responses in urgent scenarios, such as follow-ups in a construction work site accident.

Similar to asynchronous video tools, whiteboard platforms serve as an effective means of sharing design plans and visuals across each stage of construction. Some digital whiteboarding solutions enable the presentation of concepts in a simple and effective manner.

Flexible kanban-style platforms can inspire innovation with multiple templates that will expedite the whiteboarding experience. You may choose from a range of template categories that include consulting, sales and customer success, and technology for optimized outcomes across your construction projects.

Some common features in a whiteboarding solution include sticky notes, built-in messaging, audio and video call communication, file upload capabilities, and a dynamic library of templates for frictionless presentations.

Fellow participants in an asynchronous whiteboarding solution can conveniently respond to posted content at their own pace, adding comments and files through diagramming, mapping, and private mode messaging capabilities.

Collaboration across remote worksites may result in poor time management and reduced cost-productivity without a proper tracking solution.

A well-placed timer within your communication tools ensures that participants keep meetings and collaborations concise and optimized while minimizing the risks of time overrun. Remember to factor in some break time for longer online sessions to make the process more manageable for your participants to sustain their focus and attention.

Timer applications provide close monitoring of your online video sessions to avoid delays and disruptions that may occur during a virtual meeting. Some advanced applications provide an auto-join setting for each of your video conference sessions for a fuss-free process.

While remote work has many benefits, including greater work-life balance, enhanced productivity, and company cost savings in the long term, it is critical to choose the right combination of tools for optimized communication among teams.

More importantly, you will need to frequently review your communication stack to keep up with shifting employee demands, making sure to always keep on top of the latest technology and workplace trends.

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ThePayGroup Ltd(ASX: PYG) share price hit a record high of 93.5 cents during early morning trade today. This comes following the companys latest takeover news.

Since then, shares in the human capital management (HCM) solution company have slightly retraced to 92.5 cents, up 153.43%.

Lets take a look below at what the company updated the market on.

In itsrelease, PayGroup announced it has entered into a Scheme Implementation Agreement with Deel, Inc. and Deel Australia.

Established in 2019, Deel helps businesses hire independent contractors and full-time employees by using a tech-enabled self-serve process. The company has a presence in over 150 countries and services more than 8,000 customers.

By way of a scheme of arrangement, Deel is seeking to acquire 100% of the ordinary shares in PayGroup.

Under the terms of the deal, PayGroup shareholders will receive cash consideration of $1 for each PayGroup share held. This represents a 174% premium when compared to yesterdays closing price of 36.5 cents.

The consideration implies a total value of around $119.3 million, subject to certain customary conditions.

The PayGroup Board noted that it unanimously recommends that all shareholders vote in favour of the Scheme.

If approved along with the court order, the deal is expected to be complete in October 2022.

With investors digesting the companys latest news today, the PayGroup share price has soared into uncharted territory.

PayGroup managing director, Mark Samlal commented:

We are delighted by this proposed transaction with Deel.

The value offered is testament to the strength of the PayGroup business we have grown over the last 4 years since listing on the ASX in 2018.

We have built a high-quality business with strong, recurring revenues from blue-chip customers across Asia-Pacific and beyond.

We are immensely proud of the achievements of the PayGroup team and we look forward to continuing to build this together as part of Deel, one of the worlds fastest growing and leading global compliance and payroll solution companies.

Adding to todays euphoric gains, the PayGroup share price has accelerated by 172% since the start of 2022.

When looking at the past 12 months, the companys shares are up 101%.

Based on todays price, PayGroup commands amarket capitalisationof around $43.19 million.

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VR headsets can potentially dethrone smartphones as the go to devices to connect and communicate

VR headsets can potentially dethrone smartphones as the go to devices to connect and communicate

You must be in a different world if you have not heard of the metaverse yet. The word became popular after Facebook renamed itself as Meta last year, and said it would invest $10 billion to build a digital land for people to interact and socialise. Facebook is not the only company charting a course to make a name for itself in the digital world. Google and Microsoft are all putting their teams to build a yet-to-be fully understood online space.

Tech titans are busy building hardware and developing software for digital avatars of real people to interact and socialise. Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality (VR/AR) headsets are therefore, one of the important cogs in this online fantasy land. VR/AR devices are the keys to unlock passage into the digital land. These gadgets take people into the virtual world to meet and greet each other. And some early movers failed to usher in a VR era without these gadgets.

In 2016, Google attempted to corner a share of the market with its Cardboard headset. The disposable spectacle shells allowed users to slide their smartphones into them for short VR experiences. Though the search giant shipped millions of devices to customers for free, it could not make the leap to a consumer headset. Part of the problem was the smartphone used to power these experiences. The phones ability to provide immersive on-the-go experiences were limited as 3D apps drained battery and the units were not easy to set up. At this point, stand-alone VR headsets like Oculus Rift and HTC Vive were providing much better user experiences for a few hundred dollars.

According to market intelligence firm IDC, Facebooks Oculus Quest 2 is the most popular VR device with 78% share of the AR/VR market in 2021. Nearly 9.4 million VR headsets were sold last year, a number that could rise to 13.6 million by the end of this year. The headsets Meta makes cater to individual consumers and are specifically designed for the metaverse that CEO Mark Zuckerberg has envisioned. Not all companies are interested in the retail consumer market where VR will be primarily used for gaming.

At the other end of the mixed reality market is Microsoft. The Window software maker unveiled its augmented reality headset back in 2015 with a $3,000 price tag, an expensive piece of gadget. The Richmond-headquartered company targets enterprise customers to sell its VR gadgets. The industry-defining HoloLens headsets were described at that time of launch as "the most advanced holographic computer the world has ever seen." The device had a self-contained computer with a CPU, a GPU (graphics processing unit), and a hologram processor. It also enabled spatial sound so people could hear holograms from behind them. Complete with a dark visor, the headsets could sense movement and the users immediate surrounding.

HoloLens was several notches above Google Glass, which was similar to Microsofts device but suffered from a slow hardware and patchy application ecosystem.

Three years after the launch, Microsoft signed a $480 million deal with the U.S. Army to sell customised HoloLens, called Integrated Visual Augmented System (IVAS). The headset augmented the view of a user by overlaying digital objects on top of the real world. In 2021, Microsoft bagged another large contract with the same government agency. This time around, it would sell over 1,20,000 HoloLens headsets in a deal worth more than $20 billion over a period of 10 years.

A year on, the software giant is bleeding talent in its augmented reality division. According to a report by The Wall Street Journal, nearly 100 people from the mixed reality department left the company within a year. Most of them moved to Meta Platforms to build its products for the metaverse.

If that wasnt enough, the brain behind the HoloLens at Microsoft and the creator of the Kinect camera, Alex Kipman, has resigned following allegations of sexual harassment and verbal abuse. Microsoft developed its industry-defining HoloLens under Kipmans leadership. The headset became the go to device for engineers to run their mixed reality projects. Several companies used the device to train their employees; in some cases, medical students used them to immerse themselves in clinical procedures. Now, as Kipman leaves the company, its entire mixed reality division is undergoing a reorganisation, according to an internal memo obtained by GeekWire.

The talent exodus and the organisational rejig has dealt a blow to Microsofts vision of a mixed reality, making it reroute resources and people at a time when the market for AR/VR is heating up. Some have also pointed out Microsofts plans to partner with Samsung to build its VR gadget as possible reason for a churn within the mixed reality division.

VR headsets can potentially dethrone smartphones as the go to devices to connect and communicate. But companies building VR hardware and software are catering to different class of users some to other businesses, others to individual consumers. Firms are also facing a talent crunch as rivals poach people to build their own products.

The path to a VR future looks blurred for now.

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In 2016, Google attempted to corner a share of the market with its Cardboard headset. However, it could not make the leap to a consumer headset as the smartphone used to power these experiences was limited. 3D apps drained battery and the units were not easy to set up.

Microsoftlaunched its augmented reality headset back in 2015. The industry-defining HoloLens headsets had a self-contained computer with a CPU, a GPU, and a hologram processor.

According to a report by The Wall Street Journal, nearly 100 people from the mixed reality department left Microsoft within a year. The talent exodus has dealt a blow to Microsofts vision of a mixed reality, making it reroute resources and people at a time when the market for AR/VR is heating up.

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(WXYZ) Over the last 20 years, technology has advanced rapidly. Along the way, things have come and gone. And now, one of the oldest game-changing softwares in Internet history has been laid to rest.

RELATED: So long, Internet Explorer. The browser retires today

On Wednesday, Microsoft shut down Internet Explorer, one of the world's earliest web browsers to ever be created.

Internet Explorer visuals

At the time of its entrance in 1995, the web browser was considered a hero amongst web users.

A lot of people like to paint Microsoft as kind of the villain in any tech story, but in this particular situation, it basically broke the monopoly that had not yet happened that Netscape was trying to do on the browser market," Charles R. Severance the Clinical Professor at the University of Michigans School of Information said.

Netscape was one of the first web browsers that worked across multiple devices.

The software was created by a group of college students. It was originally free and under the name Mosiac.

Now they had come from University where they had given it away for free and made us all want this really badly, and their first goal was to get rid of the free version of the web browser," Severance said.

It was clear that any new developers who entered the browser industry could be very rich. So Netscape decided to charge each user $50 to download the software.

And that might have happened except for Internet Explorer. And thats where Internet Explorer comes into the picture."

Microsoft realized that if a commercial web browser entered the market then everyone who paid for one of its devices would, in turn, be paying for someone elses software. Thus, they would be making Netscape very rich.

To stop this they decided to create their own web browser and to make it free.

Theres numbers, they hired like 1000 people in late 1994 to build Internet Explorer and it actually included some of the free software that was Mosaic, Severance said.

As technology continued to advance, more and more web browsers began to form and Internet Explorer strived to stand outa tactic that would eventually hurt them.

The whole web continued to evolve, the Internet Explorer did not want to evolve so thats how it goes to be something that we sort of laugh about, Severance said.

Quickly, users began to switch to browsers like Firefox and Google Chrome, but in this day and age, Severance says developers don't work as hard to knock each other out of the browser market, instead they work together to create a better user experience.

So perhaps this signals a golden age of kind of muted competition," Severance said. "Thats the optimistic way to look at the end of the long history of Internet Explorer.

To learn more about the history of Internet Explorer, the fall of Netscape, the rise of Google Chrome, the outlier browser that is Safari, and the future of web browsers as a whole watch the full interview with Charles R. Severance below.

UM professor recaps the life of Internet Explorer, the rise of Google Chrome and more

You can also skim through the video on YouTube. The description has a topic breakdown of the entire interview.

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