Taking Cues Online: How Proxfinity Can Make Your Virtual Workplace More Personal
The Coronavirus has ushered in considerable changes, confining people to their homes and limiting their contact with others. One of the greatest ways we feel this strain is in the workplace, as offices have gone from buildings to computer screens - and we’re relying on virtual water coolers to maintain relationships.
At the heart of Proxfinity, we’ve always wanted to bring people together. It was our mission to help people make better and more meaningful connections with one another, and lessen the innate discomfort built into approaching strangers. We started with events, helping people network effectively with prompts from our smart badge. But at our core is our ability to match the right people, on the right topics and give individuals and organizations the data they need to better navigate the social hurdles in doing business. And now, we want to make the virtual more personal too.
Face-to-face interactions tend to be awkward in nature, but give us the benefit of reading one another, picking up on body language, nonverbal cues or taking place in environments that are more inviting and conducive to networking and mingling. When we’re confined behind a screen, be it a laptop or smartphone, we lose so much of that. The fact is, if we can only hear the other person or get a limited view through our device, we still need cues to identify who we should talk to, and why.
With that in mind, we’re taking CUE - our smart badge - digital. We’re taking our predictive analysis platform and applying it to online environments to make remote working personal, efficient and satisfying. We want to take the unknown out of video conferencing and help people get to know colleagues, partners or customers better before, during and after their calls.
Our platform has always been rooted in our back-end analytics platform, and now we’re scaling it for greater digital application. Just as before, we have participants fill out a survey to aggregate data and deliver it to each individual. This way they can track people they share commonalities with, take note of others’ skill sets they are interested in or identify topics that may make for good icebreakers. Now, instead of spending time scrolling through LinkedIn profiles or trying to learn about someone else via needless Google searches, you can have it delivered right to your fingertips. Using the information we provide participants, we can help set-up groups or one-on-one meetings with people who would benefit from connecting, using a multitude of demographic or personality signals to bridge the virtual gaps. This could mean grouping people to solve a similar problem, or connecting people to help with inclusion efforts.
We’re also thinking bigger, and working to adapt our CUE for even greater online use. Imagine when you take part of a virtual meeting, if you could indicate topics or speakers of interest with a click of a button. You would signal a “favorite” to log for follow up or start a dialogue, allowing you to take advantage of opportunity in real-time as well as build out analytics on the back end. This is just one of the new features we’re exploring to make teleworking easier in this new environment, as well as increasing functionality with other video conference APIs. Stay tuned to hear about our exciting developments!
We haven’t been given the luxury of time to adapt to these new normals, and Proxfinity comes ready-to-go. Building and implementing software takes resources that companies either don’t have or can’t afford to access in this new environment, but with Proxfinity - business and organizations can simply deploy our solution and let it get to work.
We’re upon a time of enormous change - and we’re changing for you. We invite you to change with us.
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