Welcome to the new world of work – free from unified communications hardware or, in some cases, even offices. At Interop Digital, IT pros shared best practices for assessing and supporting collaboration when dealing with a remote or hybrid workforce.

Microsoft said it’s letting any of its employees work from home less than 50% of the time if they wish, and considers that for most roles that has become standard. Those who wish to work remotely a majority of the time will need manager approval.

At a time marked by an increasingly distributed workforce, Slack Frontiers revealed the company’s strategic positioning mid-pandemic: Connect your people, connect your partners and connect your systems.

Microsoft Corp. has been a major beneficiary of the work-from-home boom spurred by the Covid-19 pandemic. But Chief Executive Officer Satya Nadella is realizing the pitfalls of being away from the office for so long. 

Slack Technologies Inc. has experienced outages and degraded performance Monday, disrupting work for thousands of customers who have grown more dependent on the office-chatroom service.