Google Workspace has introduced a number of enhancements to its Meet, Chat, and Voice apps, with the goal of boosting cooperation and interaction for hybrid teams. 

Organizations that use hybrid meetings have both in-person and online participants. Google Meet is developing improvements to guarantee video conferences are safe and accessible, regardless of location or choice, in order to enhance efficiency. 

In-meeting responses will be added to Google Meet, allowing participants to visibly convey thoughts. These replies will display in a person’s video tile or, if their video tile isn’t available, will overflow beside their name. 

In the following weeks, Google will also integrate Meet straight to Docs, Sheets, and Slides. Participants may begin a meeting and take it to a document, spreadsheet, or presentation, which they can then show to all participants. 

According to Google, this allows everybody in the meeting to interact in real-time while conversing—all from the very same tab. 

Moreover, Google is bringing picture-in-picture to Meet operating on Chrome browsers to let presenters and multitaskers view their listeners while surfing other tabs and windows. 

As you exchange material or send out a message in Gmail, four video tiles of participants appear in a hovering window above other applications. Clicking on the picture-in-picture button immediately returns you to the complete Meet session. 

With the recent release of Companion mode for Meet, Google provided in-room meeting participants with a means to remain involved when using in-room audio and video. 

Meet implemented automatic noise suppression on all Google Meet devices, namely Logitech, Acer, and Asus hardware, to enhance the experience for users. This will aid with the removal of background sounds, such as noisy typing in a meeting room or the neighbor’s lawnmower. 

Participants in meeting rooms will be capable of adding their own personal video tile via Companion mode and their laptop camera in the months ahead. 

Google Meet’s streaming functionality will also be improved. Users of Google Meet may now hold meetings with up to 500 active participants and broadcast to audiences of up to 100,000 over verified Google Workspace domains. 

Livestream participants will be able to engage in Q&A and polls soon in 2022. Consumers also have asked for the possibility to reach a larger community by streaming live on other platforms. From the Meet activities menu, Google will stream meetings straight to YouTube. Because of our interface with YouTube, we can utilize a Google account for verification, which simplifies the live streaming procedure. 

Finally, next month, Google will make voluntary client-side encryption available in Google Meet to help maintain your most important discussions secure and confidential (currently in beta). Consumers have full control over the encryption keys and the identity provider used to obtain those keys using this functionality. 

Spaces in Google Workspace provide a platform for collaboration anywhere at any time. 

Google Meet provides inline threading to improve interactions, allowing participants to reply to particular remarks and start side conversations while keeping the topic organized and relevant. 

Every colleague may quickly navigate a place and pick up on things that are essential to them at a convenient time and place for them. 

Google has made it possible for individuals to welcome others to join a Space through a shared link, and subsequently in 2022 users will be able to browse for and join Spaces across a company. 

Google is upgrading searching within Chat and Spaces to identify relevant documents and discussions, adding filter chips to chat search results soon in 2022, and growing its staff to 25,000 by the end of 2022 to serve communities as they develop. 

Google is introducing a new tool to strengthen content management to foster great team culture: the option to select administrators and standards for individual Spaces, as well as the ability to remove Spaces. 

Google has observed a surge in demand for cloud-based phone systems that free individuals from the constraints of traditional desk phones. 

Google Voice provides an easy calling experience across platforms (internet, smartphone, and authorized desk phones) whilst employing Google’s AI to assist in saving time by eliminating spamming, transcribing voicemail messages, and directing callers. 

Google has stated that calls from European Google Voice numbers to mobile and landline lines in various European countries will be included in their Google Voice license to assist European consumers in adopting Google Voice. 

Eventually, in 2022, Google will launch a SIP link, that will enable clients to connect SIP trunks from their preferred telecommunications carrier using approved session border controllers. 

Consumers with operational processes outside of our existing service zones will be able to migrate to Google Voice as a result of this. Administrators will be able to handle these carrier-supplied numbers with Google-supplied numbers straight in the Google Admin Console. 

Google Voice Standard and Premier members will be able to record calls starting in April. Premier subscribers will also get access to automated phone recordings.