Dell’s new displays feature a dedicated button to launch Microsoft Teams, along with built-in microphones and pop-up webcams. In short, they’re the perfect monitors for remote working during quarantine.
Dell calls them the “world’s first video conferencing monitors certified for Microsoft Teams,” but there’s an even bigger point here. Major manufacturers are making it much easier to work from home and stay connected. And with an all-in-one solution like this, you no longer need to call IT to help you set everything up.
Thanks to the pandemic, more of us are working from home than ever before, and that may continue to be the case. That means we need to upgrade our home office spaces to match our real-world office spaces. Part of that is making sure our ergonomic setups are good enough to keep us healthy, but another part is making sure our technology is up to the job.
“Since [remote workers] will be on laptops, you need to separate their keyboard from their screen,” James Olander, founder and designer of The Roost Stand, told Lifewire in an email. “You can do this by either A) giving employees an external monitor for eye-level viewing, and they can still use their laptop keyboard/trackpad, or B) raising their laptop screen to eye level and giving them an external keyboard and mouse/trackpad.”