Jim Necsi, CEO of Blue Foundry Bank, headquartered in Parsippany, NJ, sat down with me to discuss the “people first, technology second, but a very close second” approach to the design of their workplace technology in their brand-new 40,000 sq. ft. HQ – especially important now that organizations are up against the challenge of motivating employees to return to the office.

The Horizon® Thermostat is the embodiment of brains and beauty when it comes to climate control. It is a versatile, wall-mounted heating and cooling thermostat with an integrated humidistat that can control a wide variety of heating and cooling systems typically found in residential applications.

We’ve all been in this situation...You are a remote participant in a meeting, and there is a group in a conference room on the other end of the video feed. You have a hard time making out people’s faces, an inability to recognize facial expressions, seeing side chats happening, but not being able to hear the conversation. It’s dejecting and it causes you to lose engagement in the meeting, making you, and the meeting itself, totally unproductive.

On modern campuses, there are many new iterations of learning spaces such as huddle spaces, active learning spaces, medical, engineering, and robotic simulation labs, hybrid classrooms, even performing arts spaces are being used for classrooms when necessary. But the use of AV technology extend far beyond the classrooms.

We’re seeing an increased demand for dedicated collaboration devices for home offices, such as our Crestron Flex Phones. But the expansion of technology and spaces where technology is being installed, isn’t followed by an increase of IT people to manage them. So, how do you make sure that you can provision, monitor, and manage devices across their entire enterprise, home offices included?