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ALLI MCKEE: Hi, everyone.
My name is Alli McKee, and I'm a product manager here at Google.
Today, I'm excited to show you how Google Workspace can
help transform collaboration at your organization.
Many organizations are struggling
to equip their people with the tools they need to thrive
in a hybrid workplace.
As someone who joined Google during the pandemic,
I know how important it was for me
to be able to easily connect and collaborate
with colleagues, whether we were working from home,
the office, or elsewhere.
So let me tell you Myra's story.
This is Myra, who's about to start her first day at Cymbal
Superstore, a global retail company that recently started
using Google Workspace to transition to a hybrid model.
Myra is based in Singapore.
So she'll be tackling her first day remotely,
meeting her new manager, colleagues,
and even starting her first project.
As Myra sits down at her desk, coffee in hand,
she's ready to get started.
I'm sure some of you know how it feels to start a job remotely.
It can be a little daunting.
So let's see how it goes for Myra.
First things first, she opens her new laptop
and logs into Gmail.
She's used Gmail in her personal life for years,
so she already knows the basics.
It looks like Myra already has a few emails--
a welcome email from her new manager, Amit,
and a couple of event invites.
Like any great manager, Amit has included a few tips
to help her settle in.
He suggests setting her working hours and location in Calendar
to keep her team in the know, and carve out any personal time
she needs during the week.
Amit also asks Myra to put together a rough onboarding
plan for her first two weeks at Cymbal
and to get feedback from the project management team
during their meeting later.
It's a team tradition to pass along a few words of wisdom
to every new hire.
And he even has some info on her very first project.
She'll be opening the Cymbal Superstore
location in Singapore.
Go, Myra.
Amit would like her to introduce herself
to the rest of the project team today.
Myra is big on organization, so she'll go ahead
and start her to-do list.
Tasks are a great way for her to make
sure she keeps track of everything, big or small.
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Now let's check out those event invites.
Looks like she has a new hire orientation coming
up later today.
Now Myra can go straight to her Calendar
to see what the rest of her day looks like.
She accepts the invites to her new hire orientation and team
meeting later in the day and notes
she'll be joining the Team Sync virtually.
Myra definitely wants to block off
some time to work on her onboarding plan
before the Team Sync.
Focus time is great for eliminating distractions,
like last-minute meetings or pings from colleagues.
While she's here, she might as well
set up her working hours and location, like Amit suggested.
She'll be available 9:00 to 5:00 Monday through Thursday,
and 9:00 to 4:00 on Fridays, so she can
get to her weekly yoga class.
Priorities, right?
And since Cymbal is hybrid, she'll
be alternating between working from home and in the office.
Now that Myra's day is all planned out,
she's feeling much better.
Starting a job remotely isn't nearly as stressful
as she thought it would be.
Now it's time to start diving into those to-dos.
But first, she'll spend a bit of time chatting
with her new manager.
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It's a relief to know the team meeting will be casual.
And I bet that Asana bot will come
in handy on her first project.
Myra has used Asana as a project manager in previous roles,
and it'll be great to easily get details on her projects
without leaving chat.
It looks like Myra also has a notification in Spaces.
This probably has something to do with that Singapore project
Amit was telling her about.
What a warm welcome from her project team.
This will be a great way for Myra
to get to know colleagues from all parts of the business,
from finance to marketing to retail associates
on the front line.
Speaking of, Myra has a new message in her project space
from Sarah, retail associate at the store in Malaysia.
Sarah is going to be sharing customer insights with the team
for the store launch.
And she wants to help Myra get up to speed.
This Project Planning Doc should help.
How convenient.
Her doc and chat are in the same place.
At her last company, she had a different app for everything,
from email to chat to documents.
But having everything connected here will be a huge time saver.
The doc stretches across her entire screen
and has a lot going on.
But with interactive elements, like voting and smart chips,
it's a lot easier to digest.
Myra can easily find helpful links,
discover who's doing what, and even see
the most popular proposed store location in Google Maps.
Myra won't have time to read all of this today.
But the automatically generated summary
helps her to quickly understand the key points.
And just like that, Myra's first task of the day is done.
So it's time for her orientation.
Myra is ready to connect with some of her fellow new hires
and learn more about life at Cymbal.
The company's been growing quickly,
and there are a ton of new employees.
So this meeting will be happening in a live stream
format, which is a great alternative to a standard video
meeting when the guest list is large.
Myra takes a look at her calendar, opens the event,
and easily joins the live stream.
The session host, Fatima, head of HR,
kicks off the orientation.
To get started, she'll see where everyone's tuning in from.
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Myra's excited to see how global the company is, with new hires
joining from every continent.
Additionally, new hires often have a lot of questions,
so Fatima uses the Q&A feature to let them add questions
during the session.
People have already asked a couple of questions,
and Myra will upload the questions
she's most interested in.
She also adds a question to better understand
how Cymbal will help new hires thrive in a hybrid workplace.
At previous jobs, Myra often found that live streamed events
weren't the most engaging.
And it was really challenging to feel connected
to the other attendees.
But here, polling and Q&A helped her
get to know fellow new hires and Cymbal a bit better.
And Myra is excited to continue her onboarding journey.
So Myra made it through a first orientation,
and she actually had fun.
Now she can start creating her onboarding plan.
What will the next few weeks hold for Myra, I wonder?
Thankfully, it's not going to be too difficult
for her to figure out, since Slides makes
it easy to quickly get started.
There are also lots of other slides she can choose from,
which will definitely save time on future projects.
She wants this plan to be in solid shape
before the team meeting.
First impressions are important, right?
Plus, it'll be helpful to get advice
from her team members who have been in her shoes before.
Myra finalizes her slide and has a bit of time before the team
meeting.
So she decides to take her dog, Scout, to the neighborhood dog
park.
While Scout plays with his dog park crew,
Myra sits down to review her slide on her phone.
Good thing-- she caught a tiny typo.
A ping arrives over chat and it's
from Sarah, the store associate that
sent her that project doc for the Singapore store opening
earlier.
Sarah was busy working with customers at the time,
but now she has time to connect.
It'll be good for them to find time
to talk face to face later in the week,
since they'll be working closely with one another
over the next few months.
Myra is able to quickly and easily add this meeting
to both of their calendars directly on her mobile device.
And there's even a suggested title and time slot that
works for both Myra and Sarah.
At Myra's previous company, store associates
didn't have access to the same technology she did,
which made it hard to get customer insights
and build relationships with them.
Connecting with Sarah has been much easier so far.
Back from the park, Myra is feeling refreshed and relaxed
after a little outdoor time.
Perfect, since she's about to introduce herself
to her new project management team for the first time.
She's happy to see that the edit she
made to her onboarding slide on her phone
carried over to her laptop.
Let the meeting begin.
Like Amit suggested earlier, she'll
share her onboarding slide in the meeting
and gather feedback from her peers.
Myra is a little nervous, but she's got this.
Since they'll be working on the content together,
the whole team can join the meeting directly
in Slides, which makes it easy to connect and collaborate
with all of her new colleagues in one place.
Myra walks the team through her onboarding plan
and can easily make changes in real time,
based on the feedback from the meeting.
Her teammates are also able to add comments directly
to her slide, which Myra can address after the meeting.
That was a success.
Scout even barked during the middle of it,
and her new teammates didn't hear a peep,
thanks to the magic of noise cancellation.
So it's official.
Myra's first day is done.
And may I just say, she did an amazing job, with a little help
from Google Workspace.
Google Workspace brings together the Google Apps
you use every day--
Gmail, Docs, Meet, and more.
This integrated experience collapses
the boundaries between applications
to transform collaboration across your organization.
Today, you saw how Google Workspace
is a modern, all-in-one solution that helps teams of all sizes
connect, create, and collaborate in a hybrid workplace.
Thank you so much for joining me today.
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