How BY Venture Partners Used SoWork to Increase Productivity
The Problem
Navigating efficiency challenges and staying connected hasn’t been easy for Guy Labaki and his team. Guy is an analyst at BY Venture Partners. They operate as a company distributed across four different countries and multiple time zones.
BY Venture tried the usual meeting tools like Zoom and Microsoft Teams, but productivity was a real challenge.
Employees wrangled overloaded calendars, endless meeting links, tricky timezone coordination, and a lot of waiting to get unblocked. Collaborating was too hard, and work was suffering.
We needed a tool to eliminate the collaboration complexity we were facing. It was killing our productivity.
The Solution
BY found SoWork. They were drawn to SoWork's ability to eliminate their biggest time-wasters.
No more overloaded calendars, waiting a week to connect with someone, sending links, or not knowing what meetings were already taking place.
Instead, just work beside each other and walk over to collaborate. Simple.
Most apps add to your plate. They ask your team to do more stuff. BY found SoWork's approach refreshing. Instead of asking the team to do more, it was eliminating the obstacles in their path.
All they had to do was log in and work beside each other. SoWork would handle the rest, making collaboration simple and easy.
How BY Venture Partners Uses SoWork
BY logs into their SoWork office daily. They use status, availability, and work hours to communicate when they're free, which is extra helpful given how distributed their team is.
Their office is organized by purpose to make collaboration even easier. Meeting zones, deep work spots, brainstorming corners, and game areas show employees what everyone is up to and make it easy to join in.
SoWork makes collaborating so easy.
And then you layer on the productivity tools like AI summaries, or the customization to facilitate natural signaling of what's happening around the office, or the mobile app so you always feel connected...
I don't know how you work anywhere else as a remote team.
SoWork Benefits
Productivity Tools
Beyond quick, spontaneous communication, SoWork has tons of productivity and meeting tools, each making BY’s life easier.
Meeting recordings, meeting summaries, action item generation, the ability to signal your status/availability to others, and much more.
The availability and status features help improve focus and concentration. Guy’s team can set themselves as “Unavailable”, and can easily dive into periods of deep work where needed. This leads to higher quality work output and faster task completion times.
The meeting summaries and action items are produced by SoWork’s own Sophia Bot, a smart, AI Office Assistant that takes work off your plate. These critical tools help drive leaps in BY’s innovation, efficiency, and profits.
SoWork also provides data-driven insights to Premium teams, showcasing important information on employee interactions and engagement. By analyzing these insights, BY can identify trends, patterns, and areas for improvement, allowing them to continuously optimize their workflows.
Cohesion and Customizations
Guy and his team love the buzzing atmosphere of their SoWork Office. Social spaces promoted employee well-being and camaraderie among team members. Having room for this decreased feelings of isolation they had before. This buzzing environment has major benefits to team productivity too. Teammates are able to see who’s in the room, create and fully customize their own desks/work areas (that are completely tailored to their preferences and workflow), and use whiteboards and other collaborative tools together.
Conclusion
It really feels like something special is being built here. We’re really excited to see what you do next.
Guy and his team transformed the way they worked together.
By leveraging SoWork, BY was able to recreate the spontaneity and camaraderie of the physical office. They collaborate more and work more efficiently. Because of this, productivity and employee satisfaction grew.
