How BY Venture Partners Used SoWork to Increase Productivity

The Problem

Navigating efficiency challenges and keeping productivity high 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 4 different countries and multiple time zones.

BY 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 around to get unblocked. Collaborating was too hard, and work was suffering.

Our productivity was really suffering. We needed a tool to eliminate the collaboration challenges we were facing.

The Solution

BY found SoWork. They were drawn to SoWork's ability to eliminate their biggest time-wasters.

No more overloaded calendars, lost links, waiting a week to connect with someone, or having unnecessary catch-up meetings.

Instead, just work beside each other and walk over to collaborate. Simple.

Most apps add to your plate. They ask your team to give more time to yet another tool. BY found SoWork's approach refreshing. Instead of asking the team to do more, their team was doing less because SoWork 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 Uses SoWork

BY logs into their SoWork office daily. They use status, availability, and work hours to communicate when they're free - a game-changer 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 Benefits

Productivity Tools

SoWork's quick, spontaneous communication is what got BY's productivity back on track. But it was SoWork's productivity tools that revolutionized what the team could accomplish each week.

Meeting recordings, AI-generated summaries, action items automatically sent to their task management tools, dual screenshare and annotation, analytics and insights. The team was now unblocked to collaborate and armed with the best productivity tools on the market.

Customization

Guy and his team love the buzzing atmosphere of their SoWork Office. The new social spaces brought teammates together during break times. The themed meeting zones kept everyone in the loop about what was happening. Personalizing desks gave his team an opportunity to share and connect with each other.

Conclusion

SoWork makes collaborating so easy.

And then you layer on the productivity tools like AI summaries. The customization to facilitate natural signaling of what's happening around the office. The thoughtful mobile app so you always feel connected...

I don't know how a remote team can work well anywhere else.

By leveraging SoWork, BY was able to recreate the spontaneity and camaraderie of the physical office. Work is unblocked quickly, unnecessary meetings are gone, and the team is performing better than ever before.