Shamillah Bankiya
Building the future enterprise digital workspace
5th January 2021
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By Shamillah Bankiya

Digital workspaces are now commonplace in enterprises around the world, and those businesses are having to work to keep employees in touch, engaged and productive. Our needs around communicating with colleagues, sharing and collaborating on work, and getting things done digitally, wherever we are, continue to grow. Microsoft’s Satya Nadella said to the FT this week that …
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