

Live captions and translations in Google Meet will also play a crucial role in keeping people connected as they work together in distributed teams. Smart chips will come to Sheets in the coming months. From web or mobile, your collaborators can then quickly skim associated meetings and people or preview linked documents, all without changing tabs or contexts. To insert smart chips into your work, simply type to see a list of recommended people, files, and meetings. And starting today, we’re introducing new smart chips in Docs for recommended files and meetings. New interactive building blocks-smart chips, templates, and checklists-will connect people, content, and events into one seamless experience.Īlready available, when you mention a person in a document, a smart chip shows you additional information like the person’s location, job title, and contact information. How do teams stay focused and connected as they work together, regardless of where people are located? With smart canvas, we’re building deeper connections across Google Workspace to transform collaboration anywhere it happens.įor example, we’re taking something that people already use every open up new, powerful collaboration capabilities. The evolving hybrid work model gives new urgency to existing collaboration challenges. Making collaboration more flexible and helpful For over a decade now, we’ve been pushing documents away from being just digital pieces of paper and toward collaborative, linked content inspired by the web. They enabled anytime, anywhere teamwork-a stark contrast to the legacy tools that were designed for an era of individual work on office desktops. When we launched Google Docs and Sheets 15 years ago, these apps introduced the world to a new way of working. With smart canvas, we’re bringing the content and connections that transform collaboration into a richer, better experience in Google Workspace. Specifically, we're enhancing the apps that hundreds of millions of people use every day-like Docs, Sheets, and Slides-to make them even more flexible, interactive, and intelligent. Between now and the end of the year, we’re rolling out innovations that make it easier for people to stay connected, focus their time and attention, and transform their ideas into impact. As part of our mission to build the future of work, we’re addressing these challenges in Google Workspace.Īs we announced today at I/O, we’re launching smart canvas-a new product experience that delivers the next evolution of collaboration for Google Workspace. Throughout the pandemic, millions of employees bridged the physical distances with their colleagues by making themselves more available, joining a deluge of virtual meetings, and leaning into a dizzying array of tools and applications. After more than a year of remote collaboration, many people are showing signs of digital fatigue.
