Your Human Resources department should be at the forefront of your efforts to ensure that your employees are always first. You can attract top talent to your company by using technology in this way. You can retain more talent by encouraging innovation and learning in your company. This could imply that artificial intelligence will be used in HR to hire and recruit people. Artificial intelligence is now a reality in HR, as technology plays a growing role in recruiting and maintaining talent.

Social distance tracing and tracking – Helping employers monitor and implement social distance guidelines. Use cases include alerting employees through Bluetooth-enabled devices if they are too close to one another for an extended period of time, or leveraging video analytics to determine face mask usage in required areas. Touchless entry – Using a hygienic approach for employees to securely and smoothly enter a location without touching door handles and other points of entry. The solution uses facial recognition for contactless access, multi-factor access-control and identity verification. Fever detection – Identifying individuals with elevated body temperatures using thermal cameras, machine learning and video analytics to proactively alert employees and staff to keep workers safe and reduce the risk of spreading the virus.

We're already aware that AI is transforming the IT help desk. The recent global pandemic, however, calls new attention to AI's capabilities. As health concerns continue to spread, more enterprises are implementing remote work. This places IT under increased pressure to support remote workers. Here is where AI steps in to support companies through these evolving challenges.

We are currently seeing an unprecedented global scenario as governments, institutions, and businesses are encouraging entire populations to isolate themselves in response to the spread of COVID-19 (novel coronavirus 2019). While for most businesses, the short-term uncertainty is unnerving, many leaders are viewing this as a litmus test to analyze their remote workforce productivity and effectiveness. Thanks to advances in technology like video-enabled web conferencing and lightning-fast internet speeds, working from remote locations has grown increasingly popular for companies with larger workforces. B2B organizations that employ "knowledge workers" tend to have more lenient practices and more flexible work arrangements--from flextime to remote accommodations. Examples include: software programmers, physicians, pharmacists, architects, engineers, scientists, marketers, sales professionals, design thinkers, accountants, lawyers, and academics.

Today's workforce has changed significantly in the past decade. More and more businesses are hiring remote employees, freelance employees, part-time employees in addition to full-time in-office employees to help with an ever-expanding workload. It is imperative that as the workplace changes, we learn to collaborate on a higher level. Collaboration technology trends are making that possible. It was found that innovative business collaboration techniques can improve your company's productivity by 20-30 percent.