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- Google made a significant change to its suite of productivity apps for business: G Suite is now called Google Workspace and comes with additional features.
- Google Workspace will include the same apps G Suite users use for work, with improvements tailored to the new working from home environment that the novel coronavirus pandemic forced on the world.
- Aside from the Workspace rebrand, Google announced additional improvements, including new app logos, a new UI, and improved support for real-time collaboration.
The wide variety of online tools make working from home a lot easier than it sounds. The pandemic didn’t invent the concept, and plenty of people have been doing it for years. But the novel coronavirus health crisis forced governments to impose several measures that can curb the spread of the illness. Social distancing was one of them, which escalated to full lockdowns in the pandemic's early months. Millions of people lost their jobs in the process, but the lucky ones got to transition from the office to working from home. That’s the new reality for millions of people, and it’s not necessarily a better experience. Working from home comes with all the home and family-related challenges.
Google wants to help its G Suite customers manage working from home better with its productivity apps and increase productivity. And Google just announced a few major changes to its productivity apps, including a welcome rebrand.
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Google just made a huge change to Gmail and the entire G Suite originally appeared on BGR.com on Tue, 6 Oct 2020 at 06:50:58 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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