Digital Systems for the Connected Workplace

I work from home. I have people I live with that like to interrupt for what ever reason. This has been lovely.

They can see if I'm in a meeting, busy, or available, and they've been pretty good with the light. It has worked well with MS Teams. I switched to manual because I think company IT hosed something up and it stopped working one day.

I'm sure I could get it working again, but I haven't bothered. I have less interruptions, so it was worth it for me.

I love the Embrava Blynclight and have it setting up on top of my cubicle wall so anyone in the whole office can see it.

I often use noise cancelling headphones at my desk just to focus, even when I'm not in a meeting, and my coworkers constantly come up behind and try to look at all of my 3 screens to see if I'm in a meeting, or just drowning out the background noise, before trying to get my attention.

Now I have them trained that if the light is green, headphones or not, they can go ahead and talk to me, but if the indicator is red, then I'm on a call. I use MS teams, and so far the integration is good.

I'm using this on a Macbook Pro provided by my employer with Zoom and Teams. I work from home full time and my home office is in a corner of the living room.

It's completely reasonable for kids to come roaring in after school, grab a snack, talk loudly, be kids. With this light, they see that dad is either available or in a meeting (and needs the noise to be tamped down for a bit).

I work hybrid, so I would often have the problem where my kids or wife would bust into my office, not knowing I was on a meeting or presenting. This light has completely solved that issue for me. I bought a separate USB-micro cord to plug in the light to the computer and used wire channel to hide the cord. The software is super user friendly, but I just let it automatically run based on my Teams status 99% of the time. The program allows you to "set it and forget it". It works perfectly, allowing for extremely specific controls over the light and color based on when you're in a call, busy, presenting, set to busy, do not disturb, away, available, etc. This has allowed me to set specific colors ), brightness, and flashing which my family understands as I can knock, I can enter, or I need to steer clear. If you have a home office and a family that's constantly interrupting at inconvenient times I strongly recommend this product. It's 100% worth the money.