To make desktop-work more collaborative, and fit different personalities / attitudes / work-modes, Multiuser desktop environment where everyone controls widgets, and there is one "host" user for a widget who can delegate.
"Inverted Slack / Zoom / IDE" ... turned inside out so they support attaching multiple simultaneous editors, and attaching apps to each other to form ad-hoc "desktops".
This has been done over the years, in different forms. And it is a lot of fun, speaking from personal experience. And the market need was not there, for a business to be built on this, or a standard, until perhaps now because we're forced to be separate for at least four more months.
Video conversations for the talkative, in a mutable / auto-transcribed, resizable / mutable widget. Polls for those who just "need a decision", where additional "poll options" can be added by others. Text chats for asynchronous discussions. App-scoped shared copy-paste-buffers. Live people Directories showing which apps your colleagues are "in" now, groups of which can be collected into ad-hoc dynamic work-desktops, to focus on a task.
"Inverted Slack / Zoom / IDE" ... turned inside out so they support attaching multiple simultaneous editors, and attaching apps to each other to form ad-hoc "desktops".
This has been done over the years, in different forms. And it is a lot of fun, speaking from personal experience. And the market need was not there, for a business to be built on this, or a standard, until perhaps now because we're forced to be separate for at least four more months.
Video conversations for the talkative, in a mutable / auto-transcribed, resizable / mutable widget. Polls for those who just "need a decision", where additional "poll options" can be added by others. Text chats for asynchronous discussions. App-scoped shared copy-paste-buffers. Live people Directories showing which apps your colleagues are "in" now, groups of which can be collected into ad-hoc dynamic work-desktops, to focus on a task.