Dubai, UAE – Chalhoub Group, the leading partner for luxury across the Middle East, has announced that it will implement remote working solutions by leveraging platforms such as Microsoft Teams to ensure business continuity across its operations and functions. The move will enhance communication within territories and departments and across the group’s partners and suppliers.

“We are taking all the required measures to ensure health and safety of our employees while fostering an environment to guarantee best servicing capabilities to our customer during these challenging times.” Said Joe Hobeika, regional manager for IT services at Chalhoub Group. “With our commitment to build successful brand stories, we believe that technology play an important role during these times and will continue to transform to help improving customer experience- therefore increase loyalty. By leveraging platforms like Microsoft Teams, we are taking a leap forward in ensuring the well-being of our workforce and creating the future workplace that keeps our people and processes together.”

Chalhoub Group leveraged Microsoft Teams, which is working as a collaboration tool that empowers Chalhoub’s employees to chat, meet, call, and engage seamlessly in one place. Chalhoub Group are amongst companies that are frontrunners in moving to remote work by adopting Teams that delivers a complete, intelligent, and secure workplace solution to empower people in achieving more together.

“We are working with the public and private entities to further enhance remote working in a way to achieve the objective of business as usual without any hindrances,” said Lance Thorp, Retail Director Microsoft UAE. “The Microsoft Teams application serves ways to better communicate and collaborate from anywhere to widen the ideation pipeline and deliver better experiences. As companies like Chalhoub Group are moving to remote work, we are committed to empower their workforce with tools to stay connected and become a true modern workplace that can achieve more.”

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Hassan Al Shouli , Microsoft MEA
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M: +971 50 934 0133
Husain Gandhi, ProGlobal Media
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