Google’s Sebastien Marotte: Social tools could hold the key to increased collaboration and a more productive way of doing business.

There is no clear distinction between collaboration and social tools in the workplace are an evolution of the collaborative technology that has been transforming working practices over the past few years.We found a huge proportion of high-growth businesses (81%) are using social tools to facilitate expansion and improve the ways in which teams collaborate and share knowledge. And it is worth noting that this is across all industries and sectors. 

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