Google is also steadily updating Workspace during the epidemic. At the recent Google Cloud Next event, the company announced that it would further enhance the productivity suite to meet the hybrid office needs of contemporary users. Google has announced many improvements, such as the API @ tag, that can extract information from third-party applications into your Google Doc.

Workspace faces competition from productivity suites such as Microsoft Teams, Slack and even Zoom Team Chat. To this end, Google announced new Google Chat features and released several updated windows, including the message thread added later this month. Once Google Chat allows users to create custom emojis later this year, it will also add fun to its text conversations.

Google plans to launch a "broadcast-only" space early next year so leaders can release one-to-many announcements without too many settings or ensuring everyone's microphone is silent.
Google Meet and Chat will also get their own APIs early next year, which will allow other applications to create and start meetings in Meet and initiate messages in Chat. Task Manager app Asana and employee software LumApps are the first to add these features.
Google Chat is now integrated into the Google Workspace suite, adding additional data loss prevention capabilities. Gmail, Drive, Docs, Sheet and Slides are already available for security features. It can help "prevent sensitive information leakage" by tagging potential information before an employee clicks to send a message. It is now available for Enterprise Standard, Enterprise Plus, Education Standard and Education Plus accounts.