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We've had JamBoards with GSuite for a while. They're cool to play with, but once the novelty wears off no one really seems to use them any more and they collect dust in the corner of the meeting rooms.

Anyone actually using these things frequently, or see anyone else actually use them?

I've never seen any meetings where people just draw out pictures of rabbits or trivially simple flow-charts and call it day...

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I had them for a few months -- for most of my meetings they weren't needed, but anytime you have a "creative" meeting with remote participants, they're a godsend.

So it's whenever you're doing brainstorming (people can send post-it notes to it directly from their phone), organizing brainstorms into categories, keeping track of pros/cons, etc... then it turns out to be pure magic. Being able to move whole sections of a whiteboard around is incredible too.

Yea, we have the hubs at our office and use this. It’s great for collaborative diagramming.

Ian from Microsoft Whiteboard here. The other thing I'll note is we see a general trend of most information workers jobs in the next few years calling for more creative work, so the need for these type of solutions will continue to grow--even if it doesn't seem vital in your role today, you may be surprised to look back at how your job's day-to-day has changed 5 years from now.

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