Gmail for G Suite: all the 2020 news

On the occasion of Google Cloud Next, news from Mountain View arrives on what is the very concept of Gmail for G Suite. In fact, these are novelties that go well beyond the simple evolution of the mailbox: in fact, the set of additions introduced, something much wider, ideally conceivable as a real virtual workplace.


That this was the fate of the G Suite seems obvious, but it is undeniable that all this has been accelerated not only by the international lockdown, but also by the likely perpetration of the emergency in the coming months. In short: Google could no longer wait, because this is the moment when smart working will enter homes all over the world and more and more users (and more and more companies) will have to choose who to entrust their communications with.

Gmail for G Suite, Chat, Meet, Rooms

And suddenly what was a suite of detached elements becomes an organic and integrated offer, where the mix between the various services signed by Google becomes the value additional of the whole package. Gmail is no longer just the webmail from which to send written and asynchronous messages, but also the reference point for your contacts, a starting point for a meeting and much more.

“A better home for the work ", as Google describes it:



We are announcing something on which we have worked since when I arrived at Google last year: a new integrated workspace, which is designed to bring together all the key components of communication and collaboration in a single surface that was not only put these ingredients on the same display, but also to create something greater than the simple sum of the parts

Javier Sölter, G Suite VP

there is only the sum between Gmail, Meet , Room and Chat , in short, the value lies more in the integration between the individual parts, in the possibility of exploiting them jointly on the basis of their own need to really move the center of gravity of the collaboration on the cloud . It's not important the physical location of the office: what counts is not the tool that you decide to use to tap into this collective space to pursue the objective of maximum productivity possible.

all of this will add new features such as new indications of status (“ Out of Office ” or “ do Not disturb“), or the ability to assign tasks to the collaborators and you have the framework of some that is more of a suite: the new G Suite is the sum of the walls, the furniture, the organization and climate of the office, a concept that evolved more and more of the same for virtualizzarne so much the software as the collaborative dynamics. As a point of arrival, on the basis of what has been done up to now, but nothing less than a point of departure, on the basis of that that will still be possible to build on these new foundations.