that transform our work and our lives just as it was the lifeline to connectivity and collaboration for so many of us during lockdown and remote work and lenovo will continue to push the envelope of possibility through firsttomarket technologies based on user needs and insights these include harnessing the great potential of emerging technologies such as computer vision ai cybersecurity smart collaboration endtoend asaservice solutionsand the pc will become an integral part of the metaversewell see more technology products solutions and services designed for the employee experience where the office will serve as a destination for team collaboration while protecting the sense of personal space people have experienced working from home new office designs and audiovideo technology will pave the way for flexible meeting setups and new ways to build social connectionswe believe metaverses ar has the immense potential to create immersive workspaces for employees no matter where they are thats why weve launched new innovations such as the thinkreality a3 ar smart glasses that create interactive employee training experiences and multiscreen environments for enhanced productivity and privacydata shows that a more disperse workforce is more attractive to hackers making endpoints the new security perimeter and the vector of choice for infiltrating the deeper network as devices are increasingly targeted by hackers automation and industry collaboration are critical to combating threats faster at scale any specific learnings from lenovos india businessthe remote revolution of working and learning from home has accelerated an entire group of new customers in india who for the first time have access to the power of technology and the potential that it brings according to a recent lenovo survey 60 percent of knowledge worker respondents in india actually prefer to work from home with 75 percent of respondents in india willing to even take a pay cut if it means being able to work from anywhere thats the highest rate across all 10 major markets we surveyed around the world so the 45 percent increase in indias 2021 pc demand that were seeing from a canalys india report is in large part due to the new remote work needs over the past year weve seen a lot of traction from customers in india on lenovos smarter pcs including aibased features like facial recognition zero touch login and security with new business models like daas a much broader range of customers in india than ever before can now experience and benefit from our smarter technologywith chromebooks getting more traction will we see a different strategy from lenovo for the categorythe chromebook business is expanding and represents a significant market for lenovos intelligent devices group to address this growing market enhance our innovation and optimize what we do we have recently formed a centralized dedicated chromebook business unit that integrates across the consumer education and b2b segmentsthis change is an integral part of idgs longterm strategy to bring together our chrome capabilities which delivers several advantages including improved rd capabilities optimized operational efficiencies and enabling