II.
Less Work, More Network
How do you design a workplace
for teams that aren’t there?
We live in a “work anywhere” world. That requires new thinking around how we organise teams, projects and roles, adapting to more automation and wider collaboration. The nine-to-five died long ago – so what are we doing to replace it?
The answer starts in distributed computing: using mobile devices and cloud technology to give employees access to the apps and data they need wherever they are. These long-running trends are strengthening.
Seven stats on “workplace anywhere”.
- 48 per cent of employee-facing IT investments were mobile-focused in 20162
- 67 per cent of all enterprise IT infrastructure and software spending will be for cloud-based offerings by 20203
- 61 per cent of IT workers say they need to access company data on their own devices4
- 91 per cent of firms in Britain have at least one employee working from home5
- 30 per cent of employees feel that their productivity increases when they work away from the office6
- 85 per cent of millennials want to telecommute 100 per cent of the time (and 54 per cent want flexible schedules)7
- 61 per cent of decision-makers say that without enterprise mobile apps, they are at a competitive disadvantage8