How Technology Is Impacting Organizations And Workplaces
In an ever-increasing digital world where the boundaries between personal and professional lives are blurring, people’s expectations surrounding the way they can stay informed, act upon the information they receive and communicate with others is changing.
Expectations of where, when and how people work are changing, and by 2020, 40 percent of working populations will be generation Y and expect intuitive and innovative ways of working (intelligence group).
Digital technology has now reached a point in its evolution where the opportunity to work flexibly irrespective of location, or even time zone, is creating a social revolution in the way that people perceive their working lives.
The meteoric rise of consumer-focused technology such as smart devices, app stores, and social networks is also fuelling an impatience for the workplace place to catch up. However, many organizations are still highly dependent upon manual processes and aging legacy technology that stifles creativity and productivity. After all, it is employees who ultimately deliver business outcomes and therefore employers need to consider how they can best enable their employees’ satisfaction and productivity while in the office and while outside of it.
With digital, the traditional workplace is changing, only those organizations that can provide a flexible, engaging workplace – wherever it may be – will attract and keep the highest quality employees. Technology alone is not the answer; social enterprise implementation is. The modern generation of an employee simply expects their workplace to extend anywhere for use anytime and be as intuitive as their personal devices. The divisions between the office and home, leisure, and work are all blurring such that there is no longer a clear definition of ‘a normal working day’. Users need a Digital workplace that fits with their rapidly changing and individual needs.
The Digital Workplace is a flexible, secure, workplace solution available anytime on any device with an Internet connection. It transforms and simplifies how user users access data, applications, and services, enabling greater collaboration and supports new workstyles.
The minute you disconnect employees from their office desks, you started a revolution. Motivation and productivity are now heavily influenced by the qualities of the digital workplace you provide. With digital technologies like cloud, mobile, it offers instant control over accounts and secures mobile access to a complete range of business applications and services.
When considering DWP, it is critical to consider the intersection of People, Places, and Platforms to drive efficiency within the working environment. These combinations of people, places, and platforms will help enterprises to derive the following value.
Within Atos and Atos customers, digital technology leveraged covers the 360-degree view of DWP. In it's Digital Workplace Portfolio, Atos provides six primary hubs that combine leading technologies such as end-user analytics, journey analytics, smart dashboards, virtual assistant, evergreen applications, and collaboration tools such as the O365 suite—all integrated and customizable to customer’s requirements.
