[LINK] mobile workstyles

[stephen at melbpc.org.au]

> PM,
> 
> > >> Two, I've been taken by the conversation about telework, about the
> > >> changing nature of workplaces, about what that can do for workplace
> > >> productivity, workplace participation, for the options and choices
> > >> that working people want. For the shape of our cities & our nation,
> > >> where people can live, and still do the work that they want to do. 
> >
>
> The office of the future is shrinking: Citrix Systems
> Claims office space will decrease by a fifth by 2020
> 
> By Hafizah Osman (ARN) 05 October, 2012 11:30
> www.arnnet.com.au/article/438325/office_future_shrinking_citrix_systems/


Metinks the way forward will be cloud-collaboration .. 


"Cloud collaboration is an efficient way to leverage the power of the 
cloud to deliver collaboration applications to your users. Freeing IT 
staff for other initiatives, it enables you to support collaboration 
services without compromising security, flexibility, and application 
functionality. And, you can fund this effort as an operating expense 
rather than a capital expense."


> By 2020 organisations will reduce office space by at least 15 per cent, 
> according to mobile and Cloud technology vendor, Citrix Systems. 
> 
> It conducted a new study, the Citrix Workplace of the Future report, 
> which polled 1900 senior IT decision-makers across 19 countries in 
> Europe, the Americas and Asia-Pacific. 
> 
> The findings revealed the office of the future is shrinking, with 
> Australian offices expected to provide less than 7 desks for every 10 
> office workers in 2020 – a workspace reduction of almost 15 per cent.
>
> And each person is expected to access the corporate IT network from an 
> average of six different computing devices.
> 
> According to the company, the widespread consumer adoption of computing 
> technologies such as smartphones, laptops and tablets in the workplace 
> and the ability to access corporate applications, data & services from 
> outside the traditional office is lending itself to fewer office based 
> employees.
> 
> The study showed Australia is a leader in mobile workstyles, with
> 37 per cent of organisations, as compared to 24 per cent globally,
> having already fully adopted mobile workstyles. 
> 
> By the middle of 2014, 86 per cent of Australian organisations are 
> planning to have embraced mobile workstyles. 
> 
> “Organisations are encouraging people to operate outside of the 
> traditional workplace on their own personal devices to improve the 
> bottom line – by making the organisation more responsive, improving
> productivity and reducing the cost of real estate and device
> management,” Citrix Systems integrated marketing and strategy vice
> president, Mick Hollison, said.
> 
> Australia is also leading Asia-Pacific and the global average when it 
> comes to the technical capability to support mobile workstyles for the 
> entire organisation (72 per cent for Australia, 57 per cent average in 
> Asia-Pacific and 61 per cent global average). 
> 
> Respondents said the biggest benefit that Australian organisations are 
> seeing from implementing mobile workstyles is a more agile, flexible 
> workplace (81 per cent), with exactly half of organisations citing 
> reductions in the cost of real estate as a key benefit. 
> 
> “The technology to enable the workplace of the future is already 
> available and proven, and plans for workplace redesign can easily be
> in place. The real winners will be those that get the people management 
> and culture right, to empower the workforce of the future,” Hollison
> said.


Cheers,
Stephen