{"id":14243,"date":"2017-01-16T07:51:48","date_gmt":"2017-01-16T07:51:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/?p=14243"},"modified":"2017-01-16T07:51:48","modified_gmt":"2017-01-16T07:51:48","slug":"mobility-trends-and-empowering-the-future-genmobile-workforce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/2017\/01\/16\/mobility-trends-and-empowering-the-future-genmobile-workforce\/","title":{"rendered":"Mobility trends and empowering the future #GenMobile workforce"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The traditional boundaries that existed between life and work have been redrawn forever, primarily due to the \u2018consumerisation of IT\u2019 trend, but also the flexibility this has afforded business and employees alike. Emails no longer pile up, IM\u2019s are answered in seconds and applications are being optimised for mobile users on the go, writes\u00a0<em>Ammar Enaya, Regional Director, HPE Aruba, Middle East &amp; Turkey.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">What\u2019s less well established is the extent of mobility\u2019s benefits on businesses of today. At Aruba we\u2019re often asked questions seeking to quantify these improvements: How much more productive is my workforce? What\u2019s the impact of mobility on hiring and retention? Are mobility benefits distributed equally across workers of all ages?<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Which is why we recently conducted a global workforce mobility study with the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU). It provided actionable insights into the benefits of investing in mobile-optimization technologies that improve employee engagement and drive business outcomes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>GenMobile is an ageless demographic<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">First, the study debunked the common misconception that Millennials benefit the most by being mobility-enabled. It\u2019s simply not true.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Instead, the research shows workers across the age spectrum \u2013 from 18-65 \u2013 have exceptionally similar perspectives around the importance of mobility and mobile-optimized workplaces.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Among the findings: 100% of employees own a smartphone, use an employer-issued smartphone or both.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">In other words, all employees are now GenMobile, which is an ageless demographic best described by an affinity for mobile devices rather than birth year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">For decision-makers considering which technologies impact their business, the implications of this GenMobile finding can\u2019t be overstated. Every employee is mobility-enabled, and whether or not a business take advantage of this has a direct impact on business performance.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Clearly, these findings indicate that optimizing workplace mobility is now a strategic imperative for corporate success.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>Mobile-optimised goes beyond Wi-Fi<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Next, it\u2019s critical to understand that optimising workplace mobility goes beyond providing a high-performance Wi-Fi. It\u2019s about taking the tools that empower the creative and collaborative spirit found everywhere on university campuses, which is a fundamental requirement for any enterprise to be innovative, and making them widely available at your organisation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">For example, our study showed leading-edge mobilizers are twice as good at delivering work flexibility and collaboration tools, such as Skype for Business, which allow for seamlessly turning a hallway conversation into a productive group activity.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">They are also three times better at supporting anywhere, anytime workspace designs, like hot desking. Such workspaces provide employees with options to interact with whoever is appropriate on a given day or for a given project.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Mobile-optimised companies demonstrate other competitive advantages, some of which include:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul class=\"ul1\">\n<li class=\"li1\"><span class=\"s1\">1.5 times better at work\/life balance.<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\"><span class=\"s1\">2.5 times better at fostering innovation and creativity.<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\"><span class=\"s1\">More than twice as good at getting the most from their employees.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>Recovering 320 hours, per person, annually<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">So what does the survey say about the productivity gains companies can expect from a robust mobile environment? Quite a lot.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">At mobility-optimised companies, projects that typically take an individual eight hours to complete are done in about seven. That\u2019s a net gain of approximately an hour per person, or 16%, regardless of organisation size, type or region.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">To put this in perspective, 16% of productivity regained per eight-hour workday adds up to about 320 hours per year, taking standard holidays into consideration. That\u2019s like realising over eight extra weeks of output, per employee.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">At scale, this benefit is tremendous. For a global organization with 10,000 employees, that\u2019s 3.2 million hours of productivity recovered annually, or 80,000 weeks.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>Effects on attracting and retaining top talent<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Beyond productivity, when we speak to employers we commonly hear about the importance of attracting and retaining the right talent to drive innovation. In primary markets, competition is particularly fierce. Some businesses tell us they chronically struggle to compete for the best employees.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Insights from our study show why. Overall, companies at the mobility forefront are three times better at attracting workers. They also enjoy higher retention rates, reporting 21% greater employee loyalty.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">From an employee perspective, a quarter of all workers (25%) say robust mobility is the primary factor for accepting a job.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">This means engaging the best talent requires optimizing mobility. Equally, limiting mobility means constraining \u2013 or even alienating \u2013 existing workers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>The bottom line<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Despite the emphasis on creating \u201cmobile-first\u201d workplaces, our research suggests only about 11% of all companies are mobile-optimised. In contrast 50% of organisations were judged to be behind the curve in mobility.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">For mobility leaders, this means ongoing investments are needed to stay ahead of the pack. Adopting new innovations and maximizing existing systems are equally important.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">All other companies stand to gain considerable advantage by changing approach. With careful and strategic mobility-enhancing investments, there lies great opportunities to improve market position relative to competitors.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The traditional boundaries that existed between life and work have been redrawn forever, primarily due to the \u2018consumerisation of IT\u2019 trend, but also the flexibility this has afforded business and employees alike. Emails no longer pile up, IM\u2019s are answered in seconds and applications are being optimised for mobile users on the go, writes\u00a0Ammar Enaya, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":14244,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,106,54],"tags":[82,33,123,1354,76,113],"class_list":["post-14243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-insights","category-mobile","category-research","tag-aruba-networks","tag-byod","tag-genmobile","tag-hpe","tag-mobility","tag-networking-2"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14243\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}