INTELLIGENT BRANDS // Mobile Technology
How Wi-Fi connectivity can create
the smart workplace
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Wi-Fi connectivity and
mobile technology
can have a massively
positive impact on the
workplace. Morten Illum,
EMEA Vice President
at Aruba, a Hewlett
Packard Enterprise
company, argues that
if the workplace of the
future is smart, as well as
connected, it can become
a much more personalised
environment for the
workers operating in it.
R
ecent research by Google supports
a point I have been discussing with
customers for many months now;
there is no real difference between the user
experience and the employee experience
any more.
What that means is, if you expect to
schedule your Sunday with your mobile
phone calendar, upload photos to cloud
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storage and connect with people using
applications, you will expect to do pretty
much the same thing on Monday, when you
arrive at the office.
In 2018, many of us don’t feel efficient
unless we’re able to access applications
on demand, and this applies to our work
as much as our personal lives. Given we
spend as much time in our offices as we
do at home, we have to consider how the
workplace can become better equipped to
meet our daily expectations.
Designing the workplace to better
incorporate technology is not about being
futuristic. It’s about meeting the minimum
requirements that users now have. A
business that does not consider how to
improve its workplace design to suit our daily
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