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The future of the workplace is digital:
HERE’S HOW TO NAIL IT
With vaccination campaigns rolling out, lockdowns lifting and borders opening, it seems the global economy is slowly getting back in gear. But that doesn’t mean that things are going back to the old normal – especially when it comes to the workplace. BY SANDER BARENS, CHIEF COMMERCIAL OFFICER, EXPEREO IF WE GO BACK 20 odd years, the connectivity aspect of the office environment was pretty straightforward. Companies would have their network spread across a couple of HQs; applications would be hosted in on-site servers; and staff would be connected via the same link. Today, however, end-users are everywhere. They’ve gone out of what once was a controlled network environment into multiple locations, creating what we call the ‘digital workplace’.
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The digital workplace isn’t a “place”. It’s in the connections between locations, people and tools that allow for seamless collaboration across all the different applications used by the organization. The tools need some very specific qualities as to what they do and how they work together. But the people, you’ve already got. The challenge is to make sure that there is proactive support for the whole adoption of this new, digital way of working. This involves non-technical aspects such as management practices, organizational processes and team responsibilities. Once that’s been taken care of, leaders should assess how well positioned they are to take advantage of everything that collaboration offers – that’s when the right tools come into play.
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