Employee work habits are radically diverging from historical patterns. Anywhere–the emergence of ubiquitous connectivity--is changing both where people work and how they collaborate. Remote working is becoming a prerequisite for workers. However, companies have been slow to react, resulting in lower productivity and isolated employees. According to a Yankee Group survey, nearly three-quarters of workers believe allowing employees to work from home benefits the company. In addition, the majority of workers indicates that the ability to work from home is the single most important thing their company could do to increase their productivity. Employees are demanding flexibility, and the companies that fail to react to this trend will be at a severe competitive disadvantage in the war for talent. This presentation covers the workforce of tomorrow–what employees' technological, social and professional needs will be and how to keep them connected. It includes: * The pitfalls of and connectivity solutions for remote working * Framework for mobilizing the workforce * Recommendations for companies

1. The Workforce of Tomorrow
Josh Holbrook, Director
Zeus Kerravala, Senior Vice President
May 27, 2009
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2. Introducing Anywhere IT
• Anywhere IT will be the most Anywhere IT will drive $4 trillion
significant transformation in the market worldwide by 2016
history of enterprise IT
IT impact:
• The network becomes a significant
point of differentiation
• Application development transforms
• Functional support shifts to end-user
communities
• Interfacing with Anywhere IT evolves
beyond the keyboard
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3. The Anywhere Enterprise
Fusion of cloud computing, application mobility and social media will
transform how Anywhere Enterprises interact with customers, partners
and employees
Benefits:
• More rapid, distributed decision making
• Empowering mobile workers and partners at lower cost
• Improving customer service by creating ongoing, more intimate connections with customers
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4. Where people work is constantly evolving
Then Now
Workers say working from home is the single most important improvement their organization
can make to improve their productivity
Source: Yankee Group
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5. The phenomena is not limited to employees—it includes
vendors, partners and other external parties
What percentage of external parties access your internal network every day—three
years ago, today and three years from now
3 years ago 41%
Today 56%
3 years from now 70%
0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80%
Percent of respondents
Those who allow outsiders no access to their internal network shrank from 22% three years
ago to 8% today
n=63
Source: Yankee Group 2009 Enterprise Infrastructure Survey—U.S. Large Enterprise
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6. How people work is undergoing dramatic changes
Breadth of Employee Involvement
Community-
Centric
Collaboration
• Tool: Wikis, blogs
People- • Delivery: Social nets
Centric
Collaboration
• Tool: MS Office apps
Document-Centric • Delivery: E-mail
Collaboration
• Tool: Typewriter
• Delivery: Interoffice mail
1960s–1970s 1980s–1990s 2006 and beyond
Time/Maturation of Collaboration
Source: Yankee Group
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7. Enterprise technology has not evolved fast enough to
support remote working
The following statements refer to productivity and the ability to get your job done.
80% Allowing employees to work from home benefits companies.
54% I would be more productive if I had access to technology I use in my personal life.
42% My personal technology is more advanced than my workplace technology.
0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100%
Percent of Respondents Who Answered “Agree”
and “Strongly Agree”
n=507
Source: Yankee Group, 2008 Blended Lifestyle Survey—U.S. Large Enterprise
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8. Poll 1
Does your company have a
policy that enables you to bring
your own laptop to work?
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9. Poll 2
If you could bring your own
laptop to work, what operating
system (OS) would you use?
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10. There is a price for organizations that don’t evolve with
employees
Employee Top Reasons
“I feel isolated from my colleagues.” for Staying at a Job
Top Two Box Summary
1. Relationships with co-workers
30%
27%
26%
25%
2. Relationship with manager
20%
3. Desirable working hours
Percent of 15%
14%
Respondents 15%
10%
4. Attractive compensation
5%
5. Attractive benefits
0%
Home Field HQ Office Branch n=7,482
Office Workers Office
n=507
Source: Yankee Group, 2008 Blended Lifestyle Survey—U.S. Large Enterprise
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11. Isolation breeds low productivity
Rate your productivity on a scale of 1 to 100
Non-Isolated
78%
Employees
Recapture eight
Isolated
Employees
58% weeks in lost
productivity
0% 15% 30% 45% 60% 75% 90%
Percent Productivity Achieved
Non-isolated employees are:
• 87% more likely to use IM
• 86% more likely to use a corporate Web portal/intranet
n=507
Source: Yankee Group, 2008 Blended Lifestyle Survey—U.S. Large Enterprise
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12. The isolated employee can cost large organizations a
half billion dollars a year
Source: Yankee Group: Silent Killer: How Mobile Workers Sabotage Profitability
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13. The first step to solving the problem is understanding
why remote employees feel isolated
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Source: Yankee Group
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14. There are three types of employee connections that
must be satisfied
Source: Yankee Group
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15. Yankee Group’s five-factor framework for creating a
remote working environment
Source: Yankee Group
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16. Recommendations for effectively enabling a
remote/mobile work force
• Survey your work force
• Segment your work force
• Identify key initiatives in three key business units (HR, facilities and IT) and
piggyback those initiatives to enable remote working
• Make a middle management sandwich
• Use management by objectives for remote workers
• Technology investments should start with IM and intranet services
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17. Additional Resources
• Yankee Group Research Reports:
• The Workforce of Tomorrow by Josh Holbrook
• Silent Killer: How Mobile Workers Sabotage Profitability by Josh Holbrook
• The Future of Work by Josh Holbrook
• Introducing Anywhere IT by Zeus Kerravala
Download at: http://www.yankeegroup.com
• Yankee Group blog:
• On Snow Days and Anywhere Enterprises by Gene Signorini
• Anywhere workers, unite! by Emily Green
Read at: http://blogs.yankeegroup.com/
• Yankee Group webinar replay:
• Enterprise in the Cloud, the Emergence of Anywhere IT presented by Sheryl
Kingstone and Zeus Kerravala
Listen at: http://blogs.yankeegroup.com/2009/03/25/webinar/
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18. Thank you!
Josh Holbrook, Director, jholbrook@yankeegroup.com
Zeus Kerravala, Senior VP, zkerravala@yankeegroup.com
Upcoming webinar:
Fiber to the Home: Making That Business Model Work
June 30, 2009
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