During these uncertain times-
when people all around the world are sinking in cluelessness, wondering about how to move forward and get on with their lives, it has become especially hard for businesses to stay afloat. Covid-19 has forced so many workers to adopt ‘work from home’ while others to shut down their business. Going digital is not an option now; it has become a necessity.
But how does one assure productivity, professionalism, and networking while working from home? The answer is an efficient digital workspace. While the evolution of the workspace started way back, the growth of information technology has proved to be a game-changer. Technology has transformed the way people connect and communicate.
Even the pandemic factor aside, the Digital Workplace is a growing concept and is endorsed globally.
The benefits of switching to a digital workspace are:
Acquaintance to technology:
Let’s face it, Information Technology and Artificial Intelligence have become an integral part of our personal and professional lives. There is no going back from here, so switching to a digital working environment will acquaint the workers to the technology used and will only train them for the advances that are yet to come.
Minimizes distractions:
A majority of workers scroll through apps on their smartphones about ten times in an hour. Having a bundle of apps stacked up in phones or laptops screams distraction, and it gets difficult for a worker to focus. A digital workspace offers a ‘one for all’ kind of access for any app, SaaS, web, mobile or virtual, and IT can manage it all in one unified console on the back end. Advanced security controls for SaaS and web apps mean to provide an accessible but controlled environment. Another issue is that employees spend around 8 hours each week searching systems, entering passwords, and hunting down information leading them to feel disengaged. This is why a digital workspace offers single sign-on (SSO) to every app and file, from any device. Fewer passwords minimize the breach of security.
Accessibility:
Digital Workplace lets employees access their apps and data anytime – on any device, from any location regardless of whether the information is stored through cloud services or in the data center. For a digital workspace solution to be successful, it must deliver a unified, contextual, and secure experience for IT and end-users.
More reasons to digitalize workspace can be:
- As a massive chunk of the workforce is retiring- the newcomers are left without the expertise of experienced workers. Hence raising the need to store as much as knowledge as the retiring people can pass on. The only sensible way will be to do it digitally.
- Excessive data can be another reason for the same. With the records and files of data increasing exponentially, it becomes hard for the employees to sort out information through the manual processes.
- The need for speed is why technology is in power. In today’s fast-paced world, employees need to work faster and collaborate more effectively to get their jobs done.
