In this day and age, mobility is no longer just a buzzword, but a widely-adopted business practice. More and more businesses are recognizing that, in order to remain competitive in their respective industries, they must embrace mobility and outfit their workers with mobile devices such as tablets or ruggedized laptops.. In fact, mobility might actually be an important key to higher employee productivity. Here are a few of the benefits mobility can bring to your business, and how you can encourage mobile adoption.
Mobility allows employees to work remotely.
Mobile devices allow employees to work from anywhere, which means they can accomplish a whole lot more on a daily basis.. Giving employees the option to work remotely via mobile devices cuts the time spent on commutes to the office, and gives employees full schedule flexibility. Many recently launched tablets like Apple’s iPad Pro and so-called “hybrids”, including the Microsoft Surface, give mobile employees a powerful (and completely mobile) PC replacement.
Mobility increases happiness.
Employees that feel empowered are more productive and efficient while they’re on the clock. Mobile devices can be used to help achieve this feeling of empowerment. For example, mobile devices and platforms like the cloud permit heightened mobility and encourage creativity without strapping workers to their desks. This freedom fosters a more innovative environment, resulting in happier, more productive workers, and a better bottom line.
Mobility transforms business processes.
Mobility also enables businesses to completely revamp and modernize their daily processes. For example, business can now replace traditional performance evaluations with more simple mobile models. Performance management tools are available for companies and offer regular checkpoints, goal appraisals, and performance objectives. Mobility also increases the overall engagement of employees in the company, which leads to a tight and well-connected work community.
Encouraging mobile adoption.
Having trouble convincing your employees to embrace mobility? That’s understandable. Oftentimes, employees grow accustomed to well-established procedures and processes and, as a result, are resistant to change. Here are a few tips for getting your employees to adopt mobile devices:
- Promote specific mobile apps to employees, rather than leaving app discovery to chance. When your employees encounter a workplace problem, have app recommendations in mind.
- Do away with employee security concerns by investing in a mobility program that directly addresses security issues. You might consider a leading MDM (mobile device management) software, such as Airwatch or MobileIron, as a starting point.
- Make sure you effectively communicate the benefits of embracing wireless to your employee base –mobility opens the door for them to work remotely, attend conferences without coming into the office, and many other perks.
- Invest in apps that aid in core businesses processes at your company, making it easier for employees who have adopted mobility to succeed.
DataXoom is a mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) which provides 4G and LTE mobile data services exclusively to businesses in the United States. Should you decide to mobilize your business processes, you will undoubtedly require mobile data. Interested in how DataXoom can help you seamlessly integrate new mobile apps? Drop us a note at sales@dataxoom.com, or follow us on Twitter@Dataxoom.
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