I am a strong advocate of smartphones as I firmly believe this makes employees more productive. In my own organization I have been predicting at least two-thirds of the staff will have some sort of smartphone to their disposal in the next two years. Turns out I am backed by the numbers.
According to Forrester’s 2009 Smartphones and Telecommuting: Workforce Technology Adoption 2009 report many of them will are willing to pay the bill or at least part of it to gain access to corporate email and documents.
Another encouraging finding is that teleworkers, on average, work two hours more per week than office workers. Access to real applications from anywhere means more work in more places.
I am convinced we’ll see organizations developing an increasing number of native applications for smartphones to provide this access. While the web is moving towards a standards based approach that works in all browsers, smartphone applications will move the opposite direction. Why? To leverage the platform’s strengths, and because web applications don’t work on smartphones, however good their browsers are.
Read more on FierceMobileIT and Computerworld.
Can’t wait to get my electronic leash :P
Hahaha, wouldn’t expect anything else from you. But for many people it is a form of freedom instead of a leash. And you have your webmail leash already. :)
Oh shit, now we wont escape anywhere. I am trying to avoid having a mobile at all.