Xerox has released results of surveys into mobility in and out of the workplace, which reveal that 38% of workers feel most productive when at home.
Three out of five employees claimed they didn’t need the office to be productive, and 1.3 billion workers will have gone mobile by 2015, the study claims.
74% of companies allow some form of BYOD, will 75% of workers with smartphones and tablets will want mobile printing by 2015.
Dan Smith, Head of Integrated Marketing, Middle East and Africa, Developing Markets Operations, Xerox, said, “Xerox recognizes that current trends across the world such as the consumerisation of IT, the desire to bring your own device to work, the physical location of where you chose to do your work, and the ease with which you can access data and infrastructure securely is of paramount importance to today’s CIO. Users are more flexible and more demanding at the same time, and organisations that give the freedom and empowerment to staff, to meet these changing times gain significant competitive advantages.
“Xerox has a vast array of offerings that enable these trends, such as Cloud BYOD services, Mobile print and Mobile data access, MPS solutions and Security Services that puts IT back into the hands of the user. Enabling users to be productive wherever and whenever they chose should be the aim of forward thinking organisations, and Xerox is here to help”