Working from home is not a “one size fits all” situation.
As the pandemic forced new workplace configurations, employers and employees alike have learned the benefits and hindrances of using just one structure.
The general consensus is a hybrid or combination of workspaces and models allows workers at different stages of life and career their most productive choices.
It seems like a perfectly realistic proposition to use an over-the-top app to make and receive business calls on a mobile device. But there's a snag.
The human.
Research conducted by Nemertes of more than 525 businesses found that only about 5% of the workforce with IT-provided UC apps installed actually used them for making phone calls.
Workers by and large still use native dialers provided by...
On 17 June 1946, a driver in St. Louis pulled out a handset from under his car’s dashboard, placed a phone call and made history. It was the first mobile telephone call, placed on a system inaugurated by Southwestern Bell, one of AT&T’s local operating companies.
The service was only available in major cities and highway corridors and was aimed at the business user, including utility companies...
For some companies, it was a revelation about a new way to work. For others, it was validation of a growing trend.
The sudden cutover to “Work-From-Home” for many employees last year caused a broad rethink about where and when work can take place.
And now that businesses are opening back up, the hybrid workstyle, with part of the time in the office and part of the time at home or elsewhere, is...
Mobile workers using simple self-destructing messaging functions in popular apps could ignite major legal repercussions for businesses with required regulatory recording and archiving.
But as the remote working trend continues to rise – as well as now universal use of mobile phones for business communications – smart companies are enforcing compliance policies by ensuring communications on...
Hybrid work models are here to stay.
You don’t need to study workplace trends to see one lasting aftermath of the pandemic is that employers will likely permit employees to adopt ”hybrid” work - performing their jobs part of the time from home and part from an office or other location.
In a report published today by the Demos Group - The Nowhere Office, Julia Hobsbawn says:
There will no longer...
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As pandemic response measures continue in countries around the world, one thing has become increasingly clear to business leaders: remote work or working from home is here to stay – and mobile communications is the key to making it easy.
This week,cloud storage service Dropbox was the latest company to announce that it’s designing its whole employee experience to be “virtual first,” from IT to HR
If you are in sales or business development like me, then working from home is really nothing new. I've been doing it for most of my career.
I recently joined Tango Networks, and instead of what I have always had, a desk phone and mobile with two separate numbers, they simply provided me with a SIM card to slot into my mobile phone.
We can all be fast-fingered with messages using applications on social channels, but at some point, we do need to speak to someone.Consider the ways that we communicate in sales.
If you are in the business of selling communications services to business customers, you know that a voice call is still often the "killer app" for our communications platforms. Nothing can close a deal more effectively...
October 11, 2021