{"id":24647694,"date":"2015-11-10T15:52:55","date_gmt":"2015-11-10T15:52:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/airespring.com\/stagin-v2\/?p=24647694"},"modified":"2023-10-26T15:53:24","modified_gmt":"2023-10-26T15:53:24","slug":"how-unified-communications-enable-the-mobile-worker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/airespring.com\/stagin-v2\/how-unified-communications-enable-the-mobile-worker\/","title":{"rendered":"How Unified Communications Enable the Mobile Worker"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thanks to the proliferation of mobile devices and the acceleration of networks, today\u2019s workers are able to do their jobs anywhere they happen to be, so long as they\u2019re connected.This functionality brings with it the rise of the mobile worker, i.e., the employee who works from home, from the office, from the caf\u00e9, from the airport, etc. While some businesses might hesitate to grant their staff this freedom, many have fully embraced mobility already. According to\u00a0IDC<\/a>, more than 105 million U.S. workers (72.3 percent) will be mobile by 2020. Today, 96.2 million workers already are.
\nBecause they\u2019re not at the office all day, mobile workers need to be outfitted with the right equipment in order to be effective. Luckily, chances are your workers already have a big piece of that equipment puzzle: their own mobile device.
\nAs the name suggests, the bring your own device (BYOD) movement centers on allowing employees to use their own tablets and smartphones to do their work. While it\u2019s understandable that business owners might be hesitant to give BYOD the OK, consider the following: Nearly three-quarters of companies have either moved forward with BYOD or are planning to in the near future, according to\u00a0Tech Pro Research<\/a>. Studies show that BYOD increases both productivity and worker satisfaction while also decreasing costs, so what\u2019s not to like? (It\u2019s perfectly fine to choose not to pursue BYOD, but then you need to provide mobile devices to your workers.)
\nWith a mobile device always within reach, employees need one more essential ingredient to get their jobs done wherever they are: cloud-based unified communications (UC) tools.
\nSimply put, UC solutions streamline all communications into one central interface. So rather than having to sign into an email application, toggle over to a softphone, switch over to an instant messaging app and then launch a video conference from yet another platform, employees can access all of the mission-critical communications they need from one location.
\nWhat\u2019s more, when UC tools are deployed through the cloud, employees are able to access these communications from anywhere they happen to find themselves. This means they can move projects forward, respond to important client requests and manage employees whenever there\u2019s any downtime.
\nFor example, let\u2019s imagine a member of the business development team, Suzie, is flying across the country to attend a thought leadership conference. Suzie can work in the car as she gets driven to the airport. She can work while she\u2019s waiting for her flight to board. Thanks to WiFi on planes, she can even work when she\u2019s 30,000 feet up in the air. Once she\u2019s at the conference, she\u2019s never a click of the mouse or a tap of the finger away from her messages; she\u2019s never out of the loop.
\nIn order to remain competitive, today\u2019s businesses need to invest in mobility due to the fact that so many of today\u2019s workers run all over the place. The good news is that those investments won\u2019t break the bank\u2014but they will pad your bottom line.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Thanks to the proliferation of mobile devices and the acceleration of networks, today\u2019s workers are able to do their jobs anywhere they happen to be, so long as they\u2019re connected.This functionality brings with it the rise of the mobile worker, i.e., the employee who works from home, from the office, from the caf\u00e9, from the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24647694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/airespring.com\/stagin-v2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24647694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/airespring.com\/stagin-v2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/airespring.com\/stagin-v2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/airespring.com\/stagin-v2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/airespring.com\/stagin-v2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24647694"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/airespring.com\/stagin-v2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24647694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24647695,"href":"https:\/\/airespring.com\/stagin-v2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24647694\/revisions\/24647695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/airespring.com\/stagin-v2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24647694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/airespring.com\/stagin-v2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24647694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/airespring.com\/stagin-v2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24647694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}