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EDITOR’S QUESTION
MORTEN ILLUM, EMEA VICE
PRESIDENT AT ARUBA
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R
ecent research by Google supports
a point I have been discussing with
customers for many months now;
there is no real difference between the user
experience and the employee experience
any more.
What that means is, if you expect to
schedule your Sunday with your mobile
phone calendar, upload photos to cloud
storage and connect with people using
applications, you will expect to do pretty
much the same thing on Monday, when you
arrive at the office.
In 2018, many of us don’t feel efficient
unless we’re able to access applications
on demand and this applies to our work
as much as our personal lives. Given we
spend as much time in our offices as we
do at home, we have to consider how the
workplace can become better equipped to
meet our daily expectations.
Designing the workplace to better
incorporate technology is not about being
futuristic. It’s about meeting the minimum
requirements that users now have.
So how do we go about creating a better
workspace? It starts with considering
how to make everything more efficient.
A win-win solution for the business and
employee would be if building designers
and technology companies collaborated on
the designing of new, or redevelopment of,
existing buildings.
Working together to create a digital plan of
each space, as well as the kind of structural,
technical plans traditionally drawn up by
those in the industry, could increase the
chances of these spaces meeting the needs
of its occupants.
This could be as simple as re-arranging the
furniture to give teams more of a chance to
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interact, with screens, docking stations and
charge points to keep people productive with
whatever device they are carrying.
The point is, if these different viewpoints
and experiences come together to create
‘smart’ workplaces, the people who work
here will also be able to collaborate more
– spending less time trying to find cables
and connections, and more time getting
the job done.
Access to a secure, reliable and fast Wi-Fi
connection is essential for most job roles
and industries now, especially for those who
are office-based or working remotely. But if
the future workplace is not just connected,
but smart, it can become much more
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