Another fun fact: Mobility can give mobile employees another 240 hours per year
Friday, December 10th, 2010 Karen Ambrose Hickey, Editor
Yesterday, Evan Kaplan, our CEO, presented at the GigaOM NetWork conference on the “Rise of the Mobilocracy,” a term I covered yesterday.
Within this new regime of mobilocracy, the mobile employee can be empowered (and provide their company with more working hours), if they can use the tools of their OWN choosing. This includes iPhones, Androids and tablets, such as the iPad.
As mentioned in InformationWeek, by Thomas Claburn, Rise Of Mobile Superworker Predicted:
“Kaplan wasn’t exactly proposing an overthrow of the traditional corporate hierarchy… Rather, he aimed to provide some guidance about how companies should try to accommodate the needs of a mobile workforce and to understand what must happen to business processes and applications when mobility is the design imperative.”
Also, with the release of our year-end Mobile Workforce Report, and predictions, Carl Weinschenk , “Many Shades of Gray in the Remote and Mobile Workforce”
notes:
At the conference, iPass President and CEO Evan Kaplan added some stats that didn’t make the press release: Only 6 percent of respondents disconnect entirely during vacation, he said, and all but 3 percent use at least two devices. Half of respondents use three.
Just so you know, all those stats are in one of our four quarterly Mobile Workforce Reports for 2010. Check out the four reports, and the summary on our website.
You can see some photos from the event posted here at Flickr or on Facebook.
Evan’s presentation is available below. Stay tuned for next week in which I will have his video plus some more fun interviews.
