Categorized | Business, Whitepapers

Posted on 26 October 2009
Tags: Manhattan Software Inc., Mobility, Whitepaper, Workplace

You are here: IWMSNews » Business » The New Workplace Imperative: A Call to Action for Business, the Environment and People

The New Workplace Imperative: A Call to Action for Business, the Environment and People

Thanks to Nancy Sanquist of Manhattan Software, Inc. iwmsnews.com is able to publish their latest whitepaper: The New Workplace Imperative: A Call to Action for Business, the Environment and People. To download the full-length paper, please visit http://usa.manhattansoftware.com/mobility.

Mobility Now

The new workplace imperative has been evolving over the last fifteen years. Work became untethered to a specific location and began to be performed in all sorts of places outside of the traditional office building. The business drivers include employees’ new expectations of the workplace, mature technology, embracement of sustainable practices for real estate, an increase in global competition and, most recently, the economic recession. The concept of mobility as a work style in which a person can choose to use multiple spaces and places to do their work is a well established, ever-evolving work practice.

Initially known as telework or telecommuting, morphing into “work from home,” and continuing to evolve under such terms as “alternative” or “distributed workplace strategies,” this work practice is part of an accelerating series of advances in tools and technologies that add worker choice to the workplace. In some cases, however, it is not about choice. If you are part of a global project team, you do not go back to the office to make that midnight call to Australia, but do it from the comfort of your home, hotel or local café – wherever you happen to be. Work is where people are – not where the office is located.