Employees increasingly 'away from office'
- Published: 13/06/2007
Around 93 per cent of IT employees now work for organisations where staff spend part of the week working away from the office, a new report claims.
A survey of UK IT managers from IP telephony provider ShoreTel also revealed that a similar proportion have IT systems in place which enable employees to work from outside their office.
The survey also revealed that over half of IT managers think that having staff working away from home will not make their job any harder. Nearly three-quarters had offsite access to company emails, while 54 per cent had remote access to their company's network.
"Organisations need to develop better tools to support remote employees, both to deliver high customer satisfaction and productivity, as well as to retain good people," Steve Timmerman, vice president of marketing for ShoreTel commented.
"For some IT managers, this increased mobility is proving hard to manage. Having applications that are easy to use and manage is essential."
"ShoreTel is seeing IP telephony technologies increasingly applied to mobile and remote workers. The most significant use is in enabling out-of-office workers to use 'PBX' functions such as forwarding, transferring, or the conferencing of calls from any device, anywhere."
A survey of UK IT managers from IP telephony provider ShoreTel also revealed that a similar proportion have IT systems in place which enable employees to work from outside their office.
The survey also revealed that over half of IT managers think that having staff working away from home will not make their job any harder. Nearly three-quarters had offsite access to company emails, while 54 per cent had remote access to their company's network.
"Organisations need to develop better tools to support remote employees, both to deliver high customer satisfaction and productivity, as well as to retain good people," Steve Timmerman, vice president of marketing for ShoreTel commented.
"For some IT managers, this increased mobility is proving hard to manage. Having applications that are easy to use and manage is essential."
"ShoreTel is seeing IP telephony technologies increasingly applied to mobile and remote workers. The most significant use is in enabling out-of-office workers to use 'PBX' functions such as forwarding, transferring, or the conferencing of calls from any device, anywhere."