Elevating productivity, empowering workers, and supercharging morale: How blending digital tools with physical environments is changing the modern workplace.
Employee experience is one of the biggest success indicators in businesses today. Deliver an excellent and unrivalled experience for your employees, and they will be more productive and happier, and a lot less likely to go looking for greener pastures elsewhere.
However, while technology has radically changed the way we work, the physical workspace often still looks and functions much the same as it did years ago. Yet, on top of that, employees now find themselves juggling between ever-expanding selections of apps and logins to the point they spend much of their time looking for information and working on repetitive manual tasks.
It’s time for things to change, especially in the age of distributed workforces and the growing need for actionable workplace insights. Here’s how HPE Pointnext is making that happen:
1. Maximize your real estate investment
Office space accounts for one of the biggest expenses for many businesses, yet rooms often sit empty, while crowded workspaces lead to stunted productivity and reduced morale. Today, the most effective workspaces present a significant departure from the cubical farms of old or, indeed, the open-plan environments that are most common today. The future of the workspace is a flexible environment with hot-desking and dynamic meeting room scheduling. Instead of having no visibility into desk and meeting room usage, workspace managers can continuously adapt their environments by making decisions based on actual usage metrics.
2. Reduce meeting preparation times
It typically takes around 10 minutes to start a meeting, and often even longer when the meeting involves both remote and on-site attendees. First, the room technology has to be set up, and then there’s often a scramble for cables and other infrastructure until, finally, hosts get around to initiating a call. As a result, hybrid meetings are often anything but seamless, with remote and on-site attendees having quite different experiences. However, thanks to a combination of wireless displays and automatic setup and configuration, all attendees can join the meeting and get started straight away.
3. Merge remote and on-site workforces
While there’s no denying the benefits of flexible working environments, they’re not always easy to manage. Remote employees often have a hard time collaborating with on-site teams, while managers struggle to retain oversight of work being done outside the office. Seamless digital collaboration between remote and in-house teams is essential for removing these barriers to productivity. The workspace of the future seamlessly combines the virtual and physical worlds by making sure that the same information and resources are available to everyone at the same time, no matter where they’re physically located.
4. Provide digital signage for guidance
Unfamiliar office environments and infrastructure present challenges to new employees and visitors alike. Meetings often end up being interrupted, and disputes arise around hot-desking practices. This is due largely to a lack of real-time availability information. These challenges are greatly accentuated in large offices and campuses, where even seasoned employees may have difficulty finding their ways around. Thanks to digital signage synchronized with mobile apps, employees can better understand their workspaces and move around more efficiently, while important meetings can proceed without interruption.
5. Gather insights into employee experience
One of the key benefits of remote work is that it can be easier to monitor employee productivity and experience, due to the fact that every digital activity generates actionable data. But there’s no reason that benefit shouldn’t be extended to physical workspaces as well. With real-time, actionable data on physical workspace usage, managers are better positioned to continually improve the employee experience, maximize their real estate investment, and optimize space efficiency. Visitors and new employees will also have an easier time of it, since integrated visitor management tools provide quick and easy registration and check-in for lobby areas.
Hewlett Packard Enterprise is redefining the modern working environment by blending digital tools with physical workspaces to deliver actionable intelligence and supercharge productivity.
Tarek Abu-Ghazaleh
Hewlett Packard Enterprise
twitter.com/hpe
linkedin.com/company/hewlett-packard-enterprise
hpe.com/sa
