Johnson Controls Global WorkPlace Solutions has launched Collaboration 2020, a research project to better understand the link between collaborative work patterns and business performance. One of the key focuses of this research is on how technology can help minimize environmental impact within office spaces by focusing on collaboration in the work place.
A decrease in business travel equates to a lowered carbon footprint; less people making a daily commute; and significantly lowered business travel, collaboration in the workplace will certainly make a difference globally in the green space. Collaborative work clearly has significant environmental benefits that are hard to ignore. With more online interactions and office rooms with collaborative technology, there is less of a need for paper, reducing the exhaustive environmental impact of paper production. The increased use of teleconferencing and web conferencing will considerably cut down business travel and will encourage more flexible hours with at-home working.
The survey also looked at more quirky concepts and found that nearly half of managers would consider having an office robot if available, whilst a surprising 30% would even consider a bionic eye to overlay information.
The survey was conducted to investigate how professionals currently use different technologies and workspaces and how they expect to use them in the year 2020. Information was gathered from more than 1,700 white collar workers with at least five years experience. The respondents were 51.6% female and 48.4% male and came from the US, UK, Germany, Australia, India, Canada and China.
Key findings from Collaboration 2020:
- The function or role of the office and physical workplace is becoming one of supporting collaboration
- The use of video communications and real time collaborations tools will increase substantially
- Cost is the only real driver of the vast majority of workplace-related change initiatives
- Speed is considered a key differentiator, and it is becoming even more important as the pace of change is increasing
- For corporate executives or subject matter experts to really engage in multiple meetings on several continents in a single day, without ever leaving their office or even home office represents a giant leap in the possibility to exercise global leadership
- New user interfaces based on user experience frameworks from leading consumer brands will remove key technology adoption barriers and empower large groups of non-expert users to improve organizational performance on an enterprise level rather than a group of functional level
- One size fits all environments are less effective than environments that are built-for-purpose.
- Key findings – percentages on the use of technologies and workspaces now and in 2020
- Web conference – 19 percent reported high use currently, with 57 percent anticipating high use in 2020
- Two-dimensional video conferencing – 18 percent to 51 percent
- Team spaces with incorporated collaborative technologies – 20 percent to 52 percent
- Dedicated collaboration room – 18 percent to 36 percent
- Instant messaging – 33 percent to 54 percent
- Traditional meeting room – 40 percent to 27 percent
- Desk phone – 50 percent to 33 percent
- Three-dimensional video conferencing – 44 percent of office workers anticipate high use in 2020
The Full Report Can Be Found Here
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