It’s incredible that with modern technology, we can attend meetings and complete our work tasks from nearly anywhere. The opportunity for a mobile workplace, otherwise known as “agile working”, is a very real possibility for so many people nowadays.
So, why is “agile working” becoming so important for organisations? The word agile means the ability to move quickly and easily. In this context it means the ability to be flexible and productive, from anywhere.
In today’s world and the demands that it brings we need to be more responsive and efficient in our work, at all hours of the day. The ability to adopt a mobile workplace allows this to happen. Long days at the same desk are thankfully on the way to being behind us, now that we can so readily respond to emails and so many of our tasks remotely.
Quite simply, an agile or mobile workplace is one in which staff can work from anywhere, at any time. This can mean while travelling, in a home office, in a cafe, coffee in hand, or simply in other parts of the office.
This last one would be the idea of “hot-desking,” a term you may have heard as it’s become a bit of a trend lately. Hot-desking is the practice of not allocating a single desk to an individual staff member, so nobody has their “own” desk. It’s the perfect situation for an organisation that hires a lot of part-timers, temps, contractors or have job share arrangements in place.
It means that a staff member comes in, grabs an available desk, does their work and, at the end of the day, packs up their things and off they go. There are two camps on hot-desking; those who love it and those who loathe it, and it remains to be seen if it will stick around. The idea of working remotely though isn’t going anywhere.
The agile working concept is firmly backed up by technological advances like mobile scanners, printers, laptops, even folding keyboards – all designed to be easily carried around and transported.
Today, work-life balance is more important than ever and so the ability to work wherever, whenever has never been more necessary – or more accessible! With a fantastic range of tech devices and accessories on the market, it’s all too easy to make this way of life a reality.
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