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marți, 14 decembrie 2010

60% of employees believe that physical presence in the office is no longer necessary to be productive

Three out of five employees believe that there is no need to be present in the office to be productive and say they would choose a job that is paid less, but has flexibility in accessing information outside the office, rather than a better paid, but lacking flexibility, said respondents to the study of 'The Cisco Connected World Report', produced by the company Cisco .

The share of employees who believe they need not be present in the office to get the best results grow in Asia and Latin America, in India 93% of employees share that view. The same result is prevalent in China (81%) and Brazil (76%).

45% of employees that can access networks, applications and corporate information outside the office said they are working two to three extra hours a day and a quarter said they worked four or more hours. It is very important flexibility to work from anywhere, what motivates employees' loyalty to the company (13%), job choice (12%) and morale (9%).

Almost half of respondents in IT (45%) said they were not prepared in terms of policy and technology to support a more mobile workforce without borders, believing that security (57%), budget (34%) and staff expertise (17%) were the main barriers to allow a more distributed workforce. Employees feel that the obstacles consist of IT and the corporate policies.

Security fears appear to be exaggerated, given that 58% of employees admit that they have allowed people outside the company to use corporate devices without supervision. On the other hand, according Agerpres, 25% of IT respondents said that a quarter of the devices to employees in the last 12 months have been lost or stolen.

The study was commissioned by Cisco and conducted by InsightExpress, a market research firm based in the United States, which analyzed responses from a sample of 2600 people in the United States, Mexico, Brazil, Britain, France, Spain , Germany, Italy, Russia, India, China, Japan and Australia.