THE TRADITIONAL WORKPLACE, AS WE'VE KNOWN IT, DOESN'T EVEN EXIST TODAY. The explosion of new technologies, mass adoption of social channels, ubiquity of mobile and connectivity, and proliferation of devices continue to drive massive transformation, but at what cost? How can large organizations collaborate, integrate, and innovate quickly enough to survive at the speed of their customers? What are the questions we could or should be asking to really make changes for work that make sense? The answers lie only in bringing the brightest minds together to figure it out.

1. T H E F U T U R E O F W O R K
T ECH NOLOGY
#NewWayToWork
74% of respondents define
a “social” business as one
that uses social technology
to foster collaboration
among customers,
employees and partners.
*#IBMSocialStudy, 2014
As of today, at least 72%
of businesses have adopted
the cloud. Within 3 years,
that number will reach a
staggering 91%
of businesses.
*20 Cloud Computing Stats You Want to Know, 2014
Drive Internal and External Collaboration:
64% Deployed capabilities via mobile.
*#IBMSocialStudy, 2014

2. T H E F U T U R E O F W O R K
T ECH NOLOGY
#NewWayToWork
Integrating social technologies results in:
5x more likely to deliver social business via mobile,
6x more likely to use social media analytics and
7x more likely to use social business in the cloud
*Sandy Carter, Social Insights Blog, 2014
2 out of 3 companies
will adopt a BYOD
solution by 2017
*Seven Stats About The Future of BYOD, AKUITY, 2014
Over 60% of enterprises
allow or tolerate employee
use of personal devices
to access enterprise data
*State of BYOD and Mobile Security Report, 2014

3. T H E F U T U R E O F W O R K
T ECH NOLOGY
#NewWayToWork
By 2030, Millennials will make up to
75% of the workforce
*Meghan M. Biro – Embracing Change to the Re-Imagined Workforce, 2014
10 billion: This is the
number of personal mobile
devices that are estimated
to be in use by 2020
*Seven Stats About The Future of BYOD, AKUITY, 2014
91% of us wake up
and reach for our devices
because we are addicted
to technology
*Daniel Newman, In The Future Technology Will Be Invisible, 2015

4. T H E F U T U R E O F W O R K
COLLABORATION/ C O M M U NI C ATION
#NewWayToWork
Organizations offering workplace
flexibility increased engagement
and motivation by more than 80%
*Meghan M. Biro – Embracing Change to the Re-Imagined Workforce, 2014
94% of surveyed workers
have felt overwhelmed by
information to the
point of incapacity
*The Knowledge Worker’s Day: Our Findings, Basex, 2012
The average interaction
worker spends an estimated
28% of the work week
managing email
*McKinsey Global Institute - The social economy: Unlocking value and productivity
through social technologies, July 2012, and Susan Felman, Hidden cost of information
work: A progress report, International Data Corporation, May 2009

5. T H E F U T U R E O F W O R K
COLLABORATION/ C O M M U NI C ATION
#NewWayToWork
79% of adults agree that a successful
career today requires collaborating and
sharing credit with others
*The Athena Doctrine, 2013
81% of people said you
need both masculine and
feminine traits to thrive in
today’s world
*The Athena Doctrine, 2013
In testing cooperative behavior,
50% of participants behaved
cooperatively
*The Unselfish Gene, 2011

6. T H E F U T U R E O F W O R K
COLLABORATION/ C O M M U NI C ATION
#NewWayToWork
Only 20% believe their
organization is
currently acting
truly “social”
*#IBMSocialStudy, 2014
45% of companies are
using social to identify
internal talent or
key contributors
*Meghan Biro - Embracing Change to the Re-imagined Workforce, 2014
74% of respondents define a
“social” business as one that
uses social technology to foster
collaboration among
customers, employees
and partners
*#IBMSocialStudy, 2014

7. T H E F U T U R E O F W O R K
TA L E N T
#NewWayToWork
Mining community
expertise is a grassroots
effort — 43% rely on
employee evangelists
to help kickstart
adoption
*IBM Social Study, 2014
70% of U.S. workers are
not engaged or actively
disengaged at work
*Gallup’s State of the American Workplace report, 2013
Talent development and
employee engagement
account for over 80%
of top workforce
challenges for
CHROs today
*IBM CHRO Insight Study, 2013

8. T H E F U T U R E O F W O R K
TA L E N T
#NewWayToWork
The CAI study found that 82%
of social organizations used
social networks to recruit,
versus the16% average in a
Jan. 2014 IBM Smarter Workforce
Institute study
*IBM Social Study, 2014
Today, 47% of
workers were
born after
1980
*Will Stanley SHRM SlideShare
Millennials will be
the majority workforce
by2020 and
75% of the workforce
by 2025
*Jacob Morgan, We Are All Cogs Working for
Slave- Drovers as We Go about Out Daily Drudgery

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