CIO - Any and all executives or managers looking to get more productivity from their information workers -- and, really, what company isn't shamelessly espousing a "more with less" philosophythese days? -- might want to pay attention to the following strategy: Set your workers free from the office.
"Teleworking," or working fromhome/Starbucks/not-within-corporate-walls, of course, is nothing new. High-powered laptops,ubiquitous broadband and Wi-Fi connections, and even-my-grandmother-has-one cell phones have all enabled a seamless virtual work-experience for the modern employee.
But new survey data from Forrester Research shows that tech-savvy information workerswant to be connected to (yet untethered from) the office even more--they want smartphones. And they want them badly: Many are even ready, willing and able to foot all or part of the bill to gain access to corporate e-mail and documents, as well as stay connected to their work lives--often at the expense of their personal lives.
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