WHILE there is an increasing trend toward employee mobility, studies show the PC still remains “the center of how work gets done,” said Dell EMC Country General Manager Ronnie Latinazo.
It is important for companies to get technology right because it underpins the modern office and impacts how work is done, he said during the launch last week of Dell EMC devices designed for the corporate market.
“We’ve heard people say the PC is dead, that it’s the end of the PC era but actually we’re seeing growth and if you look at the technology still coming out in the market, many of these center around the capabilities and technologies available on the PCs,” Latinazo said.
He said work fundamentally changed because of advances in technology, which improves 10X every five years. With advances in tech, devices are getting faster, more powerful, and even smaller, he said.
“To a large extent, the definition of work has changed. In the past, work was a place, I’ll go to work, I’ll go to the office. After five o’clock, I go home, I switch off, its personal life. But that has really changed. The business hour is no longer 9 to 5, it’s as soon as you wake up and probably before you sleep,” he said.
He said data shows 60 percent of employees work even after business hours and 2/3 do some business at home.
Latinazo highlighted the importance of tech solutions for companies saying 42% of employees indicated they would quit a job with poor technology. It also has an impact on recruitment with 82 percent saying a company’s state of technology influences the job they take.
He said this trend will continue, as can be gleaned by the finding that 44 percent of millennials think their workspace isn’t smart enough.
He said Dell EMC studied how people worked and came up with seven different personas based on where and how they perform tasks. These personas were either desk-centric, remote workers, or always on the go.
Latinazo said they found that 52 percent of the workforce spends some if not all of their time working remotely. The company also found that 72 percent of employees see collaboration increase with “more grab and go technology.”
”For on-the-go professionals, 39% of the group uses multiple devices while traveling for work.
“Only Dell has the right technology for every work style,” Latinazo said. “We would be in the best position to serve all the requirements of a workforce given the breadth of the products that we have, the technology that we bring to the market, and the innovations that we introduced.”
He said there is a need to transform the way companies deploy tech resources and look at the “whole lifecycle.”
“Dell can provide help in all the key phases in this life cycle – from planning to deployment to supporting and maintaining it and even to a large extent in helping them refresh it because best practice shows that the cost of ownership of these machines become much higher after three years,” he said.
During the event, Dell EMC highlighted the Dell Latitude 7390 2-in-1, Dell Latitude 7290, Dell Vostro 5370, Dell Latitude 5290, as well as various accessories to help improve the experience in using the devices at home, in the office, and on the road.
The devices come with top of the line specs and thin and light designs to meet the requirements of the new workforce, company officials said during the event.