BYO office, ugly is dead, and other Digital Workplace news worth reading

At DWG we like to keep an eye on digital workplace news – here’s a quick round up of recent posts.

It’s all in the numbers

So you think you have a great (or terrible) digital workplace? Can you back that up with numbers?

• Research Findings: How your digital workplace is falling behind
• Great examples of Digital Workplace productivity savings
• Data and metrics in a world of ‘Digital Workplace’ opinion

Back to the office

New ways of working took a hit this month as Yahoo! and Best Buy swung back from flexible to traditional work styles.

• RIP WFH: Yahoo! calls time on homeworking
• Welcome to the Past: Best Buy Embraces Last Century Management Practices
• Most Americans want virtual work, but expect traditional office

Shifting sands of government IT

Is the promise of digital government being realized? And if so, is it happening quickly enough?

• Government could cut ICT bill by 32% with better flexible working
• Government IT: once a laggard now a leader?
• Get ready for a seismic shift in federal IT

Consumerized: enterprise tech

As attention (and investment) swings from consumer to enterprise start ups, will the UX of enterprise tech get a boost?

• The Enterprise Cool Kids
• Consumerization of tech: The new enterprise disruptor
• Ugly is dead: YouEarnedIt and the consumerization of enterprise software

Bring Your Own [fill in the blanks]

“Bring Your Own” comes in several flavours – from phones to PCs and even to offices.

• The Bring Your Own Software trend – and why it will be brief
• Bring your own device could spell end for work PC
• The birth of Bring Your Own Office

Dear Digital Workers

Tech writers debate (rather hotly) the ins and outs of digital etiquette.

• Redefining etiquette in the Digital Era (Nick Bilton, NY times has a rant)
• A Guide to Advanced Digital Etiquette (Rebecca Greenfield, Atlantic Wire responds)
• The future of online etiquette is already here — it’s just unevenly distributed (Matthew Ingram, Gigaom responds)

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