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

9.
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