Smarter working is a set of practices designed to give employees greater flexibility in how and where they work, empowering them to be their most productive while they enjoy a more rewarding professional life. By adopting advanced communications and design principles that support in-office, virtual and mobile work styles equally well, smarter working emphasises business results over structured office hours and locations.
In addition, smarter working give people the flexibility to work in a location that fits the type of work situation they need at the time, be it a contemplative, private, collaborative or connected environment.
Prioritising people over place, smarter working delivers flexible solutions that fit how different people work, and make it easier to work more effectively and successfully across work environments, wherever they are.
Supporting points:
* Expertise in integration and design for the human form build on our legacy of superior audio and voice.
* We create personal communication solutions that give people the flexibility to work more effectively and efficiently, wherever they are.
* Smarter working is central to a modern workforce and has the power to accelerate business results and competitive advantage, and Plantronics is essential to smarter working, regardless of device or location.
* Plantronics is a partner you can trust to help understand and adopt the principles of smarter working.
* Plantronics is the brand of preference for smarter working among consumers and professionals (IT).
“Work used to be a place. It was where moms and dads went to in the morning and came home from at night. But the relationship between work and worker has changed; it's not as much about where we are as what we do and how we do it. Mobility has been a primary driver of this change, with smartphones, laptops and tablets keeping us connected wherever we are, and even in between. As mobility grew, so did the interest in more flexible work arrangements that don't ask people to conform to structured locations or hours. It's called smarter working,” says Duncan Barnes, Plantronics Sub-Saharan Africa Lead.
Smarter working is being driven by working parents, by a generation of younger workers who grew up completely mobile, and the broader consumerisation of IT. And with growing economic pressures and an increasingly decentralised workforce, employers see an opportunity to adapt their office environments and save on real estate and infrastructure costs, to enhance their ability to recruit and retain people with flexible arrangements, and to make work a more productive and rewarding experience for everyone. The emerging smarter workplaces thoughtfully match the needs of the knowledge workers of today and into the future. Spaces are created to readily adapt to ever-changing activities and mobile working. They are designed to foster the sharing of ideas and information while embracing different types of work; collaborative, immersive, reflective, and remote.
From remote workers to the conference room, communications are the critical bridge that connects people to each other and their work. Plantronics' expertise in integration and design for the human form build on its legacy of superior audio and voice. In its endless pursuit of innovations that deliver what people need next, it builds advanced solutions to give people the flexibility they need to work efficiently and smoothly across the places that make up their work environment, wherever they may be. True to its history, audio and voice are carried by Plantronics devices with unmatched consistency, quality and clarity, regardless of location.
“Our newest headsets are designed to be the centre point for smarter working and adapt easily to the way you work, wherever you work. The idea is to empower you to be your most productive, with high quality audio in a simple experience that carries across mobile device, desk phone and PC,” says Barnes.
By helping you focus on the results you want to achieve, not where you are, Plantronics gives you the flexibility that can create a more rewarding work life.
The bottom line benefits of smarter working are clear: smarter use of time, technology, and space. The return on smarter working investments is considerable, with a workforce that is motivated, productive and efficient; better enabled to provide superior customer service; and a diversified workforce that is truly connected.
As a leading provider of audio solutions around the world, Plantronics has a deep understanding of smarter working practices and puts that knowledge to work in its Santa Cruz, California headquarters. As a company focused on bringing simply smarter communications to workers of all kinds, its home base by the beach is a living illustration of smarter working, with office space and audio solutions that foster ideas, relationships and innovation to make great things happen.
Contact Duncan Barnes at Plantronics to find out how the company enables its workforce to work smarter, and increase productivity in a working style that keeps them motivated.
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