Employees Want Wireless, Execs Don't Understand
from the it's-tough-to-be-the-boss dept
A new study says that while many employees understand the benefits of wireless technology for their businesses - senior executives don't yet have a grasp on what wireless can do. So, the main gating factor slowing down the adoption of many wireless technologies is simply ignorant senior execs. The study even found a number of employees who use (and pay for) wireless technologies on their own, because it helps make them more productive.
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Benefits?
Bottom line is that employees want it because it's a cool new toy. Senior Execs have been around long enough to have seen hundreds of cool new gadgets come and go without bringing the promised benefits to their companies.
Flashback: "Employees See Need for Web Presence, Sr. Execs Doubtful" Nine times outta ten the Execs were right.
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Re: Benefits?
Employees See Need For Health Insurance, Sr Execs Doubtful
Employees See Need For Safe Work Environment, Sr Execs Doubtful
Employees See Need For Computers, Sr Execs Doubtful
Same old story... Some "execs" see no need for anything new until they start losing employees to other companies which do offer what employees want. The economy may be a little down right now and we (employees) may not have as many choices as before, but that won't last long. Simple fact is - knowledge workers are still NEEDED by companies so, in the end, we will receive what we perceive to be necessities.
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Re: Benefits?
You are advocating employer provided cell phones and PDAs as perks. That's fine. But lets not confuse that with whether or not wireless provides measurable benefits as a replacement for existing LAN infrastructure, etc. because in most cases it does not, and often introduces more problems (security being a big one!) than it solves.
This is a classic case of the natural friction between the "wouldn't it be cool" crowd and the people that are responsible for actually ensuring profitability for the corp.
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Yet another 'gee whiz' technology looking for a ho
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No Subject Given
Wireless access points (with proper security) in conference rooms/presentation facilities. Access to sever databases (we do a lot of GIS/CAD work) for live demos, presentation and training; and, if you choose internet access for guests to get to thier Outlook/Groupwise web gateways. Also eliminates Cat5 running all over the floor and table.
Not going to make or break any company, but saves time, works better and looks more professional. Pretty good benfits for pretty low investments.
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oversimplified use of 'wireless'
Wireless LANs are a very different ballgame, and have very limited practical use in a normal office environment. Unless people have a real business need to use their laptop down the hall every day, why in the world would they be put on a slower, less secure network when you can just drop a 100MB network cable to them? They make sense in rapid deployment or field work, but I have yet to understand why so many offices have wireless lans deployed.
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Productivity gain!
(+10 funny, in a disturbing way 'cuz you know your boss would make ya do that)
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No Subject Given
No, wireless doesn't make sense for everything, but it can solve many problems for much less overhead.
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depends
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Wireless
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Re: Wireless
If everyone thought like that, the PC market may have never taken off. It is still early days in wireless. We need to walk before we can run.
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