With the competition in the market going haywire and the pace of development galloping at full speed, it’s only natural that a ‘digital revolution’ makes its way into the heart of the organisational sector as well.
So, the main question becomes: By 2020 what sort of technological upgrades can you expect to see in places where human labour thrives the best?
Extreme flexibility in workplace policies is something we’ll probably witness in the upcoming era, even though its reverberations are already being felt. Today, millennial employees, especially those belonging to highly progressive firms, are empowered enough to work on their own terms, from any place and at any time.
According to a study by Owl Labs, this freedom has made the mobile labour force 24% more productive than their desk-bound contemporaries. Such a rapid decentralisation of a workplace unit is figured as a natural outcome of the ongoing technological developments, such as cloud computing and VoIP, etc. which are currently being incorporated in organisational setups.
So, by next year, you can expect to find a greater movement towards work-spaces powered by a ‘distributed’ work-force and:
Now, they can remotely connect to the organisation’s private cloud network and accomplish their tasks on the virtual plane. Once this practice catches on and the networking technology becomes more refined, you will find pop-up workplaces wherever you go in distant times.
Artificial Intelligence, in the form of Alexa and Siri, has made its way into our homes and into our hearts quite cleverly. There are literally hundreds of tasks - from fetching information to operating smart home devices - which we ‘delegate’ to these intelligent mechanisms on a daily basis.
This is just the beginning. Imagine what their inculcation in general workplaces will do for human society as a whole. According to Gartner’s 2019 CIO Survey, 37% of business organisations have already implemented AI in some form throughout their structures, and interestingly, this adoption has tripled in the past twelve months. Given the speed with which this trend is becoming popular, you’ll surely find AI fully automating workplaces in the near future.
For now, the following three major AI x Corporate waves can be discerned clearly:
In the coming years, you can hope to find smart AI robots digitising and automating monotonous tasks in a workplace, such as maintaining customer records, updating inventories and retrieving lost data, etc., thereby, giving creative space to the human workforce for further innovation.
Luckily, a branch of Artificial Intelligence i.e. Machine Learning can help solve this issue and boost productivity in the workplace. ML is a smart AI algorithm that analyses data, learns the inherent patterns and makes decisions with minimal human intervention.
Such a mechanism will bring about more personalised targeting, better security and higher profit ratio for the workplace, minus the drudgery, that is.
Thus, as you can see, the inculcation of the aforementioned technological upgrades is sure to transform the traditional workplace that you and I know into something more digitally revolutionised in the coming years.
Let’s just hang tight in the meanwhile.