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iPhone or Free Coffee The Workers Have Spoken

iPhone or Free Coffee The Workers Have Spoken 58 percent of workers said they’d give up free coffee in lieu of being able to use their own device in the workplace. No Title 39 percent said they’d forgo free food if they could bring their devices to work. No Title 26 percent said they’d give […]

Aug 8, 2011
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1iPhone or Free Coffee The Workers Have Spoken

58 percent of workers said they’d give up free coffee in lieu of being able to use their own device in the workplace.

2No Title

39 percent said they’d forgo free food if they could bring their devices to work.

3No Title

26 percent said they’d give up paid parking for better device choice.

4No Title

And 20 percent of workers even said they’d give up a vacation day.

5No Title

56 percent of survey participants said that work-related mobile apps on the job make them more productive.

6No Title

Almost half of workers state that they would use an employer-provided online marketplace for downloading company-approved mobile applications.

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Only 19 percent of participants strongly agree that their employers make it as easy for them to do their jobs from a mobile device as they can from a work computer.

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And just 29 percent claim their company’s IT departments are generally good at managing mobile devices.

9No Title

Barely more than a quarter of workers thought highly about their IT department’s ability to set up or troubleshoot mobile applications or programs.

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