IDC-Dell barometer of mobility: strong development of the 3G business
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For the fourth year, Dell and IDC have conducted their biannual study on mobility in business. Key lessons of this new edition: mobility develops in business thanks to 3G, and acceptance of employees in a professional portable equipment in the private sphere.
The institute IDC conducted in May 2008, interviews with 650 employees equipped with laptops professionals from 200 companies over 100 employees in all sectors of activity. The idea of this semi-annual barometer is to monitor the changing uses of mobility in business and provide suggestions on the subject at the various players in the industry.
The 3G development as a factor of mobility
Among the main results of this barometer, it appears, first, that the high-speed mobile (3G/3G +) is now adopted by both SMEs (100 to 500 employees) that large accounts (more than 500 employees) . All these companies are now in an important phase of deployment of these 3G technologies. An existing trend there is six months.
The barometer notes that 3G is becoming a predominant factor in my decision to purchase new laptops (43% of companies surveyed see it as such, against 35% a year earlier).
Indeed, the rate of adoption of 3G/3G + increased by 10% in one year. The number of laptops and equipped has increased by 13% in SMEs and 48% for key accounts. For the study, this is due to a “business satisfaction about the ease of use and convenience provided by 3G (fast access), and on the other hand,” pressure from employees for having such equipment “: 80% of employees are not equipped with 3G believe that it” would be useful for them to have laptops equipped “, and one quarter believed that this equipment would be” indispensable “.
The most common uses are 82% internal: 62% as fixed and 20% as mobile within the premises of the company (meeting rooms, warehouses, etc.).. As the uses of mobility purely external to the company (train, client, hotel, airport, etc..), They represent only 18%.
In 2010, the number of laptops equipped with 3G is expected to increase by 10% per annum in SMEs, and 19% for key accounts.
Mobility, a Trojan horse in privacy?
The barometer IDC-Dell also reveals that laptops are used by 69% of the 650 employees interviewed outside the company. 59% of them use them even from their homes, but “primarily” for personal use (86%).
When they are at home, employees who have personal use of this professional equipment, use it to surf the Internet, send or receive personal e-mails, listen to music or watch films. The study did not specify whether DVDs or videos downloaded illegally.
Yet even when the machine is a professional home, employees accepted without coercion. For 89% of them, “the professional mobile PC is not seen as an obligation that they suffer,” but “rather as an advantage that allows them to work more effectively (92%).” Nevertheless, they are 29% to take their laptop professional “as an” over the foot “that makes them work harder.”
Surprising to this account is that telecommuting is not more widespread.
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