Displaying items by tag: Productivity

Working from home has come at a cost to their productivity for some home workers, with a new survey finding that 48% of respondents reporting their work productivity decreasing.

BlackBerry's Spark Suite is now recognised as an "Android Enterprise Recommended Solution", with the suite including comprehensive Unified Endpoint Security and Management tools to deliver better security alongside the foundation for "mobility driven business transformation".

Australian farmers and miners could become less competitive than their global rivals unless a national plan is developed to expedite 5G coverage to rural and regional Australia, according to a new report jointly commissioned by Huawei Australia and the Telecommunications Association TelSoc.

Communications workflow platform provider Whispir has recorded its strongest quarterly customer growth ever for the first quarter ending 30 September 2020, onboarding 35 net new customers during the quarter to bring its total customer count to 665.

Software applications, digital solutions and managed services vendor Civica has announced that Tasmania’s Glenorchy City Council and Victoria’s Prestige Paving have shifted critical asset management to the cloud, in moves designed to drive greater productivity and efficiencies in their operations.

The building of the National Broadband Network will create a total of 25,000 jobs across the economy in two years, including almost 10,000 in regional Australia, according to newly released economic impact analysis.

Zoho Workplace combines collaboration, productivity, and communications tools and integrates them into other business processes, the company claims.

Australian online book retailer Booktopia has deployed Zebra’s TC8000 touch mobile computers in a move designed to increase the productivity and accuracy of its warehouse operations.

National Broadband Network connectivity has a critical role to play in supporting economic growth across Australia’s agriculture sector now and into the future, according to a new research report, which estimates it could add $15.6 billion to the value of the farming, forestry and fishery sectors.

Embracing solutions which are compatible with the remote working model would boost productivity for accounting and finance departments which have been forced to decentralise

GUEST OPINION by Claudia Pirko, ANZ Regional Vice President, BlackLine:  It’s been a busy few months for Australian finance and accounting leaders.

Sixty-five percent of Australian and New Zealand IT professionals have experienced disruptions or outages when working remotely during the COVID-19 pandemic, a higher number than their counterparts around the world, according to a new study.

Australia’s telecoms industry association, the Telecommunications Society (TelSoc), has put its support behind the Federal Government’s creation of the Broadband Advisory Council which the government says is designed to ‘maximise’ the country’s economic upside and increase digital connectivity.

PRODUCT ANNOUNCEMENT  Ricoh, a leading provider of smart workplace technology, has launched PaperCut 20.0 in Australia, enabling organisations to extend the capabilities of their Ricoh devices in line with their own business growth.

The Federal Government says the growing shift to use of online services by Australians during the COVID 19 pandemic demonstrates the critical role of the National Broadband Network (NBN) in boosting the nation’s productivity, connectivity and social cohesion.

Software developers are finding their productivity and wellbeing has been hit as a result of COVID-19, according to a new worldwide study led by the University of Adelaide’s School of Computer Science in collaboration with Dalhousie University in Canada.

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GUEST OPINION by Ashley Diffey, Ping Identity: As the number of infections rises around the world, many companies have directed their employees to work from home as a cautionary measure in an effort to assist in flattening the curve. What at first was seen as a short term situation is being extended without a known or defined end date.

More than two-thirds (70%) of Australian workers believe their productivity is the same or higher when working from home compared to an office environment, with many of them believing that this new form of working will become much more important when emerging from coronavirus than before.

GUEST CONTRIBUTION: As Australian businesses adapt to the changing dynamics of Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19), the unprecedented shift toward remote working is creating a mass exodus of employees out of branch offices into their homes. Employees are quickly having to adapt to communicating and collaborating in new ways to maintain business productivity.

GUEST CONTRIBUTION* by Adam Fuoss, vice president technical sales Silver Peak: As Australian businesses adapt to the changing dynamics of Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19), the unprecedented shift toward remote working is creating a mass exodus of employees out of branch offices into their homes. Employees are quickly having to adapt to communicating and collaborating in new ways to maintain business productivity.