A digital workplace allows employees to work from anywhere, anytime and on any device. It provides applications, information, mobility and collaboration tools tailored to each employee's role and tasks. Key aspects of a digital workplace include mobile access, enterprise social networking, business processes designed for collaboration, and communication tools. Digital working offers employees freedom, new opportunities, and smarter, better ways of working. It can boost productivity, attract and retain talent, and increase employee engagement and revenues. To implement a digital workplace, organizations need a clear vision and strategy aligned with business goals, as well as efforts to promote a culture of autonomy, accountability and employee empowerment.

1. Digital working is smarter working

2. What is a Digital Workplace?
• A digital workplace is
a virtual equivalent to
the physical
workplace

3. What is a Digital Workplace?
• It’s a collection tools
& process, that
provides applications,
information, mobility
and collaboration that
is tailored to an
individual employee’s
role, location and
tasks

4. What is a Digital Workplace?
• That allows
employees to do their
work from anywhere,
anytime and on any
device.

5. What is Digital Workplace?
• The 4 Basic factors
– Mobile devices
– Social Networking
– Business processes
– Communication tools
& Applications

6. Digitally Working is having…..
• Mobile access
– allows employees to
work from anywhere,
at any time and on any
device

7. Digitally Working is having…..
• Enterprise Social Networking
– that enables and supports collaboration across
departments, groups, divisions from anywhere

8. Digitally Working is having…..
• Business processes
– that are designed to
support the use of
collaboration tools to
enhance co-editing,
version control,
synchronisation and
improve workflow

9. Digitally Working is having…..
• Communications tools
& Applications
– that allow employees
to work, communicate
and engage with co-
workers and external
partners on demand
from anywhere

10. Digitally working offers….
• Freedom
• New opportunities
• Working smarter and
better

11. Digitally working offers….
• It can increase
revenues, attract and
retain employee talent
– whilst boost employee
agility, engagement,
productivity and
working health

12. Digitally working can…
• Talent attraction
– 64% of employees would opt for a lower paying job if they could
work away from the office
• Employee productivity
– organizations with strong online social networks are 7% more
productive than those without
• Employee satisfaction
– organizations that installed social media tools internally found a
median 20% increase in employee satisfaction
• Employee retention
– when employee engagement increases, there is a corresponding
increase in employee retention by up to 87%

13. Where to start……
• Understanding the
Vision
• Creating a Digital
Strategy & Map
• Employee
Engagement

14. Your Vision
• Understand and establish
your digital workplace
vision
– The why, what and how
– The expectations, risks,
assumptions &
dependences
– Do these connect with the
organisation's goals and
values as the sources of
inspiration of the digital
workplace transformation?

15. Strategy
• Create your digital
workplace strategy
It must be aligned to:
The Business goals &
objectives
Roles & relationships
Tasks & technologies
Employee engagement
Ref: Deloitte’s digital workplace
diagram 2011

16. Strategy - Map

17. Employee Engagement
• Promote a corporate
culture of Autonomy,
Accountability and
Empowerment
– This is the core of the
digital workplace initiative
because the new ways of
working require
behavioural changes as
employees collaborate,
take on challenges and
provide local leadership to
redesign the workplace.

18. Employee Engagement - 3 Cs
• Connect
• Communicate
• Collaborate
– So I can understand,
support, and make a
difference
But it’s Actions that
changes things

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20. References
• Digital Workplace Group: The Digital
Workplace Map
• Deloitte: The Digital Workplace: Think,
share, do.
• Deloitte: Digital workplace and culture:
How digital technologies are changing the
workforce and how enterprises can adapt
and evolve.