This document discusses the potential for wearable technology in the workplace. It explores how transparent wearable technology is within enterprises and defines wearable technology. Opinions on wearable technology are provided from various surveys and articles, finding benefits but also concerns about privacy and inequality. Examples are given of possible future applications of wearable technology in the workplace like sharing profiles during meetings and notifications through smart watches or glasses. The document raises questions around how compliant organizations have become with wearable technology and what capabilities exist today in the workplace.

1. Wearable
Technology
In the Workplace
Neville Hobson
@jangles
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3. How transparent
is wearable
technology
within the
enterprise?
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4. Public debate on #PRethics
http://www.cipr.co.uk/events/2014-07-07/debating-group-%E2%80%98wearable-technology-
ethical-nightmare-communications-marketing-and-pr-professions%
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5. 71%Of 16-To-24-Year-Olds
Want
Wearable Tech
http://www.forbes.com/sites/victorlipman/2014/09/22/71-of-16-24s-want-wearable-tech-why-dont-i-even-want-to-wear-a-watch/
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6. Defining ‘wearable tech’
• Wearable technology, fashionable
technology, wearable devices, tech togs,
or fashion electronics are clothing and
accessories incorporating computer and
advanced electronic technologies
• The designs often incorporate practical functions and features, but
may also have a purely critical or aesthetic agenda
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wearable_technology
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7. http://www.gartner.com/newsroom/id/2819918
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http://www.amazon.co.uk/Wearables-Smartwatches-Activity-
Trackers/b?ie=UTF8&node=4845975031

9. Our customers tell us that
they want the latest
information at their finger-tips
(or in this case wrist), so
being able to send
predefined notifications and
updates in line with the
user’s role and require-ments
was our focus. This
can improve processes like
work-flow approval,
invoicing, etc
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http://blogs.ifsworld.com/2014/05/putting-wearable-tech-in-the-business-context/ ”
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10. Temperature test
• 80% said wearable technology will be hugely beneficial to people
in their daily lives.
• 30% felt it will promote even more the divide between information
haves and have-nots (or between those with money and those with not
enough).
• 50% thought that wearable technology is still years away from
becoming mainstream
• 70% were certain that privacy and information confidentiality
will be a big worry as wearable technology becomes more common.
No one mentioned ethics or ethical behaviours.
http://www.nevillehobson.com/2014/07/09/way-ethics-prethics/
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11. Are we
Too
Complacent?
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12. Imagine going to a meeting with people who
do you not know. As you walk into the room,
your smart watch triggers a sensor in the
doorway, which now lets everyone in the room
know you have arrived. As a portfolio about
you flashes in front of their eyes, a quick
introduction to each person in the room
simultaneously scrolls inside your specially
enabled eyeglasses.
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” http://www.cmswire.com/cms/internet-of-things/a-vision-of-wearable-tech-in-the-workplace-026113.php
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13. What Can You Do
in Your Workplace?
Right
Now?
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14. Wearable Technology
In the Workplace
Neville Hobson
@jangles
London, September 25, 2014
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