Gone Are The Days? Today's Tablets Creating Tomorrow's Workforce Standards

By Bob Ashenbrenner, Xplore Technologies

It’s impressive. In less than five years, more than 105 million U.S. workers across all industries will be considered mobile workers according to a new IDC forecast . That means that nearly three out of every four workers will no longer be reliant on the “PC” in its traditional sense. Having to come into the office to do your “real work” on a desktop PC will be a thing of the past (those days are already gone for our customers) and workers’ physical location will be insignificant to productivity and team collaboration. All thanks to today’s tablet PCs.

Now, you may be wondering why I credit all of this impending workforce transformation on mobile tablets alone when IDC’s analysts noted “the increasing affordability of smartphones and tablets combined with the growing acceptance of corporate bring your own device (BYOD) programs” as the driving factor duo.

Don’t get me wrong: We at Xplore fully recognize and appreciate the prolific influence of mobile technology as a whole on our nation’s progressive business capabilities. Our own mobile tablet platforms wouldn’t be viable if it weren’t for the innovation of our partners such as Intel, Wacom and Microsoft. The evolution of today’s mobile society is no doubt a team effort.

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