The Impact of Workshifting

February 9, 2011

The Impact of Workshifting

Software vendors and the CIOs they sell to must prepare for the implications of business anywhere.

By Kimberly M. Woodward, Citrix Systems

Working optimally is as simple as ensuring a task is done in the right place by the right resource at the right time. While this may be a bit of an obvious statement, actualizing it is certainly easier said than done, particularly as “work” has become more a state of being rather than a place and time for many people.

Making it possible for employees to perform their jobs at the time and location of their choice, shifting tasks to different departments or departments to new locations, holding meetings online, and even moving computing workloads from one server or network to another require new ways of thinking for business and for IT.

As companies look to do more with their available time and resources, workshifting—moving work to a more optimal place—is becoming critical to business performance. Software and services companies should help their customers take advantage of this critical workplace trend.

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