While mobile devices give many digital workplace employees access to content, data and enterprise unified communications while outside the enterprise, it appears that they have a long way to go before users will be able to work using only mobile devices.
While the discussion around the role of mobile devices has been sidetracked by the pandemic and the emergence of millions of remote offices in the home, the pace of development and frequency of releases indicates that both app and device developers continue to develop with an eye to a post pandemic world.
Mobile For Productivity
Recently, Microsoft released a bunch of new mobile apps for Microsoft that help with everyday tasks and commitments to help workers meet business goals and tasks outside the workplace and even traveling. According to a blog about the releases, which unveiled Outlook for iOS with conversational AI technology and the ability to collaborate around user-created video, the new additions are designed to replicate as far as possible what can be done from a laptop or desktop. âOur apps provide the ability for you to transform and collaborate around modern multimedia content and help provide the privacy and protection you need to safely express yourself from your mobile devices,â the blog reads.