The newly commissioned research by Plantronics highlights that despite the recession:
- 57% of UK office managers are still more likely to allow their employees to work flexibly
- 59% of UK office workers are still inclined to work from home or ask for flexible working hours
- 32% of employees feely inadequately equipped with the technology required to work from home
- 34% if managers don’t feel the technology is in place to support flexible working
- 69% of age group 55+ would be more inclined to ask for flexible hours compared to 16-25 year olds (Generation Y)
Plantronics is at the cutting edge of UC headset technology design, having just launched its new UC Savi Office technology - a premium convertible headset designed especially for office professionals requiring working collaboration across mixed audio, desk phone and PC devices. According to recent research UC technology is going to play a large part in the future investments of business and:
- By 2012 50% of all investments in large enterprise channels of communications will be part of a UC deployment
- By 2012 increased utilisation of video telepresence will divert $3.5 billion in annual revenue from the travel and hospitality industry