
Industry executives and experts share their predictions for 2019. Read them in this 11th annual VMblog.com series exclusive.
Contributed by Chris O'Neal, Evangelist at Workfront
The Future of Work
The End of Email
According to the Workfront 2018
State of Work Report, email and wasteful meetings cripple productivity.
U.S. workers say they spend only 40% of their workday on primary tasks.
All of that will change in the next 5 years as organizations implement digital
tools to manage modern work. A few of the key ways that will shift:
- Better alignment of work to strategy, ensuring that
people are working on the right things that have been prioritized by the
business
- More visibility into how various contributors' work
comes together to understand how deadlines and output work together
- More focus on results--how the time spent working
actually impacts the business
- Better work planning and requirements gathering--if
focus is put into gathering what people need to accomplish when they are
planning / requesting work, there will be less need for meetings/ emails /
ad hoc work
BYODx = Bring Your Own Digital Experience
The digitization of organizations will become a commonplace
occurrence (happening over and over in iterations), and we will move into the
Digital Transformation of the individual. Each of us will become radically
digitized (at home, at work, everywhere) via hyper-personalized digital
environments that are built to serve us and follow us everywhere we go. These
personal digital environments will be built to plug into other digital environments
seamlessly, such as in a work environment, creating workflows, collaboration
paths, and amplifying individual effort.
Back to Basics
Massive automation will finally set free the most important
asset we have: the human heart. This will allow society to engage in critical
thinking at scale, to solve our biggest problems, and unleash the compassion of
our collective humanity. Because automation has shouldered formerly burdensome
and distracting tasks, humans will be set free to reach out in uniquely human
ways. Automation will free us, finally making it possible to give us back to
ourselves, and to each other.
Trust will Increase
According to the Workfront 2018 State of Work
Report, today's workers would give their coworkers 3.7 stars if they were Uber
drivers. With more visibility into work in the future, that number will go up,
as there is more understanding of what people are doing and why they are doing
it. There will also be better understanding of productivity levels in the
workplace as teams can see how their work ties into the bigger
company/department/team strategy.
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About the Author
As an
Evangelist at Workfront, a SaaS company at the forefront of modern work
management, Chris O'Neal helps shape and share Workfront's vision for
automating knowledge work and collaboration across the modern enterprise.