How Technology Has Changed The Workplace | Branded Content | Tech Today and Tomorrow | Episode 3

The whole way people work is changing.

People sitting in meetings for eight hours,

working 15 hour days,

those days are gone.

In the past, all businesses needed

was a physical office and a data center.

Today, advanced technologies have made it possible

to work more efficiently and help us

tap into our full potential.

The workplace has changed significantly

over the last 10 years,

but really the trend has been going

for the last 25 years.

[Lewis Richards] The big shift was moving from where

the most powerful computer provided to you

was provided by the IT Department.

Where consumerization means the more powerful technology

is the stuff you have yourself.

We've been able to ignore technology for the 20 years.

No, I don't think you can ignore these kind of enhancements.

It's going to be too much of an impact on us.

[Marc Wilkinson] With the advent of the smart phone,

the world really started changing much much faster.

So, we seen this complete pivot on one size fits all,

to now meeting my desires, my choice and what I need.

I think the big shift has been out of this model

where work is this monolithic homogeneous place

where you just go and you sit at your desk

and you put your head down and you work

and you clock out after eight hours,

and that's it.

The physical office is changing it's role.

It now needs to be much more about group

and areas where people can collaborate,

and less about the individual cube, the individual office.

[Joshua Emig] I think we work as an amazing sort of

an exemplar of this shift.

Where, people need to be part of a community,

where people are more focused on the culture and the

people that they're surrounded with in the workplace.

There's a balance that you need to strike

between having people connected and face to face

and involved and engaged in the culture

of a company or a workplace,

along with the ability to break away

when they need to break away.

I think we have arrived at a better understanding

of what people actually need to be successful.

I think we're experiencing a revolution.

We moved from paper to computers,

from computers to the web,

web to mobile,

and now we're moving from mobile

into this conversational interface.

[Lewis Richards] The collaborating aspects of office

shifted within the enterprise.

The main benefit, that anybody can work anywhere,

provided they have a data connection.

And the simple fact is you've never ever had

so much capability.

[Ali Rayl] The ability to have digital tools

that allow you to have that digital workspace

are the things that companies continue to experiment with.

[Amir Shevat] People communicate inside Slack

and share a lot of information there.

So, things like, how do we onboard a person

to know everything they need to know in order to

be productive and a team.

It allows you to focus on your work

and be much more effective with your communication

but also with every aspect of your work.

[Narrator] The cloud allows workers to tap into

a wide range of services and resources over the internet

such as payroll, storage, and benefits.

No longer needing to rely

on their own company's IT Department.

Bypassing a company's IT Department

is sometimes referred to as shadow IT.

[Mark Wilkinson] So what we're seeing is this shift from

your centralized, hardened, physical data centers

to now the data is in close proximity to the

cloud services that are using it.

So we've gone from bring your own device

all the way to bring your own services,

and soon it's going to be how we mesh them together.

So zenefits is revolutionizing the way that

we use programs for work.

It's taking the old school payroll,

human capital management systems, benefits,

and reinventing those to be digitized

and available wherever your want, however you want

to power the talent economy.

[Marc Wilkinson] So in the enterprise,

what we're seeing is

people applying shadow IT in innovative ways,

and I think it's really rewarding to see

in the next (mumbles).

We've got all this bandwidth,

all this compute at our disposal now,

that abundance is now being pushed in to how we do work.

It's a world of promise,

and it's a world of wonder.

And so it's a big box of Lego bricks and we should

all be able to have the skills to plug things together.

[Mark Wilkinson] There is such potential

about how we can change

the way we communicate, collaborate.

And so I think the future is actually going to be

one where we actually enable that type of engagement.