TALENT ATTRACTION IT
Singapore - Half of employers in Singapore have revised their corporate policies governing the use of personal devices in the workplace in their bid to attract young talent.
According to a survey by Wakefield Research which polled 17 countries across Asia, Europe, North and South America between October and November 2011, this is about one and a half times higher than the global average of 32%.
Singapore seems to have a more "sophisticated view" towards IT adoption than its Western counterparts, Craig Dower, president of Avanade Asia-Pacific, noted. While Western economies were more focused on using collaboration platforms for productivity improvement and cost reduction, Singapore companies used such tools to retain staff as well as create new products and to innovate, he explained.
Overall, results revealed companies worldwide have already began to embrace the consumerism of IT, with almost nine in 10 saying their employees are already using personal computing technologies for business purposes, and companies allocating an average of 25% of IT budgets toward managing personal devices in the workplace.
At the same time, 73% of respondents listed the growing use of personal devices as the company's top priority, and eight in 10 indicated plans to make new investments in the next 12 months to support the consumerisation of IT.
"A popular theme has been that there had been resistance to the consumerisation of IT and proliferation of devices in and by IT departments. Our research suggested that we have now passed that," Dower said. "In fact, IT departments are not only enabling this but also becoming drivers of the change - making sure that they have the necessary infrastructure, tools and policies in place."
With mobility becoming an essential part of an organisation, he noted that executives now recognise the need for certain employee groups to have the ability to from anywhere. He added that IT departments also realise they need to support the use of personal devices within the company.
Top applications used on personal devices included e-mail, social networking, customer relationship management, time and expense tracking, and enterprise resource planning. Major concerns included security risk, followed by unmanaged data.
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