The consumerization of IT
has wrought profound security issues and changes on how and where employees
work. To unerstand the magnitude of this transformation, consider these
statistics:
- 3 out of 5 workers say they no longer need to be in the office to be productive.
- The average mobile worker is now carrying 3.5 devices, up from 2.7 devices in 2011.
- 64% of mobile users use a tablet for work, as of March 2012. Based on purchasing predictions from users, that number likely reached 80% by October 2012.
- Apple iPhones and iPads and Google Android devices - all of them consumer devices - now make up more than 70% of the mobile devices used by mobilworkers.
- Mobile workers are using smartphones for email, web conferencing, social media for work, accessing and editing Office documents, and note-taking.
- In 2010, web-based email usage declined 6%, while mobile email access rose 36%
