All Data, Everywhere, All at Once: Can 5G Create the Perfect Future Workspace?

NORTHAMPTON, MA / ACCESSWIRE / May 30, 2023 / Ericsson

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Originally published by Ericsson

• The rise of new hybrid working, hub working, and networking models are raising demands on employers to make the workplace more experiential, human centric and activity based.
• 5G-enabled zero energy devices will make it possible to deploy up to 10x more sensors in the workplace - creating a massive data mesh that enables hyper-personal human building interaction through technologies such as extended reality, human insight AI and digital twins.

When was the last time you thought about quitting your job?

Last year in the US, a record fifty million people called time on their jobs for good, and many more worldwide.

For many, the seeds for this ‘big quit' were sowed throughout the pandemic - where in many cases the pressures of work and home didn't just blur, they collided.

The fallout has shaked today's workplaces to the core. While the word ‘burnout' has increased by 100 percent on Glassdoor in the past two years alone, a global ‘quit-tok' trend has raised concerns over employee mental health and a growing ‘she-cession' in the workplace. Much of this may be anecdotal, but the numbers are not: following the pandemic, women were three times less likely to regain lost jobs in the US labor market compared to men.

These statistics are no trend or coincidence. They are systemic flaws in a workplace model that has not kept pace with post-pandemic labor market demands. Such traditional models need structural change to meet the needs of today's and future labor markets, as well as laying a runway for business growth.

New hybrid-, hub-, and networking-based models are the foundation to make that happen. Today, the first step to hybrid working models is slowly taking place across employers, with 39 percent of global office workers expected to work hybrid by the end of 2023, and as many as 71 percent in the US.

But that's not all that's needed. With those fundaments in place, businesses can begin to break free from the office and redefine their future workspace and employee experience - enhanced by hyper-personal human building interaction and supported by real-time data.

On the technology side, the high-performance capabilities, deployment agility and multi-compute possibilities of mobile networks - combined with the massive scale of tomorrow's low- and zero-energy devices - will power this evolution.