As workplace demographics are transforming, employers struggle to match the evolving needs of a multi-generational workforce. New digital technologies have improved the way we analyze data, collaborate with employees, communicate and make decisions.

The rise of social networking, mobile, data and cloud technology has changed every aspect of our personal and business lives, making them more connected by the day. Most of these technologies undergo enhancements as better technologies arise leading to constant disruption. As more and more organizations evolve, innovation will continue to transform work culture and have a deep impact on today’s digital workplace environment.

However, adapting to the latest digital transformation trends in the workplace has always been a challenge for organizations across the globe. Business leaders are on a constant run to acclimatize to a sustainable digital practice i.e; to upgrade to latest or relevant business strategy; which would be a feasible solution in the long haul.

But keeping abreast of changes in the market and adopting newer trends that will produce favourable business outcomes is critical. In this blog, we’re going to preview digital workplace trends that are going to have the most impact on enterprises this year.

DIGITAL WORKPLACE TREND
PROGRESSIVE EMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENT
At this moment, the enterprise world is buzzing with new technological advancements influencing employee engagement and experience in the workplace. Modernizing your employee culture to match progressive work environments helps maximize productivity. Technologies associated with digital initiatives can have a transformational impact on employee experience impacting overall employee satisfaction.

If your employees are not actively adapting to available technologies which are in place as a part of your IT strategy, you might likely observe a dip in productivity.

Failing to provide employees with advanced technologies may cause them to become disassociated from strategic organizational initiatives.

Either of the situations may result in a break down of the planned IT initiatives.

Embrace the latest technologies in the workplace and encourage your employees to utilize these technologies according to their work accomplishments. For example, enabling your employees to leverage the latest trend of AI-powered chatbot to dig in information from your existing intranets/applications by taking advantage of conversational interfaces.

Take the time and make the investments needed to balance employee expectations with business needs to ensure they are equally satisfied and engaged.

DIGITAL WORKPLACE TREND
INCREASINGLY INTELLIGENT APPLICATIONS
We expect to see an increasing number of organizations begin leveraging artificial intelligence in most of their business applications, in full force, to improve user experience or streamline existing business processes.

The initial step to deploy AI skill involves assessing the maturity and readiness of your business applications. Enterprise architecture and innovation leaders have to identify the use cases to realize the potential AI can bring in.

Automate answering your repetitive mundane tasks with the help of AI-powered chatbots. Chatbots are designed to deliver a conversational user experience in the business applications with a minimum learning curve. Apart from automating responses, this trend can also help in addressing support outages, adoption issues and user satisfaction issues in a prominent way.

DIGITAL WORKPLACE TREND
2019 IS THE BEGINNING OF THE GEN Z TAKEOVER
Millennials are more likely to use applications with advanced technologies and flexibility. Additionally, the new generation after millennials, Gen Z, are true digital natives and their preferences will dictate the future of a business’ success for years to come.

As a foundation step, every organization has to formulate a digital transformation strategy that can revolutionize traditional business models and work culture to match “digital everything” expectations of current and next generations.