Mobile Stress

I remember when the first day at a new job meant you got a desk, a phone and access to an area associate. The two-hour orientation session taught you how to set up your voicemail, fill out your W2, and what to pay attention to in the HR manual. Two weeks later you got your business cards and were ready to attack the task assigned.

Things have changed. Executive assistants are as rare as FAX machines. To actually get ahold of someone, the number on their business card doesn’t help—you need their mobile number.
Nearly three fourths of all
knowledge workers are mobile. IDC identifies several factors driving the growth of mobile workers:

• Greater demands for productivity on an increasingly distributed workforce
• More sophisticated mobile devices
• High bandwidth wireless data services
• New tech-savvy workers entering the workforce

This is radically changing the way we work and making it harder to work together. Unlike our office phone and email, our cell phones are our own private channel: we turn them on and off as needed and give our numbers out judiciously. Our companies reimburse the costs, but we pick out the handsets and data plans. We also support ourselves.

Cell phones have given us flexibility; but made it harder to find people when you need them. According to Forrester Research most of us experience regular significant delays due to trouble locating mobile coworkers.
Worse yet, the expectation that we should be always working, or at least available, is causing significant stress.

The cc:Sync service gets teams of people back in sync regardless of where each team member is and how they communicate. It provides a central point of constantly up-to-date connections to the people you depend on for professional success. It gives you complete control over how you manage your end of the connections.

With cc:Sync I believe you can actually enjoy the flexibility your cell phone has long promised.