By now, professionals across industries and business sectors know that technology is quickly transforming the modern-day workplace. And if they want to remain competitive, they must adopt tech-friendly workplace cultures.
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Here are seven critical elements of a tech-friendly workplace culture.
1. Cloud-Based and Mobile Technology
With the rise of the gig economy, remote employees, and globally based teams, it is imperative that all organizations embrace cloud-based platforms, systems, and apps to endorse a tech-friendly workplace culture. And it’s important they also establish and implement mobile technology so everyone can stay connected via technology applications while remote and on the go.
2. People-Centric Attitudes and Practices
With the growing popularity of artificial intelligence, machine learning, and automation, human intelligence and intelligence about human behavior are becoming essential to tech-friendly workplaces. Apps, mobile-based programs and projects, etc., should still be based on people, what they care about, their user experiences, and how they behave if they’re to be effective and successful.
3. Company Culture of Learning and Innovation
Employees and leaders across an organization must be willing to continually learn how to use and implement new platforms, systems, and technologies to remain tech-friendly and innovative because new technologies are constantly being developed for the modern-day workforce.
4. Transparent Company Culture
If your organization wants to remain tech-friendly, it must also endorse a culture of transparency where employees can share data and information easily with one another, as well as collaborate on projects via cloud-based technology.
5. High-Quality Leadership
Endorsing any type of company culture across an organization is impossible without high-quality leadership. Leaders who want their workplaces to be more tech-friendly must realize that a tech-friendly workplace culture will start with them and what they do.
6. Change Management Initiatives
Change is inevitable in most workplaces across industries due to changes in technology and technological innovations. And if you want your workplace to be tech-friendly, you’ll want to make sure your employees are ready to handle change well and quickly on a consistent basis.
7. Continuously Updated L&D
Most importantly, if you want your organization to own a truly tech-friendly workplace culture, it must continually update its learning and development (L&D) programs and initiatives to upskill its employees in the most relevant tech-related skills.