At Web Media 360 we have been paying particular attention to progress of the new Anywhere Working initiative; launched last November by a consortium of top industry players, including Microsoft, with the active support of the UK government.
Anywhere Working is designed to help enterprises make the best use of new technology in order to reduce their dependence on employees having to travel to work or to attend meetings.
The consortium has now set up an online portal which enterprises can use to access further information and guidance to help them participate in the initiative, and to provide them with other relevant items such as product purchase incentives.
The launch of the portal presages a planned push for the initiative during Anywhere Working Week, which kicks off on 27th February.
Commenting on Microsoft’s commitment to Anywhere Working, the corporation’s UK managing director, Gordon Frazer, said:
“It’s no longer viable for businesses to stick to rigid, inefficient ways of working if they want to compete successfully in the market”.
Frazer revealed that the consortium had received: “fantastic feedback from people who want to learn how to work in a more dynamic and collaborative environment, anytime, anywhere”.
Microsoft has of course itself taken huge strides towards helping enterprises achieve this goal; through, for example, the launch last year of Microsoft Office 365 – its online suite of applications and platforms that includes SharePoint, the globally popular solution which so many of our clients use for their file storage and collaboration needs.
