Dive Brief:

• According to Part I of the 2015 Mobile Trends in the Workplace survey released by theEMPLOYEEapp, many businesses struggle to address the needs of on-the-go employees.
• The study found that there is a direct correlation between employee engagement, efficiency and the ability to easily access company information via mobile. 62% of employees said that easy access to company information directly affects job satisfaction and half (51%) said they are more productive when they are able to do so through a mobile device.
• Notwithstanding the important role smartphones and tablets are playing in the workplace, more than one-third (41%) indicated they are unable to access company documents and information from their mobile device; 36% said they had trouble easily accessing company documents outside of the office or are unable to do so at all.

Dive Insight:

Jeff Corbin, founder and CEO of theEMPLOYEEapp, which allows any organization to have its own app on Apple'sApp Store and the Google Play, says there is a real divide between how employees want to utilize mobile technology for work and the tools and solutions businesses currently have in place to support them.

"Since iPhone, iPad and Android devices have become the lifeline for almost everyone and most corporate Intranets were not developed for the small screens of these devices, the results of our survey suggest that employers, to the extent they aren't already, need to consider what their mobile communications strategy is and how they can utilize the technology to improve employee efficiency as well as job satisfaction," he explains.