Dan Ness, Principal Analyst, MetaFacts, September 14, 2022
Summary
Employees working from home have unique challenges in getting work done while often using personal and employer-provided devices. While seeking to balance their work and personal lives, they are also finding new ways to use their devices. A substantial share regularly does TikTok-type work – creating videos for work and personal purposes.
This MetaFAQs reports on the top 10 activities employees that work from home do with their connected devices: smartphones, computers, and tablets. It also identifies which activities are done more often than the average online adult.
Most employees rely on smartphones, stay productive with computers
- Around the world, most employees working from home use their connected devices to stay in touch, shop, have fun, and get work done
- They use their various and multiple devices differently
- Most use computers for their work-related activities
- Most employees use smartphones for photo-related social activities, personal phone calls, and shopping
- Computers are used for work email, collaboration, and writing
- Tablets, when used, are used for passive activities such as watching videos or movies
Global employees are unique in what they do
- Employees working from home are three times more likely than the average online adult to be actively creating
- Nearly three times as many create videos for work purposes, use professional creative software, or create graphics/presentations
- These employees are productive and facile, with many using both their smartphones and computers for these activities, more so than the average online adult
- They are using computers more often for social networking and communication
- They are using tablets more often for meetings, video calls, and personal creativity
American employees working from home mostly compartmentalize
- Most American employees working from home use smartphones, computers, and tablets for personal email and keep their work email, files, and issues on their computer
- Most use their connected devices for communication and photos
- Smartphones are their primary platform for voice and video calls
- More use computers for writing and collaboration
- These employees that use tablets use them for shopping, reading, watching videos/movies, and playing games
American employees are actively creative with multiple types of devices
- American employees working from home are nearly twice a likely as the average online American adult to be actively creating content
- Their creative activities include graphics/presentations, videos, and professional creative software
- Work communication is more strongly computer-oriented
- They are using tablets more than the average adult also for creative activities as well as work communication
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Indexing
Lenses: Activities; Work/Life Balance
Tables: ACTSxDEVTYPE
Tags: Activities, Communication, Computers, Devices, Employees, Meetings, PCs, Smartphones, Tablets, Teleworking, Video calling, Video calls, Videoconferencing, Webcam, Work-related activities, Zoom
Waves: TUP 2022
Item: TUP_doc_2022_0914_wfha
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