Mexico. We currently live in a society where people are choosing to rent cars or houses instead of buying them, this is the core of the sharing economy. The concept of making money renting real estate or services may have existed before, but not on such a large scale, the sharing economy is rethinking how companies are growing.
The sharing or collaborative economy is an economic model where technologies allow people to get what they need from each other, and not from centralized institutions. This means we can now rent someone's living room for a day or two, rent someone else's bike for a couple of hours, or even take a walk with someone's pet, all for a rental price.
Even a few years ago, renting a room or a car was unthinkable, but now large companies are taking over the market because of this new business model. Millennials undoubtedly play an important role, their love for things on-demand, in addition to their sober mentality, generates a perfect environment for the collaborative economy.
We are living in an era where businesses are being consumer-driven and perhaps this is the biggest reason the sharing economy is here to stay.
Changes in the workplace
Remote work and telecommuting has taken off, companies are already getting used to the idea that some of their workers work outside their offices. Now, let's take a look at this situation through the lens of the sharing economy: with companies looking to find temporary resources that can meet the changing demands of the business, freelancers could replace a large portion of full-time professionals in the future. Why? Because at the heart of this practice, is the concept of sharing resources and when it comes to workplaces, there's so much going on that it's impossible to predict where they're headed.
In this context and following the philosophy of collaboration, Ricoh Mexicana introduces the concept of The Huddle Room with the aim of empowering the mobile workforce with state-of-the-art equipment and technologies specifically designed for maximum collaboration, creativity and for the communication needs between workers, customers, business partners and suppliers.
Some of the benefits of having a Huddle Room is the integration and teamwork without requiring scheduling systems to separate the room because it is used when it is available so it is common for a company to have several Huddle Room style rooms. At the same time, it allows employees to focus and take advantage of technology to be more efficient and also does not require an expensive implementation and is easy to use.
With demand moving so fast and technology proliferating at breakneck speed, it's not only important that companies start to see and adopt this methodology, it will also be imperative that they commit to removing anything from their company that is deemed obsolete.
Text written by Ricoh Mexicana.
