Analysts Explore How to Improve Digital Workplace Strategy at Gartner Digital Workplace Summit 2024,
Eighty percent of digital workplace (DW) leaders will integrate DW tools with environmental, social and governance (ESG) management and reporting tools, up from less than 5% today, by 2027 according to
'Environmental sustainability is a growing priority for CEOs and senior business executives, despite tightening economic conditions,' said
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Over the course of the next several years, regulatory requirements for ESG reporting will take effect for enterprises in the EU and the
'ESG leaders will expect IT to provide digital solutions that improve business sustainability as well as enhanced reporting from IT to meet regulatory requirements, which must be normalized and centralized into ESG management and reporting software,' said Downes.
Decision support and analytics capabilities help to identify opportunities for improvements that advance ESG capabilities, including environmental considerations, such as carbon emissions.
'The number of devices and peripherals per employee will come into focus as organizations seek to optimize carbon emissions,' said Downes. 'Organizations should work with tool vendors by prioritizing new capabilities to measure and report the sustainability data that ESG leaders require.'
To optimize carbon emissions, DW infrastructure tool vendors should add new environmental sustainability reporting capabilities to their offerings, including unified endpoint management (UEM) tools, desktop as a service (DaaS) tools and digital employee experience (DEX) management tools and digital platform conductors. Focusing on environmental sustainability capabilities will help meet energy regulation requirements and reduce costs as device life spans are extended.
Gartner clients can read more in 'Predicts 2024: Build a Sustainable and Collaborative Digital Workplace Infrastructure.'
Gartner Digital Workplace Summit
Collaboration and workplace technologies for hybrid work are being discussed at the Gartner Digital Workplace Summit taking place this week in
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