Mobile computing has become a strategic asset for Intel. Wireless-enabled notebooks increase the productivity per average employee by more than five percent and help to create a more efficient work environment. Today, approximately 80 percent of Intel employees use a notebook as their primary business tool.

Now we are working to take the mobility of our workers to the next level. Mobile technologies such as PC-based telephony, unified communications, and Voice over IP (VoIP) have matured, and now enable a level of mobility that was not possible before. With these advances, we decided it was time to take a fresh look at our mobile strategy.

The result is a major upgrade of our mobile computing solutions coupled with a redesign of our physical office space. The combination provides a more dynamic and connected work environment, one that gives employees greater flexibility and fosters more spontaneous interaction and collaboration. To date, we have deployed this new work environment to approximately one thousand Intel employees in three separate locations and are evaluating these pilot implementations to plan our next steps.

This white paper describes our experience in designing and deploying the new mobile work environments, and in helping our employees make the transition. It will be useful for IT and business decision makers looking for ways to increase the value of mobility in their own businesses so they can reduce operating costs and improve the productivity, responsiveness, and satisfaction of their employees