Want your boss to buy you an iPad? Better start working in finance…
While it’s pretty widely accepted that the iPad isn’t the most ideal device for doing work on, dont tell the bigwigs over in the financial services: if you’re working in that particular job sector, you’re more likely than anyone else to be given a free iPad for working on by your boss than anyone else.
A new survey of over 4,000 enterprise customers carried out by Good Technology shows that almost 37% of financial services firms had handed out between one and 1,000 iPads to their employees, compared to 11.4% of IT firms, 10.5% of healthcare organizations and 8.8% legal firms.
“We believe these industries are embracing the iPad because its unique design makes it easier to perform time-sensitive, mission-critical tasks,” said John Herrema, Good Technology’s senior vice president of corporate strategy.
It may not have multi-tasking or print capabilities (yet!), but the figures speak for themselves: enterprise companies are starting to take the iPad seriously as a work tool. If you’re jammy enough to bag yourself a free one, just make sure the boss doesn’t catch you ploughing through a session of Angry Birds and you should be fine.
Now where’s my boss’ phone number…
Via: Enterprise Mobile Today
