HP Innovation Journal Issue 10: Fall 2018 | Page 14
OneLife is an HP concept that guides how
we think about, design and deliver new
products. We focus on delivering dependable
mobility, constant connectivity and
powerful devices with sleek designs.
TECHNOLOGY SERVING EVERY PART OF OUR LIVES WORKING FROM ANYWHERE, ANYTIME
Technology enables us to do our jobs, collaborate with others
and focus on things that are critical to our productivity.
Technology at home allows us to connect with others, carry
out everyday tasks and satisfy our need for entertainment. Work is no longer a place you go to; it’s just a thing you do.
Today we can’t think about work as a physical place, but
instead, as an activity that is interspersed in our day. In 2016,
in fact, 30 to 40% 2 of workers telecommuted for at least some
portion of their workweek.
Our current expectations for these devices are
created by past experiences. Historically, it was
expected that a personal computer (PC) would
take several minutes to start up and would
last only a few hours. We were all okay with a
PC’s imperfect display and poor sound because
we didn’t expect anything else. Once the
smartphone was widely adopted, we expected
all our devices to turn on immediately and last
all day. Now we also expect TV-level resolution
and amazing sound.
And those expectations follow us throughout the day.
At home, most electronics are wireless, and if there are
cords, they’re hidden. Home technology is designed to look
more like a work of art. This expectation of technology has
become commonplace. At work, we expect technology to
offer us an even better experience than we have at home.
And at home, according to comScore, over 50% of searches
are now done with our voice instead of our fingers. Due to that
rapid adoption, we asked, why not combine the voice search
and stationary devices into something that’s more functional
and adapted to our new behaviors? That’s why we were
the first to put Alexa on a PC .1
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Gone is the Monday through Friday, 8-to-5 work schedule.
The increase in millennials and Generation Zers in the
workforce is leading us to a separation of home and work
different than it was 15 t0 20 years ago. We now live an ever-
connected lifestyle, where we can work anywhere, anytime.
This idea has profound implications for the products and
services we provide—what we make, how we make it and what
we enable.
We recently announced our G5 EliteBook 800 mobile
workstations. These PCs excel as commercial and consumer
devices. The durable laptops include an award-winning
aluminum design, increased screen size and eighth-
generation Intel vPro processors, and are the first laptops
to include a noise-canceling, world-facing microphone, making
collaboration easier.
Collaboration is already an integral aspect of work. Due to
rapid prototyping and innovation cycles, collaboration is
essential, and its importance will only continue to grow. As
the gig economy expands, there will be more freelancers and
less office space dedicated to full-time employees. Workers
will need devices and services that move seamlessly between
their home life and job.
We’ve also transformed how we design our products at HP,
viewing technology as an aspect of fashion. The PC you pull
out at your local coffee shop has badge value. It has emotional
meaning. If employees are given clunky and unattractive
devices, they’ll never use them. Instead, they’ll use their