



You can even use Passbook on Apple Watch to scan your boarding pass. Concur’s TripIt and Apple’s Passbook take it a step farther, adding hotel information to flight itinerary glances.Use airline apps, like British Airways and Fly Delta, to see your itinerary and gate information at a glance.A few of my favorite Apple Watch travel tips: This is where the world of apps really comes into play.

Take control of the business travel chaos. I can take a peek at incoming calls, see if an email needs immediate attention or respond to my daughter’s text with a happy-face emoticon-all without staring rudely at a screen. I love Apple Watch notifications for just this purpose. That said, work doesn’t stop because you’ve blocked out time on your calendar. Maybe it’s because of my Southern-mother upbringing, but if it’s important enough to drop everything and spend 30 minutes face-to-face, it’s important enough to be 100% engaged.
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Although the Watch audio works fine for personal communication, I still take professional calls on my iPhone to avoid any mishaps. The meeting shows up on the watch face, you click it and you’re dialed in. Calendaring apps like MobileDay or Agenday rid our lives of complicated passcodes and dial-in numbers. But it’s also a massive pain in the … workday. Like, now.Ĭonference calls and online meetings are how we convene in the modern business world. On the personal side, this also helps me manage the near-constant “Mom, can I…?” texts from my kiddos and set reminders to take out the trash on Wednesday nights. I can also set reminders to call a coworker, make a lunch reservation or submit my expense report. The text messaging and email dictation is fantastic, turning rush hour from wasted to productive opportunities for short email responses. The voice input on the Apple Watch might be my favorite interactive feature of all, especially because I’m stuck in Atlanta traffic longer than I care to admit. Here are seven ways smartwatches boost work productivity: 1. But with a plethora of enterprise apps available in the Apple App Store and Google Play Store, IT is seeing an influx of smart, connected devices enter into the workplace-particularly smartwatches.Īs my smartwatch of choice, my Apple Watch productivity game is changing my daily routine for the better. We can monitor our heartbeat, calories, etc. We can track fitness activities throughout the day, such as my husband’s (annoying) obsession with Apple Watch’s reminder to stand up every hour. The beauty of a smartwatch is that it straddles both IoT worlds: consumer and business. For the majority of us, however, IoT primarily means Fitbit or Nike FuelBand-two health and fitness devices that, according to the same study, snagged approximately 52% of the consumer wearables market in 2015.īut since we spend at least a third of our days working, can IoT and wearable devices make us more productive, efficient workers? Absolutely, thanks to connected devices like the Apple Watch, which cornered 52% of the global smartwatch market last year. A Forrester Research study from last September reported that 1-in-5 surveyed adults use a wearable device. Today, the consumer has a corner on IoT device adoption. Talk abounds about the untapped potential of the Internet of Things ( IoT) at work, but we’re clearly still in early days. Think wearables are only for health and fitness? Think again, fellow workers of the world.
