Think about the work you can do in about an hour. If you’re focused and that time is uninterrupted, you can probably get a lot accomplished and feel like you’ve succeeded in creating value for your organization.

But what if that is the only focused time you have to get meaningful work done? The rest of your day? Well, it gets eaten away by incessant notifications and alerts, cumbersome business processes that take half a dozen steps (and require access to half a dozen apps) to complete, and deep dives for essential information that really should be at your fingertips.

That doesn’t sound like a successful day, but that’s what employees deal with in the modern workplace. They spend just 15 percent of their time — 1.2 hours — each day doing the work they want to do and are paid to do. So, it’s no surprise that 87 percent of employees worldwide report that they’re not engaged at work, and two-thirds have experienced burnout on the job.

The tools we use at work have not kept pace with the consumer technology we’ve embraced outside the office. Sure, enterprise technologies are sophisticated and powerful and deliver insights and capabilities that were unimaginable a decade ago. But they’ve also added a new level of complexity and a litany of disruptions that get in the way of us conducting the mindful work that matters most, leading to employee frustration and disengagement.

Now, with the general availability of enhanced intelligent capabilities of Citrix Workspace, we can help to change that, giving employees an easy-to-use solution that can remove the noise from their day and free up the space to do meaningful, creative, and innovative work. Citrix Workspace can streamline the workday for employees by organizing, guiding, and automating work in an intelligent and personal way, transforming the employee experience.

Organizing Work

Employees spend about 20 percent of their time searching for the information they need to do their jobs. Citrix Workspace gives them simple, single sign-on access to all the apps, content, and business services they need to get work done, eliminating the context switching that derails productivity. And IT admins not only get the secure access controls to protect their organization’s valuable assets, they have visibility into how employees are using their workspaces and the power and flexibility to support changing works styles.

Guiding Work

Consider your personal digital life. It’s probably organized around feeds that surface the news you need to know, the photos and updates from family and friends you need to see, and the tasks you need to do. The intelligent capabilities in Citrix Workspace deliver a personalized “work feed” that doesn’t just serve up reminders of what needs to get done. It reaches into enterprise apps and surfaces the insights and tasks employees need to make decisions and get work done. Each work card is an actual microapp, empowering employees to execute a task quickly within the workspace. No more wracking your brain to remember countless passwords or navigating different interfaces and pages of enterprise apps. Get just the insights and tasks you need at your fingertips. So you can get work done and get on with their day. On top of that, Citrix Workspace’s virtual assistance capability can deliver immediate access to relevant content and business data. And employees don’t have to learn new tools to make all this happen. Citrix Workspace integrates with existing technologies to support and enhance preferred ways of work.

Automating Work

There are some things you have to do over and over again. They might not be difficult to complete but they take up time. And if there’s enough of them on your plate, they can take up a lot of time. Citrix Workspace uses machine learning to simplify and automate batch repetitive tasks and workflows. It can accommodate various workstyles and be personalized for an employee’s needs and preferences, minimizing the time those common activities take up and enabling them to be resolved with a single click. And we’ve made it easy to build microapps that that can make workflows more efficient and employees more productive.

Innovating with Microapps

Let’s be honest. Enterprise applications are designed for power users. The rest of us use less than 10 percent of the features in a given app. Navigating their complexity to complete a simple task can be a major time suck. Microapps serve the rest of us, delivering the functionality we need — and only that functionality.

Citrix Workspace provides a platform for microapps that streamline functionality from these complex applications, enabling employees to complete tasks quickly, to get the insights and information they need, and to be more productive. With general availability of the intelligent capabilities, we’re including out-of-the-box integrations with apps from SAP, Microsoft, Google G-Suite, Salesforce, Workday, Atlassian, Zendesk, Tableau, and ServiceNow. That’s in addition to more than 100 pre-configured microapps that companies can use to:

  • Automate common business tasks
  • Deliver essential information to an employee’s personalized work feed
  • Create single-purpose steps to simplify the completion of routine tasks
  • Build personal workflows for individual employees to help them focus on meaningful work

At Citrix, we believe in choice, and with Citrix Workspace, you don’t have to leave legacy and homegrown systems behind to make microapps available to employees. We’ve designed it to include a low-code microapp builder that enables customization, as well as a generic web services connector and developer portal that supports custom development. We saw what was possible at our first-ever Citrix Converge developers conference, where attendees built and demoed 15 microapps for the Citrix Workspace platform in a single afternoon. The future of work is bright indeed.

Transforming the Employee Experience

Employees have the upper hand in a tight labor market where there’s fierce competition for the best talent and a global shortage of 85 million workers on the horizon. They dictate the terms, and they want freedom to work when, where, and how they want. Organizations can’t let complex technologies get in their way.

An intelligent digital workspace gives employees the personalized experience they need to be their most productive and to do the work that matters. It lessens the burden of busy work and dampens distractions that pull them away from what they were hired to do. It takes a user-centric approach that puts people first and enables employees to deliver value to the organization and feel good about the work they do. And a great employee experience? It will drive your competitive advantage.

Citrix Workspace with intelligent capabilities is generally available now. Learn more about how it can help your organization transform the employee experience and deliver the future of work today.