- 08 Jan, 2025
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Workplace Tech Trends to Look Out for in 2025
Happy New Year from all of us at ReTrain Nigeria.
Last year was a long bumpy ride with its ups and downs, but kudos to you on making it through! Taking a stroll down last year’s memory lane, there were certainly times when we wished our tasks at work and the hustle or stress that comes with making ends meet could be done a lot quicker, with less effort and of course more productivity.
It’s no news that technology is here to stay. Introducing certain technology trends into your work routine in this new year can affect your personal and professional life, make work more interesting and fun. We’ll be sharing some of these trends that could affect your work in 2025, and how best to utilize these certain Key technology trends.
Cloud Computing
It can sound complicated to some but rest assured that it isn’t! It simply means being able to effectively work or operate remotely, enhanced by technology. Cloud computing ensures you can open your work files and apps on your devices from anywhere. That way, you’re not tied down to a single location. Cloud computing needs to be adopted by organisations of today especially in a country like Nigeria where costs are on the rise – particularly transportation.
Imagine a corporate worker in Nigeria not having to worry about transporting oneself to work every day. The absence of that thought alone is fulfilling.
Companies adopting the “remote” method of working could save their workers the time, energy, and attention directed towards the hassle of transportation.
Adopting the cloud computing trend guarantees faster productivity, easier communication, quality assurance, higher performance and availability, cost savings, prevention of loss of data and so much more. Overall, if adopted effectively, it will make workers more efficient – having at least one less thing to worry about.
5G & Enhanced Connectivity
The global rollout of 5G technology is enabling faster internet speed and more stable connectivity, which will continue to enhance many other technologies, such as Internet of Things (IoT) that allows data to be processed closer to where it’s generated rather than being sent to a centralised data centre – which takes longer time to be converted into useful information.
Unfortunately, Nigeria is yet to hack general connectivity challenges and many individuals and organisations often suffer connectivity setbacks. The good news is that this is generally improving and in 2025, the telecommunication industry key stakeholders will surely make great strides in this regard. As a traditional capitalist society that is generally commercially driven, connectivity improvements are inevitable.
Enhanced connectivity will allow companies to rely on real-time information for decision making, support remote working by enabling better and smooth communication between teammates and easy access to work tools. In a scenario where you can work from anywhere in Nigeria, even the more remote areas or while travelling will generally improve one’s work-life balance.
Personalised Health Tech
“Health is wealth” as the saying goes. It’s fair to say that good health makes us all more effective and productive. In 2025 some developments in healthcare, enhanced by technology will have an increasing impact on our work and hopefully keep us strong and healthy too!
Health monitoring devices are becoming quite popular and thankfully they are quite affordable depending on the brand one decides to go for. The growing use of health-monitoring devices will lead to a more personalised wellness programme – due to real-time access to health status. This will surely assist with mitigating and preventing health-related issues or emergencies that could affect employees. Please speak to your primary healthcare consultant or provider about some simple health monitoring devices that could be useful for you or your organisation.
Telemedicine (remote healthcare services) is an increasingly becoming a common alternative. It eases the balance of health needs with work and general life schedules. In essence, working in the typically stressful environment, which is Nigeria, is valid grounds for one’s health and early detection of related concerns to be priority. You will not only be saving time, in the long run, but also saving costs and inevitable stresses.
We advise that you take a few minutes to do some quick desktop research to understand some of your health vitals such as blood pressure, pulse rate, oxygen levels, etc. There are lots of affordable easy-to-use devices and apps that can help with this. Weekly blood pressure checks should be a basic action by virtue of living in Nigeria!
Again, please speak with your primary healthcare physician or provider for better understanding.
Talent Management & Employee Experience Tech
Some investments will be required but the returns and benefits will also be significant. It is definitely a worthwhile investment for companies with large headcounts frequently recruiting a lot of new employees.
Such technologies will generally be applied in three different ways.
Firstly, organisations will use artificial intelligence (AI) to help hire optimal candidates by screening resumes and predicting job fits. This way there is reduced bias, and the quality of hiring is increased. Employees will more likely be hired based on merit.
Secondly, is the adoption of employee engagement and wellbeing platforms. Employee health is now being recognised as a priority area by organisations and they will increasingly rely on AI-driven platforms to assess employee sentiment, provide mental health resources and offer personalised development programmes.
Lastly, upskilling and reskilling will be done with more intelligent processes. Companies will increasingly use AI-based learning management systems to provide personalised training, enhancing employees’ career growth and keep them competitive in a fast-evolving job market.
As an employee, it’s surely worthwhile researching which experience technologies which may be offered by your employer that could enhance your lifestyle or productivity. You may even want to recommend such initiatives to your human resources unit. It is just as important for employers to also research, these and other talent management technologies that could add value and improve organisational efficiency.
Cybersecurity
With great power comes great responsibility. Safe remote working (for both the employer and employee) comes with the responsibility of protecting devices, data and information by all stakeholders.
Cybersecurity is presently one of the fastest growing sectors of the information & communications technologies (ICT) industry – for obvious reasons! In 2025, individuals and organisations will further realise the importance of cybersecurity, brought about by some unsuccessful and (unfortunately) successful cyber threats and attacks. We will have to adopt more advanced security techniques and systems to protect data and prevent hacking.
In a well-protected environment, every user, device and network request should be verified continuously or as required before being granted access to information and organisational resources – simple as ABC! Such robust policies will further help companies detect threats on time, identify vulnerabilities and eventually stop potential breaches.
Applied effectively, these technologies will improve productivity of employers and employees. And to make this a reality, there is work to be done by both employers and employees -A adaptation, improved security systems and commissioning of modern productivity tools.
We at ReTrain Nigeria have many solutions to help you digitise and improve your productivity. We are only a call away and always look forward to learning from and sharing our knowledge with you!
Once again, we wish you a truly prosperous and remarkable 2025! Let’s Go!