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The Magic of Mac Employee Choice
In today's dynamic work environment, providing employees the tools they prefer significantly impacts productivity, satisfaction, and retention. With 72% of employees preferring to work on Mac over PC1, it’s no secret that Apple devices are the technology of choice. But why does employee choice matter? Let’s dive in.
Increased Employee Retention
Employees increasingly expect technology that mirrors their personal preferences. In fact, 77% of employees would choose to stay at a company that offers a technology choice1 - reducing costs associated with high turnaround.
Maxed-Out Productivity
68% of employees say the ability to choose their device makes them more productive in the workplace1. Beyond personal preference, Mac features and design can take productivity to a new level. Faster device-processing speeds, better application reliability and performance, a more intuitive user experience, and a longer battery life all contribute to improving overall employee engagement and productivity by 3.5%.2
Minimal IT Overhead
From an IT perspective, Mac devices are highly manageable, secure, and efficient to deploy at scale, reducing device support and management costs by almost one-third.2 Using Apple Business Manager and Mobile Device Management (MDM) solutions, IT teams can automate device setup, enforce compliance, and manage updates remotely with zero-touch deployment.
Get Started
Before your company can properly implement an employee choice program, your IT teams must be able to manage every aspect of deploying and supporting Apple products. Once implemented, you will need to communicate your offering with your entire organization and set your employees up for success on Mac. Thankfully, it’s simple. There are four basic steps involved in creating your own program.
Engage
To begin, you will need to engage your organization and assemble the team behind the program. Many teams start by finding an executive sponsor. Establish a program owner and a project leader within IT, technical architect, security lead, and other engineering functions. Plus, stakeholders in non-IT departments like HR, finance, and procurement.
Evaluate
Start by evaluating your current corporate infrastructure. Analyze how your existing Wi-Fi and VPN solutions will work with macOS and iOS, as well as other services like Microsoft Exchange and Active Directory. Test your core set of apps, workflows, and intranet to make sure most users are covered for critical tasks.
Establish
Establish a device management solution from third-party companies like Jamf, VMWare, and MobileIron. Intune is a great solution for managing both Mac and Windows devices simultaneously. Once manageable, you will want to understand the variety of built-in security features Mac offers and develop your security strategy.
With your management solution and security strategy in place, you can now test your workflow for any issues by practicing various scenarios, considering different user locations, device configurations, and infrastructure abnormalities.
Evangelize
Congratulations! Prepare to launch your internal rollout. Develop e-mail communications, an employee sign-up landing page, how-to guides and resource videos, onboarding collateral and other assets needed to spread the word about your new program.
Rolling out a Mac Employee Choice program positions your organization as modern, flexible, and people-first. With security, productivity, and positive user experience built in, Mac doesn't just support your workforce it elevates it.
Contact us for more guidance on starting your own Mac Employee Choice program.