Your smartphone
It’s not your typical wearable, but Bill Bartow, vice president of global product development at Kronos, suggests that your smartphone is the ultimate workplace wearable. "Instead of trying to encourage employees to adopt a new technology such as smart badges or other activity trackers, there are a host of ways organizations can engage with their workers through a device they already don’t leave home without," says Bartow. And not only don’t they never leave home without it, they are almost always "wearing" it somewhere on them, whether in a pocket or on a belt clip.
As one example, Bartow questioned why an employee should need to punch in anymore. "With a mobile app on their phone, an employee’s 3G/4G, Bluetooth, NFC, or Wi-Fi can automatically ‘punch in’ the employee when they walk by the timeclock at the employee entrance. No need to stop – it is one less thing for the employee to worry about."