Infographic: Survey Shows Desk Phone is Headed for Retirement, but Isn’t Dead Yet

Desk Phone is Headed for Retirement, but Isn't Dead Yet Contrary to some beliefs that the desk phone will soon be dead in the workplace, the survey proved the opposite: even with the rise of mobile, desktop and collaboration tools, the desk phone might be headed towards retirement, but isn't dead yet. make calls from 83% 33% a physical phone often --- of respondents have been given a physical desk phone with their own business 41% of respondents make business calls from a phone number at their place of employment physical desk phone very often 65% 30% of respondents prefer to take business phone calls via desk phone |----- prefer via mobile phone 65% say they'd like to have a separate phone number that allows them to 46% accept business phone calls on their personal mobile device of employers do not pay for cell phone service bills for employees who make calls from their smartphones for business purposes 74% 24% found voicemails as a reliable did not find voicemails as way to leave a message a reliable way to leave a message 62% 31% use video calling often or very often would like to have voicemail to text service for business voice messages 91% 41% 37% agreed or strongly agreed that phone say they prefer texting over voice calls say it depens on the situation if they prefer calls are still an important mode of communications for texting over voice business purposes 38% 46% disagreed that the physical agreed that the physical desk phone will disappear from everyday use in the next 5 years desk phone will disappear from everyday use in the next 5 years About The Survey In May of 2015, RingCentral commissioned a survey to delve deeper into the trends and insights of knowledge workers. The goal of the survey was to understand the prevalence of the desk phone today and how today's workers best communicate. Among the 505 individuals surveyed. RingCentral http://www.ringcentral.com