Businesses at Work

Tech is mission critical The pandemic was a major turning point in nonprofits’ use of technology. Remote work required organizations to quickly adopt new tools to sustain employee productivity at home and connect with those they support. In the field, services began to be delivered digitally or with more digital components — increasing ease of use…

For the first few years of this decade, organizations everywhere had to grapple with wave after wave of remarkable change. Sudden developments like lockdowns, the shift to remote work, supply chain disruptions, rampant inflation, and the rise of AI — just to name a few — forced companies to ditch the status quo and rapidly transform if they wanted…

A worker is only as good as their tools. Just like carpenters rely on hammers and saws to build stuff, marketers depend on a growing range of applications to handle things, like design, sales, and collaboration.  The 2023 Okta Businesses at Work report takes a look at the applications and services used by companies around the world. Based on…

Every business today faces plenty of uncertainty. Macro headwinds such as a tight labor market, high inflation, and rising interest rates abound, making it an undeniably challenging time to run and grow a business.  To thrive in a climate like this, organizations have to be focused and strategic. They need to double down on workforce efficiency,…

Today, we released the findings from our eighth annual Businesses at Work report, our yearly exploration of how organizations and people work today. For many of us, 2021 felt like a continuation of the challenges of 2020—a year stuck in limbo. However, the most innovative companies found ways to push forward and evolve. Our data shows that…

Today, we announced the findings of our seventh annual Businesses at Work report, examining how organizations and people worked in a year of near-constant change. When we released last year’s report at the beginning of 2020, we never imagined the critical role technology would play as organizations adapted to the challenges of a global pandemic…

Today, we announced the findings of our sixth annual Businesses @ Work report, exploring how organizations and people work today. Businesses @ Work paints one of the clearest pictures of how organizations evolve when it comes to technology, and the trend line clearly points to greater adoption across the board; over the past six years, we’ve seen…

Today, while celebrating Okta’s 10th anniversary, we’re proud to launch our fifth Businesses @ Work report. A lot has changed over the past years. In our first report, we mused that companies were finally finding their footing with apps and multi-factor authentication. At the time, we were proud to reveal that companies were adopting an average of…

Today marks the release of our fourth annual Businesses @ Work Report, which takes an in-depth look at the apps and services employees, partners, contractors and customers in the Okta network use to be productive. This year, one thing is for sure: companies aren’t just adopting the best technologies, they’re securing them. It should come as no…

Today, we released our third Businesses @ Work report, which takes an in-depth look into the current state of apps and services organizations and people use to be productive at work. When we launched our inaugural Businesses @ Work report in August 2015, we closely examined what tools people were using at work, in the context of organizations…