The Issue:

The very essence of “work” is changing. All across the world, but even
more so in the U.S., society is changing the definitions of “work” and “office”. As
communications and connectivity become more powerful and ever more widely
available, work has become less and less a place and more an activity which takes
place anywhere. In the last 4 years Nemertes Research has tracked the number of
employees working away from their company headquarters. That number has
gradually trended up, exceeding 90% in 2006. Today, branch office and mobile
workers dominate, and knowledge workers are increasingly mobile, operating out
of home offices, hotel rooms, airport lounges, coffee shops and taxis. As their
work habits have changed through enabling communications technologies, they
have in turn pushed adoption of those technologies by their companies: laptops,
wireless Ethernet, smart phones, and web applications.

Large companies have gradually shifted more and more of their critical
applications to the web. Through a web browser, the same application can be
delivered to a desktop, a laptop, a phone, regardless of location, operating system
or (mostly) browser. This “webification” of applications has become a catalyst for
further mobility and fluidity of the workforce.

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