Carriers: Train conductors, Airline Cabin Crew Yo Yos: occaisional business travellers O n-Site M o vers – IT technicians . Security Agents Nomads: Sales agents, engineers, consutltants Pendulums: time at home or clients office – auditors, consultants, jpournalists
Women are 67 per cent less likely to be mobile workers than men Managerial workers are twice as likely, and professional workers are over three times Full-time workers (31%) are almost twice as likely to be mobile workers than part-time workers (18%) Self-employed workers (42%) are almost twice as likely to be mobile than paid workers (26%)
Cloud computing Now, with the introduction of mobile, portable technology and the ability to communicate across distance at little or no cost, many of the fundamental rules of office life will be challenged. There is something significant happening to the nature of work, and the places created to house it in the 21st Century. Video conferencing is about to come of age. A technology that has been around for many years is reaching critical mass, thanks to the spread of broadband and miniature webcams embedded into devices. The credit crunch-led travel bans has also had a remarkable impact on the acceptance of high quality video conferencing as a replacement to physical meetings, and the market is expanding, realising the notion of the ‘death of distance’. When people can effectively meet and ‘eyeball’ each other rather than jumping on airplanes, distributed work really works.
Not only is your workplace changing, all of them are. In fact, there is not an industry today which is not significantly different than it was 5 years ago. It is unlikely that this trend will reverse in the next 5-10 years And the most striking realisation that fit organisations are stating is that they believe that they can grow out of recession without taking on more real estate. For the first time economic growth and expansion in head count may not result in expansion in floor space.