Tuesday 5 April 2011

Working from Home: The Future of Workplaces

How do you feel about working from home and not be chained in your office? Is your presence really necessary in the office or you just lose time and money stuck in traffic in order to get there?


According to a very recent survey conducted by Skype, working from home is the future. Regardless of how biased a survey from Skype might be, it undoubtedly shows that working from home is more than a trend. It is happening now and it will grow drastically.

Skype’s survey, is based on responses from 1,000 professionals at around 500 businesses of all sizes.

Working from home is easier than ever thanks to all the online collaboration tools, such as Skype. E-mail is not the king anymore. It will decline. Video conferencing, desktop video and VoIP are the technologies that will prevail, followed by room-based video, mobile phones and IM.


The survey shows that 62% of the companies allow some of their employees to work from home. 34% of the employees actually can work from home and they spend 40% of their work time there. 
But is remote working good for business? It seems yes. According to the survey, decision makers think that working from home is more productive. Also, employees




Overall, it is a very interesting survey and you can download it here.







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