Tavishi Agrawal, Author at Gigaom Your industry partner in emerging technology research Wed, 14 Oct 2020 00:35:21 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.3 The Future of Workplaces https://gigaom.com/report/the-future-of-workplaces/ Wed, 16 Mar 2011 16:00:08 +0000 http://pro.gigaom.com/?p=61525 Technological advancements have minimized the need for employees to be as physically present in a traditional office setting, and employee relationships now extend across different time zones and geographies. This paper discusses the future of work and the workplace in that context. We examine the shifting nature of actual workspaces, from four office walls to the online world; the emergence of new flexible hours that no longer require a nine-to-five mindset; the role of consumer-grade technologies such as iPads, smartphones and notebooks in the workplace; and what role cloud-based services such as Box.net, Huddle and Dropbox play. Companies mentioned in this report include Facebook, Apple, Google and Skype. For a full list of companies, and to read the full report, sign up for a free trial.

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]]> Over the last decade, technological advancements have minimized the need for employees to be as physically present in a traditional office setting. Central to this change is the ever-increasing access to high-speed Internet services, mobile technology and cloud-based collaboration services. And increasingly, these tools are also changing the nature of employee relationships, which often extend across different time zones and geographies and require better and better technologies to create effective collaborations.

This paper discusses the future of work and the workplace in that context. We examine the shifting nature of actual workspaces, from four office walls to the online world; the emergence of new flexible hours that no longer require a nine-to-five mindset; the role of consumer-grade technologies such as iPads, smartphones and notebooks in the workplace; and what role cloud-based services such as Box.net, Huddle and Dropbox play.

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