The portable office

Maximising productivity, efficiency and making the most of every spare minute has become almost an obsession in the office nowadays.  People cannot even travel to a meeting without working.  Laptops are being plugged in on the trains, blackberry mobiles and PDA’s are being carried everywhere so people can pick up their emails whilst being on the move and we can even messenger each other and check the internet from our mobiles.  There are more and more mobile workers so is it possible that the days of working in an office are almost at an end?

Thanks to technology it is almost unheard of for a person to sit at their office desks and not use a computer.  The first thing we do when we arrive at the office is to sit on our office chairs, switch the computer on and check our email.

So much has changed in the last ten years or so.  Typewriters and dial up internet are already more or less extinct, fax machines are rarely used nowdays and it is all about high speed broadband access and mobile phones.  Not only has our technology changes but our office furniture has changed with it.  Ergonomic office desks and office chairs have got smaller and changed shape to accommodate the computer or laptop and to allow us to spend even more time sitting comfortable on office seating for longer hours than ever before.  The question is, will we even recognize our office in another ten years?