Cloud Computing: Intel predicts ‘office as a service’

Grazed from ZDNet. Author: Josh Taylor.

Increased teleworking, the adoption of mobility, and cloud computing will reduce the need for companies to have physical office space, according to Intel. Discussing Intel’s Future of Knowledge Work whitepaper, the company’s "chief evangelist and futurist" Steve Brown told journalists in Sydney this morning that over the next 30 years, 75 percent of the world’s population will move into major cities, and this will make commuting to the office more painful for office workers. At the same time, those people will be increasingly working outside the office, and cloud services will reduce the need for them to even be in the office.

"Office space is the second biggest overhead in companies after salaries. It is a significant piece of the cost of running a business, and yet they are delivering less and less value as people are travelling a lot," he said. "Space doesn’t make so much sense anymore. Workers, as they get empowered more, increasingly say they don’t want to be in the office. They don’t want to have to deal with that commute."…

He said that managers will need to stop managing staff by the amount of time they clock in the office, and instead look to be completely results oriented. The office space would be reduced, and staff would no longer think of the office as being the centre of their working life…

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