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least occasionally work outside the workplace Working outside the ofice
If the other end is an out of
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consider e-mail and the Internet key to their he trend for workers to perform their work
productivity.
outside the oice continues to grow. Many white ofice person, the cell phone
collar workers could perform their tasks with Tools for the online worker
The online ofice worker vs. the non- few visits to the oice. he chart below shows
becomes the more likely he survey concluded that the most useful online
ofice worker
tools are e-mail irst and the Internet second.
hose that work in an oice have diferent connection. The pundits who Surprise, landline phones are more important
opinions about online tools when compared to predict the total disappearance than cell or smartphones.
those that do not work in an oice. See the chart he landline received a 35% endorsement
below. E-mail is three times more important to of the landline in the next few while the cell/smartphone came in at 24%.
the oice worker than the non-oice worker.
Social networking sites are a distant ith. If you
I have worker out of my home for 30+ years. I years are probably optimistic
count the T1/PRI and SIP trunking access in the
consider e-mail to be my most important online landline category, then you can see that landlines
tool, far more important than any other medium.
remain an important network connection asset for the enterprise.
E-mail and Internet access are particularly
the total disappearance of the landline in the next important to the white collar worker. Many
few years are probably optimistic.
pundits believe that e-mail overuse reduces
he enterprise locations may drop their copper productivity by creating distractions at work. his
wire connections. hey will not drop their T1/ is interesting in the light of the spam, phishing,
PRI or SIP trunk connections. he copper
and hacking attacks that are encountered. White
wired landline will take some time to disappear. collar workers include executives, business
he wired connections over T1/PRI SIP trunk owners, managers, and clerical staf.
connections will have a long life. hese wired It turns out that 59% of the workers that at
connections will probably never disappear. So the
wireless phone will become more common for
the out-of-oice worker. he wired connection
will remain constant for the enterprise end of the
conversation.

The survey
that 21%, about 1/5, frequently work outside the he survey is based on an online probability
oice. In this case, the cell phone is deemed more survey conducted in September 2014 among
important than the landline phone.
a sample of 1,066 adult internet users, 18
years of age or older. he survey included 535
he Internet is 2 2 times more important to Two ends of the conversation
adults employed full-time or part-time, who
the oice worker. he landline remains more Any communications connection will have two are the basis of this report. he survey was
important than the cell/smartphone for the oice or more participants. When the two participants conducted in English by the GfK Group using
worker. Although social networking is low on the are in the oice, it is more likely that the landline KnowledgePanel. he sampling error for the
list, the oice worker considers it more important or IP phone will be used. If the other end is an subsample of 535 working adults is plus or
than the non-oice worker.
out-of-oice person, the cell phone becomes the minus 4.9 percentage points at the 95% level of
more likely connection. he pundits who predict
conidence. ■

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