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Punch line: Since it can save costs and improve employee satisfaction, working from home is predicted to accelerate in the coming years.

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Excerpted from Fast Company Co.EXIST, “The Future Of Working From Home”

It seems that a new study comes out every day touting the benefits of working remotely.

It’s a trend that’s good for workers’ psyches and the environment–more people working from home means fewer car trips, and fewer people in the office allows companies to scale down to smaller spaces that use fewer resources. And if you don’t like it, well, too bad–a new survey from Citrix Systems found that the movement is speeding up. Among the highlights [from the survey]:

• The IT executives surveyed believe that by 2020 there will be seven desks for every 10 office workers.
• That ratio will be even lower–six desks for every 10 workers–in telecommuting-friendly countries like the U.S., the U.K., Singapore, and the Netherlands.
• 24% of companies have adopted mobile work styles … That number will balloon to 83% by mid 2014.

There are generational differences, to be sure. But, … there are many people who want to work remotely, and age has nothing to do with it.

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