In 10 years time, companies will have much smaller offices and will have worldwide employees, that communicate via new communication tools at home or at which location they want to be, so they can work faster and more effective.

Since the industrial revolution "working" for many people has meant going to an undesirable place and being locked up, because this is the only place that provided the necessary resources. With the "new way of working" almost all resources will be mobilized.

Due to many improvements in mobile hardware and mobile services it has become cheaper and much easier to contact colleagues and customers from a "distance".

Not working on one location also gets employees closer to their company. They can for example spend more time to visit customers, go to a conference or other event and this way give their company acompetitive advantage.

Because employees are not doing business the traditional “old” way where there you can work the two modules or "at the office" or “on the road"  
but just be where they want to be, feel free, happier and will deliver better
work.

Here are some examples that will affect the new way of working.

1: Working offline does not longer exist anymore. In the future everybody will
have the ability to be online anytime, anywhere.

2: All communication will be based on real-time. Presence and status will become important indicators.  Email will not really be used anymore.

3. Fast data connection will also be common property on the mobile devices.
This will make indirect face-to-face communication through video chat possible anytime, anywhere.

4. Besides employees that are measured on output it will also be better to "check" the presence of other employees on a distance. There will be systems that can check presence, engagement and the ethical aspects of working.

5: Experts with specific knowledge can be used easier and faster to do specific tasks, wherever on earth they may be.