Teleworking in the 21st century

Telecommunications systems will soon provide a transparent connection between widely separated people enabling a full range of human interactions, unrestricted by technological limitations. The impact on the working environment will be profound: the distinction between home, office and elsewhere—a consequence of the limited technology currently used in business—will disappear. People will be able to work together regardless of whether they are in the same building, the same town or the same continent. They may work from home, from large central offices, local community work centres or from the ‘hotel of the future’.