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Satish Kumar Reddy Nagireddi 

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Given the growth in telecommuting and other mobile work arrangements, how might offices physically change in the coming years? Will offices as we think of them today exist in the next ten years? Why or why not?

Over the coming years, the existence of physical offices will greatly shift, although technology will not have reached at a level where they are totally eliminated. However, the functions of a physical office and many features as well as workers in the offices will change. There will be no need for secretaries as that will be replaced with new technologies that will help in scheduling appointments and accepting appointments based on the schedule keyed into the system. Meetings and appointments will be done online through video and teleconferencing means, which are likely to grow immensely over the next ten years (Andrews, 2018).

Although physical offices will not have been done away with in the next ten years, their sizes will be reduced drastically because there will be no need for infrastructure and companies can connect online with employees working remotely towards a common goal. This will mean that companies will still need to have physical locations where they can be identified with because a physical presence of brands is also critical (Bluestone & Warner, 2018).

The future office will be software applications that will be stacked with cloud software that will be used to operate remotely through cloud computing. This will make the work of employees easier as they do not have to wake up early mornings and dealing with heavy traffic. However, concerns over the commitment and seriousness of the employees have already been raised under such working conditions and it remains to be seen how discipline will be enhanced. Coordination of people working remotely is hard, so is their motivation (Andrews, 2018).

References

Bluestone, P., & Warner, N. (2018). Driverless Cars, Virtual Offices and Their Effects on Local Government Property Tax Revenues.

Andrews, M. (2018). Physical space in vogue as firms ponder future of offices. Australasian Law Management Journal, (Dec 2018), 1.

 

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