Imagine a mobile world where going to work includes flexible locations and schedules that suit individual professional needs and personal lifestyles. The next decade will see a reinvention of the workplace. Emerging internet cloud and mobile technologies are increasingly shifting work lives away from the corporate office altogether and toward an in-my-own-place and on-my-own-time work regimen:

• Smartphones, tablets and other mobile computing devices will become the go-to-computing devices for most of the world.
• Third places for work will join the traditional office and home. The use of third places – public libraries, co-working facilities and rent by the hour office suites will grow, augmenting the already standard list of airports, cars and cafes.
• Information and communication technologies will better enable globally distributed work.