Offering your employees the flexibility not to be tied for their full working week at their office desks is a good idea. Industry surveys show that employees are more productive when they work from an office desk at home.

Jo Causons, Chartered Management Institute said;

Offering benefits such as flexible working and remote working helps motivate and retain skilled employees without expecting their employees to be tied to their office chairs and giving them a way to better manage their own work and home-life commitments, which should ultimately lead to a more productive workforce.

In some cases though remote working can prove very difficult for managers; "If it is to be successful," Jo Causons says, "it is essential managers hold regular meetings in an official meeting room at an office desk within the main office, face to face with their remote workers to keep them informed on company information so that they are not disadvantaged by the perceived lack of contact."

If the thinking of implementing high technical innovations into your office or balancing remote working with being chained to the office desk, in office hours seems daunting remember it is not just our new hardware that is having such a positive impact on our new working culture.

It is quite surprising how the simple inventions can prove to be the most productive: how many times have you put your hands together in prayer at your office desk to say a silent thank you to Outlook for remembering all the contacts you so regularly email, automatically providing you a list to select when you begin to type the first letter of a recipient’s name?

Cynthia Crossley, Microsoft director, says:

There are three basic things people will always want to do: stay in touch with each other, get more done and have more fun. Technology keeps making these things easier, to the point where it becomes seamless to an individual.

There really seems to be a good argument that moving office furniture into our homes maybe the way in our working futures.