With modern technology, flexible working with relevance to time and place is a major plus point. Email, as an example, gives fast and easy communication without the constraints of real time. Video conferencing enables a meeting face to face sat from your office chair in your office but communicating with offices on different continents.

It can take some time for the true value of a new technology to be appreciated. It took more than 10 years before the internet become part of our everyday working lives and a computer was the main item on our office desk.  The internet is no longer just a valuable information and research tool; it is our main line of communication in keeping us connected to our colleagues, customers, relatives and friends in quicker and more cost-effective ways.

From your office desk, you can have instant access of instant messaging and real time communication between two or several people over the internet. Voice over Internet Protocol was the next thing to arrive with either free or very cheap voice calls over the internet rather than through telephone line is now rapidly becoming common use by technically savvy businesses.

The amount of people using Skype as one of the most commonly used VOIP applications actually raised by 181% throughout Britain last year. It has more than one million UK users, many of which are small businesses communicating with their outsourced colleagues rather than speaking to them at an office desk face to face due to distance.

Certainly, for employees, instant messaging has definitely had the greatest impact for work efficiency because it’s faster than using email and doesn’t overloading the company’s’ email servers.