If the amount of media coverage is any indication of popularity, then mobile working is definitely top-of-mind. On Friday, IT in Canada offered thoughts on mobile working, and the article spoke directly to how, at TELUS, we are both helping our clients go mobile, and how we’re taking our own workforce mobile.

The article, entitled “TELUS Leads with Flexible Work”, highlights both technological advances and cultural changes as major factors in businesses going mobile, or becoming “flexible”.  The article also cited some interesting facts on mobile working:

• 89% agree that allowing for flexible work makes a company more attractive to work for.
• 73% agree that flexible work has a positive impact on employee productivity.
• 71% of managers believe that their employees are effectively completing their assignments when working remotely.

Also of interest late last week, Clive Thompson from the Globe & Mail wrote “The end of the office”. In the article he explains how web-literate generations X and Y are becoming the driving force behind entrepreneurship and are more apt to adopting the technologies necessary to go officeless. He also explains that generation Y also tends to rank the importance of a physical office much lower than other demographics do, while at the same time preferring to work outside of the office.

What are your thoughts on mobile or flexible work? Have you seen any other interesting stats or research on the subject?