Sixty-six percent of workers would choose a lower-paying job with work-from-home options over an opportunity with a higher salary but less flexibility, according to a recent Cisco international study.
"And 60 percent of the respondents feel that they don't have to be in the office to be productive. A whopping 93 percent of surveyed employees in India said their productivity isn't limited to office time, which 81 percent of respondents from China and 76 percent of those surveyed from Brazil felt the same.
"Work is not a place anymore. It's a lifestyle, and the IT profession's role is only going to get more strategic as it tries to help businesses stay agile and increase productivity," said Dave Evans, futurist and chief technologist within Cisco's Internet Business Solutions Group.
This desire to work anywhere at anytime poses quite a challenge for IT departments as 45 percent of the respondents said they aren't prepared (policy- and technology-wise) to support such a workforce.
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