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About 90% of employees today work away from their company's headquarters, on average, and 40% work at a remote location, away from their supervisors. What technologies do you need to have in place to ensure that those employees are at their most productive? This weekly alert by Nemertes Research will explore answers to that question, covering collaboration technologies, WAN optimization strategies, network performance management and other issues vital to network managers and CIOs whose companies have branch offices and remote workers. The alert also includes the latest remote office news headlines on NetworkWorld.com.

Toni Kistner

Spike in distributed work boosts professional suites giant Regus

Professional suites giant Regus boosted by spike in distributed work

EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the final issue of the Telework Beat Newsletter. Sadly, author Toni Kistner is leaving Network World, and we have decided to simply discontinue the newsletter rather than replace her. Instead, next week we’ll be sending you James Gaskin’s popular Small Business Technology Newsletter, which covers many of the same topics every Thursday. We value your continued interest and we hope you’ll find James’ newsletter useful. If you would like to make any changes to your newsletter subscriptions, please go to:
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Big companies pushing distributed work realize that mobile employees need three places to work: a corporate office, a home office and some sort of third place, an alternate office.

There are two visions about how best to meet the needs of the alternative office. One focuses on relieving congestion in big cities such as Toronto by putting office centers in suburbs near peoples' homes, a nascent model spearheaded by start-up Suiteworks. The other is the traditional professional suites model,catering to travelers wherever they happen to touch down. UK-based Regus already owns the latter and can expand and grab some of the former.

Regus started out 15 years ago renting meeting rooms and long-term office space to companies that had outgrown their space and needed to set up a temporary branch office or quickly establish a presence in a new location. Regus came through bankruptcy in 2002 to acquire its rival, U.S. company HQ, and now is positioning itself to ride the distributed work wave, offering new services suited to distributed workers and independent contractors.


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