Working from Home Becoming More Common

It's not just schooling(grade school and higher learning) which is coming home, it's work! Someday brick and mortar centers of learning and business may be less commonplace.

Telecommuting Will Rise To Include 43% Of US Workers By 2016

"...we already have 34 million Americans working at least occasionally from home today. And that's with broadband to only 56% of US homes. But that's what the data say. And with our Consumer Technographics survey of 61,033 US and Canadian consumers, you can be confident that the numbers are accurate.

But it's even more surprising to run the numbers forward to 2016 and see how many Americans will work from home then: 63 million! We just published our US Telecommuting forecast that shows how an additional 29 million telecommuters will enter the remote workforce. " Read more here

Sharp rise in telecommuting as Canadian firms strive to cut costs
Allowing employees to work where and when they are most effective is a growing trend, sparked by tightening budgets and the surge of 'millennials' entering the work force. Read more here.

"Mommy, what does 'commute' mean?"

"It's what people used to do in the old days, Sweetie. They got in cars and drove from their houses to where they worked. Sometimes it took hours and hours."

The next major leap forward -- and it's coming -- will be when virtual working expands beyond knowledge workers to the kinds of jobs that historically always required physical presence. You've heard about telemedicine, in which doctors conduct surgeries remotely. Now think about how that will play out for cops, nurses and factory workers. With the right robotics at the far end, physical presence will be increasingly unnecessary. Read more here.