TAKE 1

WORK PLACE
DO YOU FEEL YOU NEED TO BE IN OFFICE?

Feeling At Nothing replaces daily in-person

interaction.
BRAZIL

23
RUSSIA

39
INDIA

7
CHINA

19

Home
Are offices going out of
An office is unnecessary for my
everyday job.
I can be more productive
working from home.
34

10
20

10
14

35
44

fashion? If they aren’t Technology allows me to be more

mobile and flexible.
33 31 44 36
already, then they should
be, is the emphatic A JOB WITH A HIGHER SALARY OR FLEXIBILITY?
verdict of a majority of IT BRAZIL RUSSIA INDIA CHINA
professionals surveyed by Salary is more important for me
17 30 22 31
Cisco. In India, about 35% of than working remotely.

employees are convinced I would sacrifice the extra salary

to work where I am happy.
83 70 78 69
that home is as good a
place as an office to give HOW MANY NEED COMPANY DEVICES FOR WORK?
their 100%.
And these sit-at-home 95
Indians—about 95%—want 77 73 77 77
their companies to foot 64 67
the bill for wiring up their 44
home desks with gadgets.
But IT companies aren’t yet
ready to go the distance. In Brazil Russia India China Mexico US UK France
India, 48% of the companies
aren’t too keen to fulfil their ARE COMPANIES READY TO PLAY BALL?
employees’ wish to work Brazil Russia India China
from home. An interesting The organisation is not looking to
battle is brewing. support information access from
outside the office.
11 26 48 8

The company hasn’t recognised

telecommuting as a corporate 6 18 30 5
imperative.

The company is actively working

towards enabling a mobile, 57 38 12 65
distributed workforce.
Note: Figures are in %. This report discusses the findings for 1,303 end users and 1,309
IT decision-makers who completed an online survey between August 16 and September 7,
2010. The survey was fielded in 13 countries and about 100 respondents were included in
every sub group.

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