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Long commutes, being in an office at a certain time with limited flexibility is gradually becoming a thing of the past. The future will see an increase in workplace mobility creating the “anywhere office,” a place where employees can work anytime from anywhere. By 2013, mobile workers will make up 35 percent of the worldwide workforce. While that leaves out over half of the global workforce, it shows us a new world of opportunity. Are you shifting your business to “The Anywhere Office?”
The Anywhere Office
The Future of Workplace Mobility
The daily commute, the office cubicle, the conference room – could these things, once staples of our work lives, go the way of the rotary phone? Companies around the world are embracing technology that allows employees to do their jobs at any time, anywhere, building a future where productivity is not necessarily associated with clocking in – and vice versa.
What does the workplace of the future look like? Find out with this interactive infographic, built on research and data from IDC's Worldwide Mobile Worker Population 2009-2013 Forecast, Cisco's International Workplace Study and the Telework Research Network.
The Global Workforce in 2013
Global Workforce: 3.4 billion
The five sections of the treemap to your left represent five regions, each with two sub-sections showing the percentage of workers who are “mobile” versus those who are not. Hover over the treemap for the details.
Asia Pacific (excluding Japan)
Non-mobile: 1.23 billion
Asia Pacific (excluding Japan)
Total Workforce: 1.96 billion
62.6% Non-mobile
Asia Pacific (excluding Japan) has the largest workforce in numbers, projected to reach 1.96 billion in 2013. Of that workforce, 1.23 billion, or 62.6%, will still be non-mobile at that time.
Asia Pacific (excluding Japan)
Mobile: 734.5 million
Asia Pacific (excluding Japan)
Total Workforce: 1.96 billion
37.4% Mobile
Thanks to the size of its workforce, Asia Pacific (excluding Japan) will have the largest total number of mobile workers – 734.5 million, or 59% of the total workforce worldwide, in 2013.
Rest of the World
Non-mobile: 841.6 million
Rest of the World
Total Workforce: 994.8 million
84.6% Non-mobile
The regions making up the “rest of the world” category will be large in numbers – 841.6 million in 2013 – but the vast majority (84.6%) will still be non-mobile in 2013.
Rest of the World
Mobile: 153.2 million
Rest of the World
Total Workforce: 994.8 million
15.4% Mobile
The regions representing the rest of the world (Canada and the emerging market countries in Central and Eastern Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Latin America) will have only 15.4% of their workforce mobile in 2013.
Western Europe
Mobile: 129.5 million
Western Europe
Total Workforce: 257 million
50.3% Mobile
Slightly more than half of all workers in Western Europe will be mobile in 2013.
Western Europe
Non- mobile: 127.9 million
Western Europe
Total Workforce: 257 million
49.7% Non-mobile
Western Europe's workforce will be split nearly fifty/fifty in 2013, with non-mobile workers slightly behind, representing 49.7% of its total workforce.
United States
Mobile:
119.7 million
United States
Total Workforce: 158.5 million
75.5% Mobile
More than three quarters of United States workers have workplace mobility, making the United States the world's leader in mobility penetration.
United States
Non-mobile:
38.8 million
United States
Total Workforce: 158.5 million
24.5% Non-mobile
The United States is and will remain the most highly concentrated market for mobile workers in 2013, with just 24.5% of its workforce, or 38.8 million people, lacking mobility.
Japan
Mobile: 49.3 million
Japan
Total Workforce: 66.1 million
74.5% Mobile
Japan will have 49.3 million mobile workers
in 2013, representing 74.5% of its total workforce.
Japan
Non-mobile:
16.9 million
Japan
Total Workforce: 66.1 million
25.5% Non-mobile
Japan's non-mobile worker population will represent 25.5% of its total workforce in 2013.
The Workforce of the Future
Learn more about the total population and global workforce by region. Click on the tabs below for more detail.
United States: Going Mobile
In 2008, 72.2% of workers in the United States were already mobile. That percentage will grow to 75.5% in 2013. The United States was and will remain the region with highest penetration of workplace mobility.
In 2008, nearly
12%
of mobile workers worldwide lived in the United States.
By 2013, nearly
119.7 million
people in the United States will be mobile workers.
Total Population vs. Mobile Workforce
Western Europe: Healthy Growth
Western Europe's mobile workforce will enjoy a healthy compound annual growth rate of 6% to reach 129.5 million mobile workers (50.3% of the workforce) in 2013.
In 2008, mobile workers in Western Europe represented
10%
of the world's mobile workforce.
By 2013, there will be more mobile workers in Western Europe than in the United States.
Total Population vs. Mobile Workforce
Japan: Going Mobile
Japan's mobile worker population will grow from 41.8 million in 2008 to 49.3 million in 2013, or 74.5% of its total workforce.
In 2008, Japan had the
2nd highest
penetration of workplace mobility after the United States.
It will nearly close that
gap by 2013 when
74.5%
of Japan's workforce will be mobile.
Total Population vs. Mobile Workforce
Asia Pacific: Strength in Numbers
With 734.5 million mobile workers by 2013, Asia Pacific (excluding Japan) will have the highest number of mobile workers in the world, but will still have a relatively small penetration of workplace mobility within the region (37.4%).
In 2008, mobile workers in this region represented
59%
of the world's mobile workforce.
By 2013,
62%
of all mobile workers worldwide will reside in the region.
Total Population vs. Mobile Workforce
Rest of the World: Growth Potential
By 2013, 15.4% of all workers in the rest of the world (comprised of Canada and the emerging market countries in Central and Eastern Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Latin America) will be mobile. The low penetration of mobile workers in the total workforce signals significant growth potential.
In 2008,
125.7 million
workers were mobile – more than the total number of mobile workers in the United States.
By 2013,
153.2 million
workers in these regions will be mobile – and 841.6 million will not.
Total Population vs. Mobile Workforce
Worker Attitudes Toward Mobility
It will hardly come as a surprise that workers increasingly prefer to be able to work from home – or anywhere else. Here is how today's workers feel about mobility at the workplace, based on a survey of 2,600 workers and IT professionals in 13 countries.
Hover over the charts below to learn more.
The Benefits of Telework
If 50 million people in the United States worked from home half-time, we could:
Click on each of the tiles above to learn more.
