The days of IT workers going to the same office for work every day are apparently over, according to a new survey from Forrester Research.
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Forrester's data on working from remote locations was just one of many interesting nuggets contained in its annual State of Workforce Technology adoption survey. Among other things, the survey found that 35% of information workers use their smartphones for work. Among these smartphone users, 48% said they chose their work smartphone "without considering what their company supports" while 29% chose their smartphone from a list of supported devices and 23% had their smartphone provided to them by their company.
BlackBerry devices were still the top smartphone in the information worker market, as 42% of smartphone users surveyed said they used a BlackBerry for work. Apple's iPhone accounted for 22% of worker smartphones while devices based on Google's open-source Android operating system accounted for 26% of worker smartphones. Smartphones in the enterprise apparently aren't being used for overly fancy or exotic applications, however, as email and work calendars were the only two smartphone applications that were used by more than half of IT smartphone users.
Forrester conducted its survey online in May and surveyed 4,985 information workers employed by organizations of 20 employees or greater.
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This story, "Office Work Is So Last Century, Forrester Reports" was originally published by Network World.