The office desk, as we know it, may have had its day. A large studyon the future of work in theUKpredicts the rise of the “mobile worker” moving with notebook computer andmobile phone between office, home, hotel, airport or highway service station asthe needs of a job demand. Today, more than five million people already spendsome time working at home or on the move, according to a recent report. Thatnumber will rise dramatically over the coming decades, with mobile workbecoming one of the fastest-growing types of employment.

　　According to the study “Working in the Twenty-Five Century”,individuals will not necessarily see themselves as working from home. Theycould equally be working from the office, but they will be on the move fromplace to place, working at various times of the day, for much of the week. Fora large proportion of workers, work in twenty years’ time will be more aboutmovement than staying in one place.

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　　就我們所知，辦公桌可能已經(jīng)度過(guò)其全盛時(shí)期。英國(guó)一項(xiàng)對(duì)未來(lái)工作預(yù)測(cè)的大型研究表明，因工作所需，攜帶移動(dòng)電腦、移動(dòng)電話往返于辦公室、家庭、賓館、機(jī)場(chǎng)或是高速服務(wù)站的“移動(dòng)工作人員”將呈上升趨勢(shì)。一份最新的調(diào)研報(bào)告顯示，居家辦公或在走動(dòng)中工作的人數(shù)已達(dá)五百多萬(wàn)。隨著在走動(dòng)中工作成為發(fā)展最快的就業(yè)模式，這一數(shù)字在未來(lái)的十年還將急劇增長(zhǎng)。

　　一份題為“工作在21世紀(jì)”的報(bào)告稱，人們將不必持“離家上班”的理念，辦公室以外的場(chǎng)所同樣可以工作，但需不斷在走動(dòng)中進(jìn)行，每周的上班時(shí)間也大多不再固定。對(duì)為數(shù)甚眾的上班族而言，21世紀(jì)的工作將更多地在移動(dòng)中進(jìn)行，而非固定在一處。