Most wireless laptop users go online from multiple locations

[Research firm Gartner] says respondents to a recent survey of 528 information-technology managers at large organizations say that, on average, 10% of workers at their companies use employee-owned notebooks as their primary work PC. The respondents predicted that figure will jump to 14% by mid-2010, Gartner says.

During a survey conducted by Forrester research of 2,001 employees, only one in 25 information workers telecommutes full-time. Another 4% telecommute between two and four days a week. One in four work remotely one day a week or less. Sixty-seven percent of those surveyed never telecommute.

During a survey conducted by Forrester research of 2,001 employees, almost 60% of information workers say they e-mail hourly; 87% use it at least occasionally. Meanwhile, 74% say they never use instant messaging at work.

During a survey conducted by Forrester research of 2,001 employees, seventy-six percent never use Web conferencing tools such as Cisco System’s WebEx. Others that are mostly ignored include business-reporting tools (78%), team document-sharing sites such as Microsoft SharePoint (80%), social networking sites (89%) and videoconferencing (91%).

During a survey conducted by Forrester research of 2,001 employees, managers are the most likely (50%) to get a notebook or smartphone (20%). Manufacturing and retail employees are the least likely to be issued a laptop or smartphone (less than 20% and 10%, respectively).

During a survey conducted by Forrester research of 2,001 employees, only one in three information workers use a laptop for work, while one in nine uses a smartphone. Seventy-six percent use a desktop PC most of the time. One in five shares a PC with a co-worker.

If the H1N1 swine-flu pandemic arrives this fall… emergency planners say that school-age children and telecommuting adults could be accessing the network simultaneously, potentially overloading the public Internet’s capacity.

In 2007, the Department of Homeland Security published a report studying the effects that a pandemic could have on the Internet at large, and on telecommuting adults in particular. The report said that 90% of the telecommuting population would experience slowdowns or blackouts when accessing the Internet.

According to a survey by RVA Marketing Associates, 17% of those who have FTTH say they are working from home more as a result and more of them had home-based businesses as well.