Edgewater Networks Blog Unified Communications (UC): Changing the Workplace, Changing the Workforce

Alvin Toffler, the author of Future Shock (1970) and its sequels, was a futurist that made uncannily accurate predictions about many socio-technological advances in modern society. Some of these examples include the Internet and the increase of telecommuting due to the reduction or elimination of being required to work in the physical office and instead work from home: Toffler wrote that “…homes would one day resemble "electronic cottages" that would allow people greater work-life balance and a richer family life”.