To say that office work has changed because of technology is a vast understatement. Personal computers brought about a lot of change, mobility, growth in personal productivity. But potentially the biggest change has come about because of mobile devices - smartphones and tablets.
Today, everyone uses one or both of these mobile devices. They enable a lot of things to get done on the move. More interestingly, they have triggered a wave of new ways of communicating in the work environment, from texting to social media type apps.
Examples of the latter, collaborative software built with mobile devices in mind, such as Quip and Quickoffice, along with the standard file sharing utilities such as Google Drive and Dropbox, are proving that people can be productive no matter where they are and can work collaboratively - sharing their work and working on the same document at the same time. A recent great article on this topic points to more examples, Check it out.
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