The truly mobile workforce has arrived! With the use of remote access and wireless technology (WiFi), businesses have discovered that work-at-home professionals and office workers can significantly increase their job satisfaction and improve their productivity. After rolling out WiFi across its entire campus, Microsoft Corp. predicts that each of its employees will increase productivity by half an hour per day.

A low-cost and secure connection to the Internet enables workers to maintain communication with the corporate infrastructure from virtually any remote location. Within the office, wireless access allows freedom of movement and instant communications. Furthermore, as wireless technologies move to hand-held devices like PDAs, employees can access e-mails and other data at any time from nearly any location.