Cloud technology and the Internet are changing the business landscape in many ways, including how work is done.
According to a 2015 Gallup poll, telecommuting in the U.S. rose to 37 percent from 30 percent in the previous decade. An oft-cited 2009 Forrester report predicted that the U.S. telecommuting population would balloon to 63 million by 2016, a number that’s equivalent to 43 percent of U.S. workers.
Which makes you wonder: If telecommuting is on the rise alongside the use of email, e-signatures, Dropbox and Google Docs, and other cloud-based communication and data storage software why are fax machines still popular?
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According to a Fast Company article quoting Ron Resnick of OrderSnapp:
- A lot of smaller, mom-and-pop shops don’t have access to the Internet
- Many business owners aren’t internet-savvy
- Others don’t have the technology, e.g., iPad, to
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