A recent report by US technology analyst firm IDC, has highlighted the fact that due to the growth and accessibility of VoIP Communications, by the end of 2010 there will be 1 billion people working from mobile locations.

Actual predictions of the report state that by the end of 2013, the figure will rise to 1.2 billion – over than a third of the world’s current workforce. The majority of the growth will come from the Asian/Pacific economies where interest in VoIP and Unified Communications (UC) is particularly strong.

The report goes on to make some interesting predictions for the future including,

• the U.S. while not having the the greatest growth or greatest volume of workers over the next 4 years, will have the highest concentration of mobile workers with 75% of the U.S. workforce being mobile by 2013.
• Western Europe’s mobile workforce growing by 6% to surpass the U.S. workforce with 129.5 million mobile workers compared to the 119.7 milion in the US.
• Japan will reach the sustainable limit of it’s ability make workers mobile by 2013 – 49.3 million workers will be mobile.

These figures are quite staggering when put into the context of the VoIP industry as it is now and is a healthy recommendation for any company looking to invest in VoIP telephone systems for their company.

The report has been put together as 5 year forecast of the mobile worker population covering office-based, non-office-based, and home-based workers.

To read the full press release and report, visit the IDC website here