Powwownow Announce the Death of the Office

MANCHESTER, England, August 30, 2011 /PRNewswire/ --

-— The UK's leading conference call provider say with new technological advancements there's no longer any need to be tied to a desk -—

The era of the office is coming to an end according to leading conference call provider Powwownow. According to Powwownow, the modern worker finds it increasingly inconvenient to be tied down to their office and the advent of the smartphone, netbooks, cloud computing and reliable mobile conference calling services mean the days of the office look to be numbered.

Powwownow CEO Andrew Pearce says: “Over the past decade, the average British worker has become increasingly mobile and technological advancements in the last couple of years have allowed them to throw off the shackles that previously kept them at their desks. Powwownow provide our customers with a number of mobile conferencing call options to enable them to take their business wherever they need to be and now that email can be answered on the move and important files accessed from any computer, there's really no need to go into the office.”

Technological advancements have been coming thick and fast in the last decade. The first sign that the tides were changing came with the introduction of the laptop computer which let employees telework efficiently for the first time. Now workers are using smartphones, netbooks and tablet PCs to work on the move.

Advanced conference calling services such as Powwownow's have allowed workers to join conference calls from anywhere in the world where they previously had to use hardware at the office. Where access to files previously caused issues, cloud computing services such as Dropbox, Google Docs and Apple's upcoming iCloud allow workers to freely share their work without being connected to a network.

Pearce continues: “In an increasingly international marketplace, there's simply no sense in keeping your workers tethered to their desks as people can work even more efficiently in a setting of their choosing. Portable computing and mobile conference calls with Powwownow make offices superfluous for progressive companies and we at Powwownow think teleworking is the way forward for businesses everywhere.”

About Powwownow:

Powwownow (http://www.powwownow.co.uk/) was founded in the UK in 2004, offering customers low-cost conference calling facilities with the ethos of no booking, no billing, no fuss. The customer does not need to book a conference room and never receives a bill from Powwownow. They only pay the cost of their own call, which is added to their standard telecoms bill. The company now operates in 15 countries worldwide including the US and major European markets and recently acquired web conferencing and business collaboration providers, Yuuguu. Turnover for 2011 is predicted to reach £10m.

Find out more about Powwownow by visiting the Powwownow Facebook page and following @Powwownow on Twitter.

Powwownow employs 49 people and is based in Richmond and Manchester.

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