According to survey results, more than half of the surveyrespondents said at least 10% of their knowledge workers workremotely and 65% of respondents said they have stopped providingworkspace for at least 10% of their work force. The factors drivingthis trend are corporations' desire to reduce costs and workers'desires for more flexibility in where and when they work. "Today'sforward-thinking, results-driven companies are sending workershome, purging underutilized real estate, saving money andreinventing the whole concept of 'going to work,'" says CoreNetGlobal director of global research Eric Bowles.

To complete the survey, CoreNet Global spoke with 27 topcorporate real estate professionals from Fortune 500 firms, theirglobal equivalents or service providers.

The survey results are consistent with CoreNet Global's studyconducted in 2004, "Corporate Real Estate 2010: Enabling Work in aNetworked World (CoRE 2010)." That study showed that at least 25%of corporations' knowledge workers would work remotely by 2010.