How will you be working in 2020? - Ascent

It's Monday morning, and you've just stepped into a driverless car with three colleagues to chair your first meeting of the day. You enter the office by placing your hand on a biometric scan, and, sensing your feelings as you start the working week, the lights and temperature are adjusted to improve your mood. Your virtual assistant orders you a coffee, which is brought to your desk by a co-bot working alongside you. This may sound like a sci-fi film, but these innovations could be coming to your workplace sooner than you think… Here, I explore the key technologies set to reshape the professional landscape by 2020, making the workplace of the future much more virtual, mobile, collaborative and flexible. Gartner predicts that 21 million new cars will be equipped with data connectivity this year alone.