Modern notebooks are lightweight, fast and powerful, and yet have a decent battery life.
The popularity of notebooks naturally allows us to perform work in locations other than our office, and as communications improve, the need to travel decreases. Today, thanks to the ubiquity of the Internet, there's less need for office workers to make the daily trek to the office in town. They can move their PC and printer to their home, and rely on the telephone network to connect to their office. They then become teleworkers, working remotely, but still in constant touch with the office. Around 1.5 million people, or 5.5 per cent of the UK workforce, already work from home at least one day per week in their main job, by using a computer and a telephone link to their employer or client, according to the Spring 2000 Government Labour Force Survey.