More employees want to work out of their offices

The online survey conducted for Riverbed Technology Inc RVBD.O, an information technology company based in San Francisco, showed that 54 % of workers concentrate better working off-site compared with being in the office, but 33 % say accessing business files and software remotely slows them down and negatively affects their productivity. Working off-site can mean working from home, a hotel, another company location, coffee shop or other places.

Besides, the survey found that nearly half of the workers questioned said they work off-site more often now than two years ago, and 40 % said they would do so more often if business files or software loaded more quickly. Two-thirds of those surveyed said they would like to be able to work off-site more than they do now.

The survey was conducted by Harris Interactive in late March and early April among 4,391 adults, 910 of whom were employed full time, normally work on-site and access business files or software stored on an employer's server, network or drives from off-site. In addition, respondents were selected from a Harris database of several million people who have agreed to participate in its surveys.

Results were measured to reflect the composition of the population of U.S. adult computer users as to region, age, education, income and other factors, it said.