I guess that people have always managed to get things done even when they were away from their normal workspace. Through the 20th century and beyond, physical place becomes less and less of an issue. I remember when cell phones were new. I had a client who conducted most of his business in his car. It seemed a crazy way to do business back then--he couldn't be fooling anyone that he was really in his office with their records in his hands as he drove down I-84--the quality of the system wasn't that good. Still, it allowed him to achieve the runabout life style that he enjoyed.
Now, with the interconnectedness of everything, those times seem quaint and anecdotal. No longer is place important. As long as we have a computer, be it laptop, tablet or smartphone, we can pretty much call any place our office. The up side of this is that we can pretty much work anywhere: in the office, at home, on the road. The down side of this is that we can pretty much work anywhere: in the office during business hours, at home after hours, on the road while on vacation.
Depending on how you see things, this is either a great liberator or a tremendous ball and chain. Fortunately, as location has become less important for doing this kind of work, so time is also becoming flexible. If you can't delegate your social media campaign tasks while you travel, there are great tools like Hootsuite to guarantee that your messages go out on schedule, even if that's the time you've booked your massage at the spa. It's as if you never left the office, wherever that is.
