The rise of mobile workers has companies unloading space and rethinking what’s left. Chances are that on any given day up to 40% of your colleagues are not in the office. Instead they are working in rumpled T-shirts on their sofas, long-hauling it to Asia for client meetings, or mooching Wi-Fi and power in some café. The professional class is going bedouin, as some in Silicon Valley say.

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