Much like Toronto Hydro Telecom, which recently tried to promote its OneZone Wi-Fi service by putting out survey results about how people hate being chained to their desks, British Telecom recently released a study of its own. It says, naturally, that people have a big fear of not being able to access e-mail on the road.
The more interesting result, I think, was the 13 per cent of IT managers who said they would be concerned that a colleague might shine in their place if they were unable to work remotely. Has it really come to this? In a good work environment you should be developing enough of a team spirit that it should be easy for any one member to take over the duties of another. Clinging to remote access technologies so they won't have a chance is disturbing. Paranoid? Delusions of grandeur? You make the call.