The workers of the future will work across times zones, languages and cultures, and offices will disappear altogether, according to people performance specialist SHL.

According to Howard Grosvenor, managing consultant at SHL, offices will probably disappear and instead mini business centres could spring up near satellite offices.

"Increasingly people will work from home as organisations cut down their overheads on office space and use remote locations as the new-age workplace," he added.

With this new-age worker in mind, many employers are now considering remote working and working from home as viable options in their recruitment drive suggests Grosvenor.

He says websites such as Remote Employment will come to the fore and take the lead in recruiting ‘tomorrow’s workers’. Currently, around 3.1 million people usually or regularly work from home and this is likely to double in the near future.