IDC: As mobile workforce grows, IT support could lag

08.11.2005

The study looked at growth rates by regions of the world, indicating that the mobile worker population in the U.S. will reach 113 million in 2009, growing nearly 3 percent in each of the next three years.

That growth could be stymied, however, by several factors. "Security can always ... stifle mobile adoption within an enterprise," IDC said in the study. And there could also be a "backlash among workers who [don't want to be] on duty 24/7."