The report predicts this number to grow globally to 865 million by 2016 increasing the demand of tablets by information workers who are 1.5 to four times more likely to own a tablet, than an individual who is not an information worker.

The number of information workers is expected to grow by 2016 at a rate of 13 percent annually. Out of the 241 million information workers in Asia Pacific, two million were in Hong Kong, 2.5 million in Singapore and 148 million in China.

Forrester defines the information worker population as employees who use an Internet-connected computing device for work for an hour or more per day.

The research firm notes that these workers are slowly erasing the boundaries between the enterprise and consumer by intensively leveraging computing technologies and services.