– Sponsored Information – This was inevitable: The desk phone, once an icon of the office, is now officially dead.

A recent survey by Dialpad, According to a San Francisco-based communications tech company, the trend toward telecommuting, and employees who would rather work elsewhere than the office, has rendered the desk phone almost obsolete.

“Our survey reveals that while the slow and painful death of the desk phone has clearly begun, it cannot happen fast enough for many workers,”In an interview with VoIP Monitoring, Craig Walker, Dialpad’s CEO, said this in August. “The anywhere worker movement is now evident in every segment of every industry. This significant trend will only accelerate over the next few years.”

There is no doubt about the death of the desk telephone. Dialpad surveyed 1,000 people about their communications and found the following:

* 80 percent of companies already rely on at least some remote workers.

* 67 percent say their employees are allowed to work from home.

“What we found out is the world today is your office,”Morgan Norman, Dialpad’s vice president for marketing, spoke to ZDNet in an exclusive interview. “That approach,”He stated, “is valid now in enterprise and small-to-mid-size businesses.”

Five-year-old company, for its part, has attracted the attention large clients through offering a cloud-based platform to communicate. Voice, video, instant messaging and text are just a few of the products that it offers. They also offer online meeting tools and no storage or on-site servers.

“The simple vision of Dialpad was to help every business, midsize to enterprise, connect all their employees and help them work from anywhere,”Norman

Vincent Paquet from Dialpad, vice president of product strategy and product, said that Dialpad would be there to fulfill a company’s communication requirements as soon as the desk telephone is no longer available.

Additionally, 40 new enhancements have been added to the company’s two products: Dialpad (which offers voice, messaging, and video services in and out of network communication) and UberConference (an enterprise-grade, HD audio conferencing platform). Dialpad states it is able to quickly roll out enhancements and release new releases due to its reliance to the Google Cloud Platform.

“In three years from now, there won’t be a desk phone anymore,” Paquet predicts.

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