While the government's policies on flexible-working have so far succeeded in giving more than a million people family-friendly hours, the vast majority have been women.
And to help stimulate ideas they have offered flexiblehours to their notoriously hard-working employees, as well as hiring more young people and women.
On the non-endangered cubicle list, professionals from around the globe selected tablets (55 percent), cloud storage (54 percent), flexibleworkinghours and smartphones (which tied at 52 percent) as office tools that are becoming more ubiquitous.