How location dependant are you?

Do you leave your home in the morning and commute to the same physical workplace each day?  If so, you may have noticed that change is afoot.

The increasing availability of cloud computing and mobile devices means that defining work in terms of a physical location is a thing of the past for many people.  Their workplace is the spare room of the house, the car, a coffee shop or a clients office.

This change is demanding that we re-assess what we call work and where it happens.

In terms of work/life balance it was once easy to say if it happened at work, then it was work and everything else was personal.  But now we hear stories about people who answer their emails in bed and we know things have changed.

And while answering emails after-hours is often presented as a negative change, for many the freedom from hours of commuting is a major positive change that they have gained from becoming location-independent.

The ability to define boundaries (independent of location) will be a factor in how well we acclimatize to the new work environments. What positive and negative outcomes do see coming out of these changing work environments?