The Relationship Economy will facilitate rapid growth of the "virtual work" concepts and applications. Consider for the moment what we have at our disposal today: 1) Unprecedented access to information and people
2) Technological communications tools that enable a virtual presence, audio, video and text
3) Collaborative tools for virtual group dyanmics and exchanges of information and knowledge
4) Mobile lifestyles exploding with integrated applications for virtually all things we need for working
5) Social networks which enable rich to resources and richness in terms of content and exchanges

Now lets consider the personal stresses and collective cost of todays work environments:

1) Add individual fuel and repair cost of commuting and the related environmental cost
2) Stress of time to and from work as well as time away from our families
3) Personal cost for eating out, dry cleaning, parking, etc
4) Office cost for employers
5) The cost