Google sees Docs as key to a more social corporate workplace

From InfoWorld: Google's vision of the not-so-distant future: The corporate workday will be quite different -- and a lot more social.

Executives at Google say that emerging cloud-based applications will foster far more collaboration among a new generation of corporate workers that have grown up using social networks like Facebook and Twitter.

Anil Sabharwal, product manager for the cloud-based Google Apps offering, predicts a major corprate shift to the cloud will become clear in five years, when most organizations are using cloud-based email, spreadsheet, and documentation services in large part for their easy collaboration, or business socialization, capabilities.

"Social elements will come into play in how we get our work done," Sabharwal told Computerworld. "The idea is that businesses are, by their very nature, a social network. You're all connected by virtue of working for that company. Better collaboration. Better broadcasting of information to a group. Better social connections. All of that is going to become really interesting for businesses."

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