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he office that we used to sell to in the old days – with a fixed, largely
tpermanent workforce, operating day in and day out from the same
large building – is becoming an increasing rarity. These days you are just
as likely to find that your client has a contracted, mobile workforce, many
of whom visit several different offices in the course of their day, and may
even work from home.
Increased mobility, however, also means an increased opportunity for
theft, as people are much more used to letting strangers or people they
don’t recognise into their office spaces and to leave them unattended.
A good office product supplier, then, should be able to point out
these risks to their clients, and to suggest ways they could improve their
security with, among other things, a more judicious use of shredders for
documents clients don’t need any more, and safes for items they really
have to keep.
In this special report we look at how successfully the message about
security is getting home, and how this, on top of action by national
governments, could be affecting the market.

Some of the data in this report has been supplied by GFK,
www.gfkrt.com/uk, the providers of the BOSS Market Tracking
service. For further information please visit www.bossfederation.
co.uk and click on the Market Tracking Service page.
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