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A recent study from the Families and Work Institute, a nonprofit organization that studies the changing workplace found that 63 percent of employers now allow employees to do at least some of their work remotely, up from 34 percent in 2005. This type of flexibility requires an infrastructure that allows employees to access their data and applications when they're away from the office. That's where desktop virtualization comes in, granting access to your office system from a remote location (technically this could also be used within the office, but why not break out of the drab cubicle?). Here are four things to consider when rolling out desktop virtualization access within your company: