I am trying to discern the following facts/info about mobile workers
(?road warriors?); can anyone help?

TRAVEL

1.	Number/percentage of people who dislike traveling with their PCs/laptops
2.	Reasons why people do not like traveling with their PCs/laptops
3.	Number/percentage of people who would prefer a terminal-like
solution over traveling with their PCs/laptops

<1. Number/percentage of people who dislike traveling with their PCs/laptops

A survey of road warriors by Holiday Inn Express found that 58% travel
without a laptop. Travelling light is their number one priority.
http://riroads.com/archive/roadwarriors.htm

A survey of 200 managers by Benchmark found that 56% believed that IT
equipment was too cumbersome to travel with particularly if it
involved laptops and other large pieces of IT equipment.
http://66.102.9.104/search?q=cache:AEZ9hfSkuvkJ:pt.fujitsu.com/localData/pdf/whitepapers/smart_support.pdf+%22laptops%22+respondents+travel&hl=en&ie=UTF-8

A study of 5,000 students found that 17% didn?t carry their laptops
because they were too heavy and 14% because they fear it may be
stolen. http://66.102.9.104/search?q=cache:046qSSNSHPoJ:train.ed.psu.edu/weblog/facac/survey_2003.pdf++laptop+respondents+%22too+heavy%22&hl=en&ie=UTF-8

A study of school students found that 61% reported discomfort in
carrying their laptop.
http://www.bbzfnv.nl/2000IJIElaptop.html

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3. Reasons why people do not like travelling with a laptop.

Too cumbersome ? see answer 1.

Laptops are too large to carry around conveniently, and they are
inconvenient to use on planes, in airports or in conferences (Goldman
Sachs 2001, Schwartz 2001).
http://jmsb.concordia.ca/~cokoli/mis/research/other/Okolietal2002CAIS.pdf

According to a poll by Harris Interactive, 95% of business travellers
do not consider work their first priority during flight.
http://www.zensearch.com/travel_leisure/business_travel.shtml

According to Brad Rowland of Wyse technology, due to enhanced security
after 9/11 many business travellers are opting to travel without
laptops.
http://www.wyse.com/about/pr/2002/0311_hawthorn.htm

A CSI/FBI Computer Crime and Security survey found that companies had
$7 million of losses from laptop theft in 2003. 75% indicated that
they experienced financial losses.
http://www.westcoast.com/asiapacific/articles/2003_10/AP_Lost%20Dev_FINAL.pdf

A survey by TechRepublic found that 46 percent of respondents
considered laptops the biggest security challenge.
http://techrepublic.com.com/5100-6301-1029682.html

Laptop theft statistics.
http://www.microsaver.com/html/2178.html

Frank Witt, cites travelling light as a reason for not taking a laptop
when travelling. http://genievirtualoffice.com/roadwarriors.html

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3. 
Number/percentage of people who would prefer a terminal-like solutions
over travelling with their PC?s/laptops.

Get2Net provide terminals giving internet access. Their NetStations
average about 60,000 unique users per month. 60 percent of users are
business travellers.
http://66.102.9.104/search?q=cache:JneM-XSvfvUJ:archives.californiaaviation.org/airport/msg03692.html+%22to+laptops%22+respondents+%22road+warriors%22&hl=en&ie=UTF-8

Get2Net has up to 70 users per kiosk per day. The company has a base
of 200,000 registered customers.
http://www.ephibian.com/articles/news/LocalBusiness_com_-_Phoenix_-_News_-_Ephibian__Get2Net_push_Internet_kiosks.htm

A survey by Nokia found that 19% of businesses surveyed said they
would provide access to company information systems such as databases
and intranets from mobile terminals ? a growth rate of 202%.
http://www.smartconvergence.blogger.com.br/2003_09_14_archive.html

Kiosk Information Systems supply terminals. The average time of a
session is 10.7 minutes. The average income per user is $2.67 with 10
users per day. Each machine makes an average of $26.46 per day.
http://www.kiosks.org/columns/rickmalone.html

According to American Terminal there will be 400,000 terminals in use
by 2006. http://www.franchiseworks.com/american_terminal_computer_and_internet_business_opportunities.htm

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Additional surveys.

A survey by American Express found 42% of North American and 32% of
European business travellers can?t do without their laptops while in
flight. Access to email while on a trip was considered very or quite
important by 75% of travellers. Conversely, 25% said electronic
communication was not very or not at all important. 81% said that
access to mobile phones was very or quite important.
http://www47.americanexpress.com/corporateservices/newsroom/press/press_19.asp

Road warrior survey.
According to a survey by Intel Corp, being without Internet access
while travelling puts business people in an awkward position with
bosses, co-workers and customers who have become accustomed to expect
prompt email responses. When working in the office, 31 per cent of
road warriors reply to email within one hour. When road warriors are
travelling, only seven per cent respond within that same time frame.
Thirty per cent of road warriors do not respond to email for 48 hours
or more while on a business trip. One third of survey respondents said
they have suffered significant consequences such as missed meetings,
lost revenue, irate customers, disappointed family members and even
job termination as a result of not having timely access to the
Internet while on the road.
http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&lid=1&sid=53454&adBanner=Channel


A survey by Opinion Research Inc. found that half of the respondents
never carry laptops but ranked Net access to be very important. 4 out
of 5 prefer to use a computer in their room rather than in a hotel
business center. 73% wanted more options for computer use, email or
internet access in hotels. The main complaints were high access costs
and a dearth of separate modem lines.
http://www.htmagazine.com/archive/JanFeb2000/JanFeb2000_7.shtml

A survey of office workers found that 29% of respondents find people
tapping at laptops in meetings highly annoying.
http://www.mwbex.com/news/news-03-12-02_meetings.html

PC users don?t like to leave home without it.
http://www.devxnews.com/article.php/1013721>


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<Hope this helps.>

Once again, great work -- just what I needed!!  Thanks!!