Such a place can range from a home office to a large office building or factory. For industrialized societies, the workplace is one of the most important social spaces other than the home, constituting "a central concept for several entities: the worker and [their] family, the employing organization, the customers of the organization, and the society as a whole".[1] The development of new communication technologies has led to the development of the virtual workplace or remote workplace, a workplace that is not located in any one physical space.