Only if there's a need for the simplification
This "solution" presupposes that future office workers will need to have access to their work data & apps from multiple locations. If that's not a problem for the worker, however, then there's no "need" for this so-called 'solution'. Not to mention I have yet to hear any proposal to provide tablets, let alone smartphones, with the ability to hook directly into wired networks, thereby avoiding the power drain of maintaining Wi-Fi/3G/4G connections.
So, unless the future prognosticators are going to claim that we will all be expected to be on call 24/7 by our employers, and forced to take our work-provided smartphones along wherever we go -- including on our so-called "vacations" -- then I don't see this being implemented on a widespread basis.
