The Virtual Workplace

摘要: From the Book: The current merging of computer and communication technologies is facilitating trend toward virtual workplace. As growth in workplace accelerates, organizations face new challenges to cope with their organizational structure. Some these include understanding emergent work environment, changing social order, dynamic requirements knowledge worker. It is, indeed, challenging for manage complexity structure that exacerbated by increasing mobility type office workers. For example, a challenge which most difficulty attract retain good skilled workforce. To effectively meet challenges, management needs develop strategies support what called "moving where people are, rather than is." Thus, order maintain its status quo also be comparatively competitive, not only understand but must take innovative steps adopt forms arrangements accommodate increasingly diverse The recent rapid ongoing advent information infrastructure superhighways many nations prompting fast transformation The term workplace, used this book, defined as an omnipotent encapsulates all aspects culture logical well physical facets working life. An once based exclusively on contact process being transformed one goods services are accessible without need face-to-face other people. Indeed, have enabled More interestingly, telecommunication technology glue makes societies possible. However, alone does guarantee viability informed population use technological power intelligently deliberately. It interesting note companies no longer talking about "work at home" programs, rather, they speaking "working anywhere, anytime, anyone." concept quickly becoming reality connectivity, collaborations, easy using laptops, facsimiles, cellular telephones, networks, electronic mail, voice mail. may standard mode conducting commerce 21st century. After all, it matter whether critical voice-mail or message comes from home office, client's airport, middle traffic jam? Such transformations minimal effects some people, yet others, bring radical changes workspace lifestyles habits. Since there clear definition who falls into category, both fear paranoia people's subsistence future. equidistant position exists expected participate actively impact when triggered design chapters book discuss concepts effort explore forces driving phenomenon consequential issues problems will influence globalization Virtual Workplace provides forum practitioners, researchers policy makers exchanging ideas adoption leading-edge related individuals, groups, organizations, societies, nations. Chapters drawn variety disciplines discussing range topics corporations, communities, teleworking. Written provocative, analytical, empirical, case-based study approach, help us advancing our relationship technologies, world.