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Knowledge Anywhere Founder Predicts the Future: How Online Training Has Changed from 2001

KnowledgeAnywhere

Even our executive vice president of business development, Bill Strelke, uses flex times. Implementing a virtual company makes takes more than just sending everyone home and downsizing office space. The real-time aspect is more important than you might suspect because of the sense of isolation that can impact virtual workers.

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Toward the Future: Adapting to the characteristics of Workforce 2.0

eFront

And why more and more people want to join virtual teams who communicate via Skype while sipping coffee in their pajamas. Then, work 9 ‘til 5, Monday to Friday, until it’s time to retire to the Canary Islands for sun and sand. Develop strong online communication and performance management processes to control a remote team.

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The Slow, But Promising, Rise of Telecommuting

CLO Magazine

Some of these articles contain misperceptions about telecommuting, including one by the Vancouver Sun that reports Working from home raises productivity, once crumbs are cleared from keyboards: Lack of chit-chat from adjoining cubicles reduces the chances of distraction. Telecommuting can work if the company goes in prepared.

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