Types of Virtual Workplaces
Individual virtual workplaces vary in how they apply existing technology to facilitate team cooperation. Three popular approaches are:
1. Telecommuting: the availability and use of communications technologies, such as the internet, to work in an offsite location.
2. Hot desk environment: Employees are not given individual desks; rather each day employees are allocated to a desk where they can access the internet, email and computer network files. This is similar to hotelling: recognizing that employees spend more time at the clients' office rather than at the employer's office, employees are not assigned a permanent desk.
3. Virtual team: the collaboration of employees working closely together and in constant contact but are physically located in different parts of the world.
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