Educating Productive Users of Technology - - 4 views
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When we are trying to convey ideas, get buy-in, share values or challenge someone we need to pick a richer medium. Sometimes only face-to-face will do - hence the outrage when employees are notified of their redundancy via SMS message from a gutless manager
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Sobel-Lojeski's work and her conception of Virtual Distance shows us that there are lessons to be learned from the way technology is making the workforce in some businesses less productive
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Sobel-Lojeski has called this phenomenon "Virtual Distance" because the death of (physical) distance due to the use of communications technologies just heralded a new kind of interpersonal detachment.