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Sari Stenfors

Virtual Worker Statistics - 1 views

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    Virtual workers are more productive and happier than traditional workers. This information was provided by Kate Lister and Additional information was taken from the whitepaper: Results-based Management: The Key to Unlocking Talent and Increasing Productivity.
hnauheimer

Closing the Gap - Leadership in the Virtual Environment | Mannaz.com - 0 views

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    It wasn't that long ago-in the memory of most workers today-that people "went" to work. The work place was actually a "place" and people went there to earn a living. Some people still do. If you assemble circuit boards for Intel or automobiles for BMW, you will go to the place where the tools you need to do your job are kept. For the rest of us, a change has taken place that has fundamentally altered the way that work gets done. A typical project, for example, is planned in a series of meetings, launched in a rented conference room in an airport hotel, executed in who knows where, and managed using email and on-line tools. Sales meetings, to cite another example, take place on conference calls not in conference rooms.
Stephan Dohrn

Global survey hints at uptick in worker unhappiness - USATODAY.com - 0 views

  • In the U.S., the most valued benefits are still focused around health care and retirement, he said, but employers also should think of other ways to make jobs more attractive, especially for younger workers who might have different preferences. They tend to favor things like flexible schedules more than their older colleagues. "Maybe it means Ping-Pong tables in the breakroom or more attractive workplaces," Foley said. "But it also could mean doing a better job communicating the value of more traditional benefits to them."
Stephan Dohrn

Get more done by being a better listener - Online Collaboration - 0 views

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    Listening is an essential skill for any virtual worker - even more important than in traditional team settings
hnauheimer

The Future Workspace. Perspectives on Mobile and Collaborative Working. - 0 views

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    It is a 100 page PDF describing scenarios for the future of work: Scenario 1: Global product creation in a networked company Scenario 2: E-professionals in ad-hoc self-organising teams Scenario 3: Coordinating distributed work of individual worker Scenario 4: Community-based collaborative workspace Scenario 5: Mobile workplaces in a collaborative business network Scenario 6: Mobile competence workers in global supply chain
Stephan Dohrn

Why Remote Workers Are More (Yes, More) Engaged - Scott Edinger - Harvard Business Review - 1 views

  • The team members who were not in the same location with their leaders were more engaged and committed — and rated the same leader higher — than team members sitting right nearby.
Stephan Dohrn

The 10 key skills for the future of work - Online Collaboration - 0 views

  • The Palo Alto, Calif.–based nonprofit research center focuses on long-term forecasting and recently released a report titled “Future Work Skills 2020″ (available for free download here) that analyzes some of the key drivers reshaping work — including WebWorkerDaily’s greatest hits like connectivity, smart machines and new media — coming up not with specific, recommended professional paths but instead with broad skills that will help workers adapt to the changing career landscape. What are they?
Sari Stenfors

Knowledge Worker: 25 Prozent mehr Produktivität mit sozialen Techniken - Netz... - 0 views

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    Study on productivity gain of 25% by using social media. 
Stephan Dohrn

Why Your Company Needs A Chief Collaboration Officer | Fast Company - 1 views

  • Collaboration. It’s a $1 billion industry, according to an ABI Research study on worker mobility and enterprise social collaboration. And it's projected to grow to $3.5 billion by 2016. No wonder lots of ink has been spilled on this business buzzword on everything from how to start (hint: build trust) to doing it better with social platforms, to using it as a way to achieve that holy grail of business: innovation.
  • there’s a big difference between working alongside other staff members and actually collaborating.
Sari Stenfors

Building Community in the Virtual Workplace - 0 views

  • Work is a profoundly social activity. The design problem of cyberspace has thus become how to develop information systems that support work socially
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    Building community in the virtual workplace by Jennifer Carpenter
Stephan Dohrn

How To Build And Manage A Virtual Team - 1 views

  • Virtual teams are becoming more and more common as business owners use the internet for efficiency and cost-cutting.  Workers can be in different states, countries, or even continents, a feat that would have been unmanageable just a few years ago. Here are a few tips to help you manage your employees, wherever they may be.
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