Uniting the Virtual Workforce

While your colleague might be sitting just a few feet from you, how far apart are you really? Karen Sobel Lojeski, founder of consultancy Virtual Distance International, and Richard R. Reilly, a professor of management and chief technology officer at VDI, have an answer: It depends. In Uniting the Virtual Workforce, part of Microsoft's Executive Leadership Series, the two define distance in three ways: physical, operational and affinity (the last of which includes cultural or social barriers to interaction). In the Digital Age, as consultants are on the road and on their PDAs, the authors maintain that employees need to find ways to still connect with each other. As such, they offer ideas to firm leadership to spearhead these efforts, all while still benefiting from what going virtual has to offer the bottom line.

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