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As our culture continues its change from the Industrial Time to the Digital Time, new challenges are being released into the work place, giving climb to a fresh occurrence, Virtual Distance, made up of three major axes: physical distance - geographic, time zone, or organizational; functional distance - multitasking, communication problems, and technical issues; and affinity distance - ethnic variations, interdependence distance, working associations, and social distance. Part of Wiley’s Microsoft Exec Control series, Uniting the Virtual Labor force introduces the concept of Virtual Distance showing businesses the definite costs to doing work in a virtual environment. After that it goes a step further and will be offering proven options for measuring these costs and help with handling them. Wherever your company is within its understanding of Virtual Distance, Uniting the Virtual Labor force covers: • The way the change to a “virtual” workforce creates real challenges to collaboration and innovation as well as how to measure and control the impact • How Virtual Distance impacts productivity and development and offers information and guidance about how to manage these new risks • A historical point of view on “distance,” exposing the so-called “fatality of distance” as a misconception, and exhibiting how our understanding of distance in the virtual work place must include internal, as well as physical, spots Today, virtually all organizations are fighting the impact that virtualization is having on the work place. Yet, a complete comprehension of the costs of virtualization is missing. Uniting the Virtual Labor force: Transforming Control and Development in the Globally Integrated Enterprise presents an improved understanding of Virtual Distance and the impact it has on people and performance in today’s work place, providing the essential tools necessary for lessening its impact going forward.
