Virtual Office

This is where you have the opportunity to meet people of high strategic value, located in different places. And the disadvantages are among the disadvantages of having an Office virtual are: feeling of isolation. When employees do not have continuous contact with other persons belonging to the company, they lose the feeling of being part of it. Fear of the loss of labour. The anguish before unemployment affects not only to those who have no work, but also who despite having work, fear becoming future unemployed.

In this context, fear can impair the labour climate, at the time was experiencing guilt by peers who are dismissed. It is then that the worker suffers a work climate of insecurity and begin the unwanted changes in family dynamics. Decay of the mood. The worker reduces its energy and decreases its activity, impairs the ability to enjoy their work, interests, and concentration. You may also submit tiredness.

Family tension. Some nervousness may occur in the family, due to the above factors, which may lead to disputes. These disadvantages have relationship with motivational and psychological aspects, so it must be special attention both at the stage of selection of applicants to teleworkers, as support, feedback, motivation and communication activities. A virtual office to function depends on a viable strategy. For this purpose certain points should be taken into account: providing computing resources. The company must provide adequate equipment to teleworkers to better develop their functions. Provide access to sources of information. If the employee information required for research work, the company must provide sources that the employee requires to complete its activities. Provide different from computer supplies. This involves providing all elements of stationery for the Office’s activities regularly. Measures taken to transmit phone calls. Here they have to effectively manage calls remote staff might have the physical Office. Use flames of Conference. In this way will be allowed more than two people simultaneously participate in a telephone conversation. Schedule regular meetings. The company must schedule meetings for all staff, report the reason for the meeting, and foster a sense of community among employees. Such meetings should be scheduled frequently. Follow a routine of work. Remote workers must commit to work during certain hours a day. Your work must be performed in a room away from distractions. Today we live in an increasingly competitive environment and the virtual office offers the possibility of expanding the scale of activities with one increase of less than proportional costs. In summary, the virtual office provides not only benefits companies in the field of services, but also the manufacturing in everything that relates to the work of the Office. Rent a virtual office represents an important opportunity to improve productivity and reduce costs. With information: Mauricio Lefcovich, consultant in operations management tuobra.unam.