Citrix, just put out a great whitepaper sharing the latest research from the Future of Work on how the mobile workforce is growing and fundamentally changing how organizations staff and get work accomplished in highly globalized and mobilized world. Below is an Executive Summary of the report. For the full report click on the link below to download.
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Managing People You Can’t See: Connecting and Engaging Distributed Teams
A Citrix – Go- To- Meeting Corporate White PaperBy | James Ware |Executive Director|
The Future of Work
Executive Summary
Jeff Immelt, the CEO of General Electric said it best: the economy today is going througha fundamental “reset.” The old rules just don’t apply anymore. We are seeing a genuine explosion of distributed/mobile/flexible work across all market segments, including large organizations, small businesses, and free agents/entrepreneurs. In fact, our research suggests that fully 15% of the U.S. workforce now spends one or more days a week working outside a corporate facility, and we project that number to grow beyond 25% within the next five years. (1) Describe the economic “reset” that is changing the rules for creating value;
(2) Discuss the rise of mobile work and virtual teams and the challenges to
managers;
(3) Suggest a basic set of guidelines for keeping the members of distributed teams
in touch with each other, with their joint activity, and with the organization as a whole.
Yet managing mobile workers and distributed teams can be an enormously difficult challenge. When your staff is working asynchronously and at great distances from each other, keeping them focused on their tasks and connected with each other and the larger organization often seems impossible. But connecting and engaging distributed, or virtual, teams It’s not simple, but it is certainly doable; and the payoff in increased productivity and performance makes the effort well worthwhile.
In this brief white paper we will:
