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What is Virtual Workplace

Chapter 41
Handbook of Research on Virtual Workplaces and the New Nature of Business Practices
A virtual workplace is a workplace that is not located in any one physical space; rather, several workplaces are technologically connected (via the Internet) without regard to geographic boundaries. Employees are thus able to interact and work with one another in a collaborated environment regardless of where they are in the world. A virtual workplace decreases unnecessary costs by integrating technology processes, people processes, and online processes (Wikipedia, 2007).
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Semi Virtual Workplaces in German Financial Service Enterprises
Heinz D. Knoell (Leuphana University, Germany)
Copyright: © 2008 |Pages: 12
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59904-893-2.ch041
Abstract
In this chapter we will present semi virtual workplace (SVWP) concepts in the German financial sector (FS) industry. We give a short introduction into the problem and an overview of the German FS market and its recent developments under European Community (EC) legislation. In the next sections we present three German FS companies that apply successfully semi virtual workplace concepts, followed by detailed descriptions of two semi virtual concepts: strict alternating use of a workplace by two employees (every other day an employee is in his home office) and the concept of the business club, where the employees choose daily their workplace out of a workplace pool when they work on-site. In the last section we compare the concepts and draw conclusion. Further we outline our future research.
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Chapter 47
Virtual Political Office Where Gender and Culture Meet
This is a workplace that is not located in any one physical space. Rather, several workplaces are technologically connected (via the net) without regard to geographic boundaries. Employees are thus able to interact and work with one another in a collaborated environment regardless of where they are in the world. A virtual workplace decreases unnecessary costs by integrating technology processes, people processes, and online processes. In this chapter, personal pages of politics are rendered as peculiar virtual political offices for their owners providing great opportunities to communicate with their target audiences.
Published in Chapter: Virtual Political Office Where Gender and Culture Meet; From: Handbook of Research on Virtual Workplaces and the New Nature of Business Practices
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Chapter 1
Gains and Losses in the Rhetoric of Virtual Workplaces
Information centers in an information age; people within them work at a distance with the goal of knowledge transfer toward specific purposes.
Published in Chapter: Gains and Losses in the Rhetoric of Virtual Workplaces; From: Handbook of Research on Virtual Workplaces and the New Nature of Business Practices
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Human Resource Development and Technology Integration
A work environment where organizational members perform tasks in the virtual environment enabled by Internet- or Web-based technologies.
Published in Chapter: Human Resource Development and Technology Integration; From: Encyclopedia of E-Leadership, Counseling and Training
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Chapter 50
Reconsidering the Lay-Expert Audience Divide
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