...wrote: “Love is work made visible.” Whether he meant that love is work or that work is the expression of love, it’s a good reminder that our work and the place where we do that work is a huge and important part of our lives”. (http://jessarch.wordpress.com/2012/10/12/thesis-statement/). What are the benefits, features, and other aspects of office of the future? Some of the benefits, features, and other aspects of a virtual office that I want to take a look at are: the definition of a virtual office, technology and it’s role, people’s view of the future office, Microsoft’s view, an effective workspace, the flexibility of a virtual office, and what you might find/see in your office of the future. “A virtual office is a combination of off-site live communication and address services that allow users to reduce traditional office costs while maintaining business professionalism.[1] Frequently the term is confused with “office business centers” or “executive suites” which demand a conventional lease whereas a true virtual office does not require that expense” (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_office). Virtual office is the new office of the future. Although a virtual office has been around for a while, it has not been used by everyone because when the concept was adopted, there was not much technology developed yet to support it. Now, with the increasing amount of technology for home use, now companies can move more jobs to this form of an office. The most common...
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...The Empowerment of the Future of Women “Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult”, Charlotte Whitton (The Soul Sisters). Hilary Clinton, Sarah Palin, and Oprah Winfrey are just a few names who have taken women leadership to the next level. But why does progress still seem to be a struggle for other women? Men seem to be dominating the political world in the U.S., and females seem to be striving to be the next powerhouses, but their professional image seems to be standing in the way of their future. Although women have made significant progress in obtaining low level leadership positions, their professional image continues to prevent them from receiving these same positions in higher forms. Political standards for future female candidates have become increasingly difficult to fulfill. The claim made for women not obtaining these higher level positions is simply because women are “less hierarchical, more cooperative and collaborative, and more oriented increasing other’s self-worth” (Eagly, pg. 2). Candidates for the job must be “likeable and tough” (Braude), which is seemingly become more and more difficult for female leaders these days when men are strong participants with these characteristics. When one wants to put a female and a male in a rink together, who would come out on top? The obvious choice would be the male, but it is not time to give a female the chance? The opportunity for women leaders...
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...synonym for working with ease and freedom at your own time and at your own pace. No work hours restriction, no office timings, no office attire to stick to, just a deadline for the work to be finished in the given time line. According to education-portal.com, telecommuting is working from a remote location outside of a traditional office. The remote location can be from home, a coffee shop, or hotel room. The Internet, faxes, phones, webcams and instant messaging are some of the technological advances that enable this type of work arrangement. Most telecommuters work in the financial industry, high-tech industry and the communications industry (What is Telecommuting). Telecommuting: Advantages When employees work from an environment that makes them feel more comfortable they are bound to be more productive. Telecommuting employees have the freedom to work from any place and any time. Telecommuting employees also need not travel to their offices at a daily basis. By being in a solitary environment free from distractions, would surely increase focus and productivity. Sometimes setting up infrastructure to support the staff could be off putting, cumbersome and expensive, letting the telecommuting employees handle the infrastructure hassles on their own. Moreover, when employees don’t have to commute; they don’t occupy office space. By this the company doesn’t have to increase office space, invest in office stationary, and invest in energy requirements and many more things. This saves...
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...at the Paperless Office concept was first introduced in the 70-ties, as a futuristic office work-style, when the first personal computers were introduced. Advances in information & communication technology has since then made the Paperless Office a feasible reality. The advantages of going paperless are many and undeniable. LEARN MORE ABOUT PAPERLESS The terms "paperless," "electronic," and "digital" are often used interchangeably to describe work which previously was done with paper, but which now has been adapted to information & communication technology (ICT) devices and software. The Information Technology Association of America (ITAA) has defined information technology (IT) in the electronic era as "the study, design, development, implementation, support or management of computer-based information systems, particularly software applications and computer hardware." IT entails processes involving the use of computers and software to create, convert, store, process, transmit, and retrieve information securely. The term has recently been broadened to ICT (Information and Communications Technology), so as to include the idea of electronic communication. To be paperless means essentially that the traditional paper-based practices-such as writing, note taking, reading, editing, communicating, and even drawing-are instead performed electronically with ICT devices and software. Much has been said and written about the paperless office in recent years, and the rapid development...
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...A New Kind of Office for the New Generation Jennifer Osborne Kaplan University A New Kind of Office for the New Generation For the longest time, office jobs consisted of the same old thing. Employees would get up, get ready, sit in traffic, go into work, punch in, and sit in their cubicle or office until the day ended and went home to get ready to start the process all over again. Now, things are starting to change the offices that we have been accustomed to. As technology grows and expands so does the environment in which we use it. In regards to technology and the office, the two have begun to merge to one. Companies, the existing and the future, are choosing a virtual based type of business. Most, if not all, of the company is controlled and operated through technology and the internet. Converting over has become the popular and innovative thing for business owners to do. Aside from not being able to walk into a building, from the customer’s viewpoint, it goes unnoticed whether a company is virtual or not. Virtual based companies have become more popular and show significant benefits that most find incomparable. Virtual companies reap benefits not seen by actual businesses. These companies save money that would normally spend on real estate, overhead, supplies, training, and other in-office necessities. Even Davenport and Pearlson (1998) knew many, many, years ago that, “Home offices accomplish the cost-savings objective by replacing company real estate with the employees”...
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...of the office into two offices, the manager would like to ensure that each current employee has been trained thoroughly and a set training plan is instilled for new employees to come. The manager, the trainer, and the lawyer have created this plan to ensure that everything that needs to be learned will be listed and thoroughly covered and taught in the best available manner. The employees should be able to complete the procedure list with in five months without direct supervision. By re-training and training new employees, this will benefit the organization by improving the end results of the work being produced, time lines being met, and each employee being able to carry another person’s position should a fellow colleague be absent or let go. It will also create a hostile free work environment since every employee will be working towards the same goal and promote team work should one of their peers fall behind. In order to accomplish this goal, the employees will be doing hands on training with a model employee/ trainer. By doing so, this will ensure that the employee/ employee’s will learn the correct work behaviors, the method that the work is to be produced in, the time lines for each assignment, and the requirement of the document being error free. Since there is only one main shift in the office which is 8 am to 6 pm, and the current employees still need to produce work, the trainer will have two training sessions every other day. Aside from getting regular work done, this...
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...How MMORPG companies cope with the enhancement of technology: and it's affects on employees Ahmed Shairaf 000025587 Diploma in Business Office Administration MGT001 Semester 2 14th March 2011 Table of Contents page no. 1.0 Acknowledgment ……………………………………………………………..3 2.0 Abstract ……………………………………………………………………….3 3.0 Introduction ……………………………………………………………….......3 4.0 Virtual Organization …………………………………………………………..4 5.0 Traditional vs. Virtual Office …………………………………………………4 5.1 Location ……………………………………………………………….4 5.2 Instantly Operational …………………………………………………..5 5.3 Time Management/Prioritize …………………………………………..5 6.0 Evolution of Modern Office ……………………………………………………5 6.1 Collaborative technology ……………………………………………….6 6.2 Intranet and Extranet ……………………………………………………6 7.0 Customer Service ……………………………………………………………….6 8.0 Future of Office Workers ……………………………………………………….7 9.0 Conclusion ………………………………………………………………………7 Acknowledgment I would like to appreciate the support for my friends from around the globe who played MMORPG with me in helping me accomplish this report. A special thanks to my cousin brother for proof reading and aiding me in different ways to achieve the goals of the report. Abstract This report is about how the information technology is changing within time and how it has affected the MMORPG companies. In this paper, you will find that not only the organizational...
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...Five Trends that Are Dramatically Changing Work and the Workplace By Joe Aki Ouye, Ph.D. Co-Founder and Partner New Ways of Working, LLC The Changing Nature of Work My wife, a manager at Hewlett-Packard, usually has a two minute commute—a thirty foot walk from the kitchen up to her office. She goes “to the central office” about once every other week, more to keep in touch socially rather than to formally collaborate. Although she only meets face-to-face with her globally-based team members about once per year, she has an audio conference with them weekly. As HP’s work force grows and becomes more global, she is a highly sought after manager. She has learned how to work with her distributed team, setting clear directions, communicating often and clearly, and, most importantly, creating activities to engender team trust and cohesion. Most workers today do not work like my wife; most still commute to and from traditional, centralized offices and work with teams in close proximity. Nevertheless, more and more of us are—or will be—working in both non-traditional ways and places, ranging from relying on adaptable furniture and hoteling desks at the central office, to satellite offices, offshore offices, and telework from home. According to a recent benchmarking study by our research consortium, The New Ways of Working, many organizations are formalizing “Alternative Workplace” programs that combine nontraditional work practices, settings and locations.1 Almost...
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... gang life and sex trades, and other problems. These problems can help minors learn something help them be better adults in the future. It can help them see and feel that they have a chance in life. Engaging with families involves releasing false assumptions. Agencies must assess and respond to the real needs of the teens and Minors. Many communities want the juvenile justice system to change. Some want the teens and minors off the street and some want them to get help. Many want law enforcement to be more involved and courts to help them. Law enforcement will do all they can to help minors get off the street. They help by Engaging families and communities in a form of restorative manner Building capacity of community-based organizations and parent advocates; and this can Includes ways of impacted communities on how advisory boards and commissions on how it can be impoved. There are many juvenile programs such as job programs, education, and drug programs. There are computer training that can help teen and minors learn computers, Many Teens and Minors can learn a trade such as fixing cars, as a way that they can learn something new. Many juveniles come from bad backgrounds such as family, sexual abuse, gang life and sex trades, and other problems. These problems can help minors learn something help them be better adults in the future. It can help them see and feel that they have a chance in life. Engaging with families involves releasing false assumptions. Agencies...
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...in the world) to relocate the London Headquarter offices from the central business district of London to a redeveloped business park at Canary Wharf. The current lease of the offices in London was due to expire in 4years and the firm was growing fast in clientele and employees exceeding the London office’s capacity hence space constraints. A decision is imminent. The organization needs to occupy and maintain offices that would portray a premium brand image and provide a conducive working environment for the employees. The relocation to Canary Wharf is a gamble. However, the Clifford Chance London offices is a historic and traditional corporate location with the best services, prestige and comfort associated with the central business district of London. Most critically, relocation away from Central London would affect proximity to key clients, courthouses, litigation offices all of where the most critical Clifford Chance businesses are conducted. Clifford Chance LLP’s Priorities Peter’s objectives are clearly evident from the problem statement. The firm needed to provide space that: Offered the highest quality work environment in order to provide a conducive work environment to keep and attract talented employees and Convey the firm’s heritage of prestige and top notch legal services to the growing clientele hence maintaining a leading position in the law business. Courses of Action The London offices cannot remain in the same location due to the growth...
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...to think about it one is likely to think “what a stupid question, that has an obvious answer”, but you would be wrong. A person that works in a company will most likely spend more time there then at home. It shouldn't be to much of a predicament if the person holding the wedding gets is friends with everyone at work, which might happen if you work for a small company, and the work space consists of a small work force. What if you don’t like some one in your work place? or even if one feels that the time they spend with their colleagues is more then enough? It really depends on the person who is about to take the ultimate step in a relationship. One can invite everyone and just have to deal with those who are not to their liking, which will prevent any future resentments. One can invite just the ones they get along with, this with the notion that others will find out about the happening, and might result in future quarrels in the future. A politically correct approach can be taken by not inviting their co-workers to the wedding using the expenses as an excuse. As a person that has never worked in an office environment, and hasn’t even pondered on the idea of getting engaged, it is hard to considered the approach that I would take. Based on school environment birthdays, I believe if I was eccomicly able to do so I would invite everyone in the office, and ignore thoose would did not please me. It all depends on ones personality, and also position in the company, for if you are the...
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...Interactive workplace, the Interactive technology that is used in education and training, how lives are being changed by te use of Interactive technology and what is needed by businesses in the future to keep pace with the ever changing environment of the workplace. Interactive technology advantages and disadvantages for corporations will be looked at. This research will also look at some ways how Interactive technologies popularity amongst business owners who are putting this technology to work in order to bring in customers and increase revenue. Let’s face it; technology has made the lives of everyone much easier. There are so many technological advances I don’t even know where to start. However there is one technology invention that has intrigued me for a long time, Interactive workspaces. The definition of Interactive is “(of a computer program or system) interacting with a human user, often in a conversational way, to obtain data or commands and to give immediate results or updated information” (Interactive, n.d.). Workspace is defined as “space used or required for one’s work, as in an office or home” (Interactive, n.d.). Has technology come this far to do one’s work for them or to augment one’s work by making it easier to accomplish? “Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for human masters” (Colossians 3:23). The first Interactive technology that brought my enthusiastic level to an all-time high when...
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...for marketing high-value houses throughout the UK. It was created in 1950 by Cees (pronounced “case”) Vermeer, a Dutch surveyor who moved to England in 1946. He opened his first office in Exeter, and was considered ahead of his time in prioritising fairness and ethics over profit. Estate agents were poorly regarded, even in the 1950’s, but unfair practices had no place in Vermeer. Cees loved to focus on older, more characterful houses, but as the agency grew, it inevitably began to deal with rented and commercial property. By the time Cees retired in 1987, he had built a prosperous business which was well-known for fairness, market knowledge and professionalism, and for caring equally about staff and clients, both buyers and sellers. The tasteful Vermeer logo was regarded everywhere as a mark of quality and service. Cees remained on the Board – acting as an “elder statesman” and sharing his advice, experience and fine principles – until his death in 2000. After Cees From 1987 onwards, Vermeer expanded rapidly. The company now has 64 offices with 3,000 staff, and ranks among the top five UK agencies. A handful of smaller agencies have merged with Vermeer, and activities now include financial services, property development and consultancy. Vermeer is widely seen as the ‘best’ estate agent for which to work. Cees Vermeer’s values – combining integrity, professionalism and entrepreneurial spirit, with genuine care for staff – remain to this day a cornerstone of the public image of Vermeer...
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...assistant because I always wanted to work in the health profession. I enjoyed working with people since I was a child and now I want to be a dental assistant. Although dental assisting is an exciting career and highly rewarding, the most important excitement is I like helping people. Since last year dental assisting became my highly professional career than other career, like nursing or another medical profession. In my essay, I will argue about the pros and cons of the dental assisting profession. To get in the dental assistant program for certificate, there is a one-year training program. They require you to have a high school diploma or GED to start the class. If you have financial aid to pay for your class or for book, that’s good. If you are not eligible for financial aid because of your income, you must pay for your class before the due date. Once you are done with training, they give you a test at the end and if you pass the test you can get a job with your certificate. Students are assigned to work in local dental...
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...The Boss less office An article for HR MESH – The monthly e-magazine by the HR Forum@SCMHRD THEME: Creativity in HR Submitted by: Sunil Pandey PGP1 Mob: 9920302951 Batch 2012-14 GOA INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT The Boss less office: Future Reality or Dream. ‘Every organization has to prepare for the abandonment of everything it does.’ Peter Drucker Are you angry at your boss? Be boss less... I have always loved my bosses, but most of the time we all have some or other kind of problems with our bosses. Imagine work environments where there are no bosses and no titles, where employees decide among themselves which projects to pursue and which people to hire and fire, and where each employee is responsible for deciding his or her own salary, raises and vacation days. Sounds different and quiet awkward but this is the recent talk of town of an innovation in HR. The boss less vision is being discussed on both theoretical and practical terms. Some see it as the democracy of the office place. E.g.: Valve Corp, a videogame maker in Washington State, has been boss free since 1996. It also has no managers and no official project assignments. How do the 300 employees coordinate their work? They self manage: they recruit each other for worthwhile projects, and they roll their desks around (all are on wheels) to reconfigure their work teams as they wish. Salaries and raises are set by...
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