Category: Telecommuting
One big theme to emerge out of our conversation last week about the future of the workplace was remote working. I thought it would be beneficial to start this week off by thinking about the disadvantages of remote work and the technologies and policies that may be able to mitigate some of those problems.
Sponsor
Continue
On Monday we asked you about the workplace of the future - today, it's time to take a look at your comments. The biggest theme was remote work - several of you expect the workplace to be increasingly virtualized. Others suggested a few problems with this idea. "Swarming," as Gartner called it, was also seen as important - for better or worse. And could the workplace start to be more of a "FunPlace"?Continue
Personal outsourcing isn’t quite the hot topic that it was two years ago. With virtual assistant firms available left and right, could-be assistants have become less of a unique work accessory and much more of a sustainable, ubiquitous business addition.
What was once a quirky but useful tool for the digital age has become standard — nowadays it’s rare to find a small design firm without a personal outsourcing strategy.
Continue
Dimdim today launches Dimdim 6.0, the latest version of its browser-based web conferencing tool. Particularly impressive in the new release are the improved screensharing capabilities — thanks to an updated myScreen plugin — and the ability to host four-way video conferences.Continue
Online meeting service provider Dimdim launched a new product for small and medium-sized businesses yesterday, going up against players like WebEx and GoToMeeting.
The new offering, called Dimdim Business, boasts the ability to host Web-based meetings with as many as thousands of participants, multiple rooms and hassle-free, no-plugin-necessary access for meeting participants. Continue
Dimdim — a provider of well-designed web conferencing tools that we’ve covered previously — yesterday rolled out DimDim Business, an edition of its software designed for small and medium-sized businesses. It provides a web conferencing solution that’s scalable to thousands of participants.Continue
One thing that struck me while reading this interesting Guardian article by Phil Daoust about the rise in the number of people working from home were the figures claimed for the increases in productivity of organizations with telecommuting employees.Continue
The web work revolution is changing the way people are employed and how employees think about employers: An increasing number of people are working as freelancers, and employees are switching jobs far more rapidly than they have in the past. How, then, do we migrate the established “rules of work” to this new scenario? How do we ensure that everyone has the same advocacy, the same protection from abusive employers that traditional employees have? And how can employers make sure that they attract and retain the best talent?Continue
Here are some interesting posts from around the ‘Net to catch up with over the weekend:Continue
