TheCustomer

I stumbled into Vyew.com Collaboration and Live Conferencing™
: it’s a nice looking tool.

But though I can see opportunities to use services like this, it’s rare to find that the folk on the other side of the screen are as keen. Maybe they’re just not comfortable with virtual work - or perhaps they feel they’d be at a disadvantage. Certainly, the culture has yet to catch up with the available toolset.

Yesterday’s launch of the Orange Future Foundation report found a number of interesting aspects to virtual working:

“over half of the working population already have some sort of flexible working arrangement, but 23% of workers have no formal agreement with their employer about how they do this”… so business’ formal work practices are behind behavoiur, in the typical development pattern of technology first, then behaviour, then legislation.

and
‘A key challenge is how notions of effectiveness are being redefined. Being the first or the last in the office can no longer be a measure of an employee’s commitment and productivity and managing a flexible workforce will mean worrying less about how employees work and more about what they produce.’
Hooray
At last
Bring it on
Death to presenteeism.

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