Do virtual workplaces ease collaboration?
It is not necessary that colleagues should be in the same office any more. The screaming advance of globalisation is creating more and more geographically dispersed workplaces. This entails burgeoning issues of communication and collaboration among staffers spanning myriad countries and continents. The burning question is, how do they come together. Imagine a bunch of 50 technicians, project managers and supervisors e-mailing each other continuously to debate ideas, discuss issues and resolve problems! For such dynamic and constant communications, we cannot rely on phone calls, faxes and mails any longer. These methods are not only onerous and time-consuming, but costly and inefficient too. As one long-sufferer complains, “Since we all were not in the same building, we would end up calling and e-mailing each other. It just wasn’t an efficient way to have full-on debates.”.But can we afford to have fragmented processes and disconnected applications which cause projects to move at a snai
