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  1. PDF EFFECTS OF REMOTE WORK ON THE WORKPLACE AND WORKERS

    Effects of remote work on the workplace and workers How quality of life and work are affected by being away from the office and what can manag-ers and supervisors do about it Bachelor of Business Administration Abstract This thesis is a research on effects of remote work on workers and the workplace and how workers react to a switch to remote work.

  2. PDF CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, NORTHRIDGE Managing Virtual Teams

    This thesis is based on a systematic review of secondary data available on the topic of virtual teams, mostly from the last two decades, with the goal of answering the question of how ... office work to virtual work at a scale never before seen in public administration in the United . States (Gallando, 2022; Parker et al., 2020). While the ...

  3. Employee Job Satisfaction and Attitudes in Virtual Workplaces

    telecommuting. Virtual teams function differently than face-to-face teams (Gera et al., 2013). Virtual work is often complex, with team members often assigned to more than one project or work effort (Cummings & Haas, 2012; Schmidt, 2014), thus the individual must effectively allocate their time (Cummings & Haas, 2012). There are significant

  4. An Exploratory Case Study of How Remote Employees Experience Workplace

    2014). Organizational culture experts have called this increase in remote work a culture of engagement (Piaget, 2013; Pierce, 2013; Roark, 2013), that is, a work environment where the leaders create a culture defined by meaningful work, deep employee engagement, job and organizational fit, and strong authentic leadership (West, 2013).

  5. Factors Affecting the Productivity and Satisfaction of Virtual Workers

    managers of virtual workers. Both virtual workers and managers of virtual workers tended to view the factors that affect productivity and job satisfaction similarly: Working virtually benefits virtual workers and employers, having a flexible work schedule enables employees to lower work-related costs and maintain a healthier work-life balance, and

  6. The Relationship Between Remote Work and Job Satisfaction: The

    The Relationship Between Remote Work and Job Satisfaction: The Mediating Roles of Perceived Autonomy, Work-Family Conflict, and Telecommuting Intensity Marie Antoinette Schall ... I would like to thank my thesis chair, Dr. Altovise Rogers, for her guidance and genuine support thru the entire thesis process, along with second chair, Dr. Megumi

  7. (PDF) THE EVOLUTION OF REMOTE WORK: ANALYZING STRATEGIES ...

    This article explores the evolution of remote work, analyzing the strategies for effective virtual team management and collaboration. The discussion encompasses factors driving the rise of remote ...

  8. PDF Virtual Teams: The Impact of Varying Levels of Virtuality On Project

    A Thesis Submitted in partial fulfillment Of the requirements for the degree of ... Mckinsey & Company had requested that their employees continue to work virtually, showing that the virtual teamwork - although still difficult to forecast its long-term implication - is here to stay (Boland, De Smet, Palter, & Sanghvi, 2020). Virtual teams

  9. Electronic Thesis/Dissertation

    The goal of this dissertation was to understand how this new context changes implicit leadership theories (ILTs) and their consequences. Specifically, I examined three research questions: (1) Does virtual work change the characteristics and attributes people associate with leaders—i.e., what are the implicit virtual leadership theories (IVLTs)?

  10. Inclusion from Afar: The Impact of Virtual Work on the Effects of

    Recently, there have been calls for a better understanding of how diversity and inclusion can be properly managed amidst the widespread digitalization of work. The purpose of this dissertation is to understand how virtual work environments help or hinder inclusive leaders to promote performance and reduce discrimination.

  11. PDF Johanna Saarinen Managing global virtual teams

    Virtual contexts limit and narrow the latitude of managers to do their job. Consequently, conflicting expectations create pressure on them and lead to feelings of inadequacy. In addition to an introductory essay, this thesis contains a series of four essays that elucidate different aspects of the work of global virtual team managers.

  12. Virtual Work Meetings During the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Good, Bad, and

    This study focuses on the good, the bad and the ugly of using videoconferencing for work-related meetings during the COVID-19 pandemic. Using a text mining process and qualitative content analysis of 549 comments posted to a LinkedIn online discussion board, we identified six key themes; three were tied to camera and microphone issues, two involved eating and meeting management issues, and one ...

  13. Working in Virtual Teams: A Systematic Literature Review and a

    The systematic review of literature proposed by Ramey and Rao [1] and enhanced by Pulsiri and. Thesenvitz [2] was used to examine the Scopus and W eb of Science databases to identify the theories ...

  14. (PDF) REMOTE WORK AND HYBRID WORK ORGANIZATIONS

    The need to transition to a virtual environment forced both companies and employees to try out different ways of working (e.g., managing virtual teams, ensuring infrastructure and access to work ...

  15. PDF Leadership in a virtual work environment

    1.3 Purpose. In order to fill the literature, gap in virtual leadership, the purpose of this thesis is to build valuable theory in virtual leadership. We are therefore aiming at explaining what challenges a virtual leader can face in contrast to a manager in a traditional co-located work environment.

  16. Remote Working and Work Effectiveness: A Leader Perspective

    The main aim of our study was to analyze remote work effectiveness perceived by managers (N = 141) referring to three crucial aspects, i.e., manager, team, and external cooperation. We assumed the perceived benefits, limitations, and online working frequency as predictors of remote work effectiveness.

  17. Challenges and barriers in virtual teams: a literature review

    Virtual teams (i.e., geographically distributed collaborations that rely on technology to communicate and cooperate) are central to maintaining our increasingly globalized social and economic infrastructure. "Global Virtual Teams" that include members from around the world are the most extreme example and are growing in prevalence (Scott and Wildman in Culture, communication, and conflict ...

  18. PDF Making Virtual Teams Work: Redesigning Virtual Collaboration ...

    The COVID-19 pandemic has shifted how many teams work, from face-to-face interactions to remote and hybrid forms of collaboration. Even at its best, though, virtual collaboration remains less e ective than face-to-face collaboration, leaving millions of workers with both the temporary and permanent challenges of virtual work.

  19. PDF Structural Optimization Using the Principle of Virtual Work and an

    motivation to update the program DISPAR to work with SAP2000 version 11 and other versions to follow. This thesis provides an overview of how the new version of DISPAR was programmed using VB.Net and OpenGL. This thesis starts off with an in depth discussion and literature review on the development of the principle of virtual work.

  20. The future of remote work: An analysis of 2,000 tasks, 800 jobs, and 9

    The future of remote work is likely to be hybrid in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, mostly for a highly educated, well paid minority of the workforce. ... citing the lack of spontaneity in virtual teamwork. As tech companies announced plans for permanent remote work options, the median price of a one-bedroom rental in San Francisco dropped ...

  21. Leadership Strategies to Create Success in Virtual Teams

    E-leadership: E-leadership, also known as virtual leadership, is a social influence. process mediated by advanced information technologies to produce changes in attitudes, feelings, thinking, behavior, or performance of project teams, including individuals, groups, and organizations (Avolio et al., 2001).

  22. 8.1: Virtual Work Method

    The virtual work method, also referred to as the method of virtual force or unit-load method, uses the law of conservation of energy to obtain the deflection and slope at a point in a structure. This method was developed in 1717 by John Bernoulli. To illustrate the principle of virtual work, consider the deformable body shown in Figure 8.1.

  23. 2021 Virtual Thesis Exhibition

    2021 Virtual Thesis Exhibition. MAY 27. AUG 1, 2021. Departments. Department of Architecture. Department of Landscape Architecture. Department of Urban Planning and Design. Thesis projects at the Harvard Graduate School Design are at once summits and foundations. Incorporating focused research and dialogue, they spark new perspectives—serving ...

  24. Dissertation or Thesis

    Improving pharyngitis care in school-based virtual care clinics: A quality improvement initiative ... This work has no parents. Items. Thumbnail Title Date Uploaded Visibility Actions; Bjuro_unc_0153D_22312.pdf: 2024-05-20: ... Deposit your senior honors thesis. Scholarly Journal, Newsletter or Book. Deposit a complete issue of a scholarly ...

  25. Technology is Reshaping the Work World

    Startups that enable remote work--and virtual connection--such as Roam, Arthur, and other virtual reality startups have secured hundreds of millions of dollars in venture capital. Other hybrid ...

  26. Virtual Workers Are Here to Take Your Job—and Give You a Promotion

    At the office, artificial intelligence is just getting started. Coming next: AI 'agents' that can find customers, send emails, and even make phone calls on your behalf. Your job will be to ...

  27. Microsoft's new Copilot AI agents act like virtual employees to

    Microsoft will soon allow businesses and developers to build AI-powered Copilots that can work like virtual employees and perform tasks automatically. Instead of Copilot sitting idle waiting for ...

  28. Best Smart Glasses of 2024

    It is home to a suite of apps including Microsoft Office for work, virtual desktops for PC or Mac, and a variety of indie games in the AR Lab. The Air's picture quality comes close to our top ...

  29. VMware Workstation Pro: Now Available Free for Personal Use

    Pro Apps are now Free for Personal Use and Licensed for Commercial Use. The most exciting part is that Fusion Pro and Workstation Pro will now have two license models. We now provide a Free Personal Use or a Paid Commercial Use subscription for our Pro apps. Users will decide based on their use case whether a commercial subscription is required.

  30. World leaders seek unity on AI at virtual summit co-hosted by ...

    World leaders seek unity on AI at virtual summit co-hosted by South Korea, U.K. The Seoul summit is a follow-up to last November's summit in the U.K., where participating countries agreed to work ...