1. The Online Workplace: Virtuality Group A

2. Matt PhilipMahendraAlan PaulMichaelEd

3. Contents 1.TeleWorking 2. Virtual Desktop Infrastructure 3. Virtual Teams 4. The Future

4. Teleworking “Employment at locations far from offices while communicating with the workplace by phone or internet or fax”

5. Advantages Spend more time with family Save traveling time and costs Environmental benefits Collaboration with worldwide web Opportunities for disabled Balance

6. Disadvantages Remote working is not suitable for all types of jobs Supplying workers with expensive technologies Work social life Career development problems

7. Teleworking Activities

8. Teleworking Infrastructure

9. A service by which users can access their desktop from any part of the world on remote servers which are accessed over a network Virtual Desktop Infastructure

10. Advantages Greater productivity Happy workforce Reduced costs Reduced energy bills Flexibility No costly downtime Reduced IT management tasks

11. Disadvantages Not all VDI delivers significant cost saving Security threats Location of data center can be a security issue Poor performance if solution not well designed as per needs Support skills can be expensive and rare

12. Top 5 market players making VDI VMware view Hewlett-Packard IBM Citrix Wyse

13. Motivations for VDI (Microsoft, p.9)

14. Virtual Teams What is a Virtual Team? Collection of people  Anywhere in the world  Different Organizations  Working at Different times Using electronic tools to communicate

15. Why Virtual Teams? Business Efficiency Worker Benefits 24/7 Work force

16. Disadvantages Communication issues Social Issues (RW3 2010, p.10)

17. Type of Teams Specific tasks Semi-permanent –Managers –Executives Loose teams –Self formed

18. Supporting Infrastructure Basic: Email Phone calls / texts Social networking Corporate intranets Advanced: Video conferencing Knowledge –sharing services Virtual meetings Virtual worlds

19. Concerns How do I manage people I’ve never met? Managers need to: –Prevent Isolation –Make Clear Goals –Encourage sharing

20. The Future of Virtual Workspaces Virtual Workspaces at present? Skype Calls still at a disadvantage to face to face

21. Oculus Rift Virtual reality gaming technology Recently bought by Facebook “After games, we're going to make Oculus a platform for many other experiences…studying in a classroom of students and teachers all over the world or consulting with a doctor face-to-face — just by putting on goggles in your home…This is really a new communication platform.” - Mark Zuckerberg

22. Improving human Interaction Key for producing coherent, well linked projects Facebook has made a step in the right direction –Improving communication and experience sharing

23. Conclusion As you can see there are many technologies that supports the idea of a virtual workspace Skype Phone Fax Email VDI Oculus Rift Social networking Corporate Intranet GitHub

24. Business Pros and Cons

25. Employee Pros and Cons

26. Is virtual workplace a good idea? Different situation requires different form of virtual workspace Leadership plays a major role in preventing problems such as lack of trust and motivation But with good management skills, virtual workplace can bring benefits to the company more than if they do not implement it

27. References RW-3 (2010)The Challenges of Working in Virtual Teams. p10 Accessed 1 st may 2014. Available at http://rw-3.com/VTSReportv7.pdfhttp://rw-3.com/VTSReportv7.pdf Microsoft. VDI TCO Analysis for Office Worker Environments. p9 Accessed 1 st may 2014. Available at http://download.microsoft.com/download/7/9/A/79AAA903-25B4-4D76- 8580- BC47D5700433/Microsoft%20VDI%20TCO%20whitepaper%20customer%2 0ready%20v1%202.pdf http://download.microsoft.com/download/7/9/A/79AAA903-25B4-4D76- 8580- BC47D5700433/Microsoft%20VDI%20TCO%20whitepaper%20customer%2 0ready%20v1%202.pdf Zuckerberg, Mark (2014) Business Insider. Accessed 1 st May 2014. Available at http://www.businessinsider.com/zuckerberg-why-facebook- bought-oculus-2014-3