leading virtual teams in the workplace of the future

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The future of the workplace

Building a Virtual Reality

© transformed 2006

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‘Businesses that had teleworking employees reported significantlyhigher levels of business confidence and stronger levels of business performance”

Sensis Teleworking Survey 2009

• 40% of IBM's 355,000 employees are mobile workers. In real estate savings alone, IBM saves about $100 million a year.

• Teleworking costs Autoliv Australia $100K per year, but reduced staff turnover has saved the company about $3.6 million.

• Rank Xerox (UK) reported a 60% increase in productivity from teleworkers

"I found that as I've managed staff, the more flexibility and opportunities that I gave them to be good parents, the more commitment that they made to working with me, the less likely they were to leave because they wouldn't find the same sort of situation somewhere else”Michelle Obama

US First Lady

• 45% (50 million people) of the US workforce holds a job that is compatible with at least part-time telework.

• reduction in greenhouse gases 51 million tons

• national savings would total over $900 billion a year -> 46% of Persian Gulf oil imports

• energy saved annually > all renewable energy sources combined

Source: Telework Research Network (2011): The State of Telework in the US: How Individuals, Business, and Government Benefit

The biggest barrier to teleworking is:

management fear and mistrust

Why did we do

it?

Benefits and SavingsThe following savings have been made:• 171,600km pa from commuting• 3300 car spaces are freed up • $3500 pa in road maintenance• $75,000 pa - office fit-out expenses• Approximately $100,000 pa in staff costs

• Green data centre hosting and provision of applications via the ‘cloud’

• 66.5 tonnes CO2 elimination and 13 tones CO2 offset per year

Some tips

• Clear roles and responsibilities• Documented and streamlined

business processes• Communications protocols

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THINKING!