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Go Green With The Virtual Office

Posted in Human Resources Articles, Total Reads: 2365 , Published on 01 September 2012

Traditional vs. Virtual Office

Ever tried to think about how to make your office building or office space more environmentally responsible? This is a very common trend and/or mission in today’s traditional work spaces: changing to more eco-friendly lighting, beefing up recycling practices, avoiding paper copies of documents, etc. While all of these are effective and important steps in the effort to green-up today’s offices, there is still one solution that offers a completely new dimension of greening to today’s workplaces – getting rid of them altogether. Image: FreeDigitalPhotos.net

Following are some aspects as to how a traditional office affects the environment.

For the vast majority of knowledge workers in the world each work day begins by `going to office'. The office is where one's `desk' is, where team meetings take place, where one meets colleagues, supervisors, and team members; and also where one catches up on organizational gossip. At the same time, spatially and often globally distributed teams are commonplace these days with variable degrees of distribution. For example, teams may be distributed over floors, buildings, cities or countries. It is becoming increasingly common for knowledge workers to conduct a majority of their interactions during the course of a work day electronically, using email, chat, phone or even video, without ever meeting face-to-face. In fact, a growing number of employees today work from home; some organizations have even gone to the extent of dispensing with the physical offices for thousands of such remote workers.

So, why do we still `go to office'? Are we losing something by working remotely? If so, how can innovative collaboration technology restore this missing 'something' for remote workers and distributed teams, and perhaps even go beyond it?

Virtual Office – What it is not?

Virtual Office – What it is?


Floor Plan of the office 3D Model of the Office 3D view of the Office Navigation by ‘walking’ Meetings in Virtual Office Conference Rooms

There’s a common saying that a good boss is known by the number of meetings he attends. A typical meeting in an office includes everyone going to the meeting room, choosing a seat to sit, presentations, interactive sessions between the audience and the presenter and maybe an Audio/Video in some cases. A Virtual Office solution will be incomplete without this feature. The salient features of Virtual Meetings are as under:

Speaker View Audience View Virtual Office offers almost all the functionalities as would a real world office. For the above mentioned merits more and more companies are adopting this solution. It clubs the Green IT and ‘something’ which someone misses when working from home/travelling. Virtual Office is a complete package and has a bright future.

This article has been authored by Varun Verma from NMIMS.

