Anonymous

Asia

VP International Operations

I have worked in MNCs, SMEs and in small globally dispersed teams over the past 15 years. I agree with the conclusion 100%.

Business is about people getting work done. And work gets done faster and with much higher quality when trust levels are high.

If your team is in the same office under one roof and you have to do a project, what do you do?

Meet and discuss. Don't we know that is the most effective way. We don't email and have conference call. Why?
Why not? We know it would be less effective, that's why not.

Then why is it any different with teleworking?

Quality virtual face-to-face meetings does the job. Why do they have videos for Board Meetings and not just conference calls? Because they know that video conference is much more effective.

But is quality video conferencing affordable to the teleworkers?

Indeed it is getting affordable. For companies that have teleworkers and virtual teams, this is the right time to start exploiting the effective tool of video conferencing now.

-- A Global Manager