When Your Office is On the ‘Net
Friday
Jun 20, 2008
A lot of people today are working in a telecommute setup. Or they run their offices from their own homes. It’s sometimes called a virtual office environment, and in these cases it pays to be smart with the tools you use. For instance, here are some questions to ask yourself, and some issues to address:
- How do you communicate with your colleagues when you rarely (or never) see face to face?
- How do you manage tasks, when you can’t physically be with your colleagues?
- How do you transfer resources (money, equipment, etc.)?
- How do you share documents and other information?
- How do you secure your files, information, and other such important material?
- How do you deal with regulatory issues (taxes, business registration, employment matters) when you and your colleagues are mostly in different parts of the world?
It gets more complicated, and I think people are still trying to work these out, since the freedom from geographical boundaries that the Internet has brought about is a fairly new thing.
