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It is predicted that by the year 2010 up to half of the British workforce could be working for some form of virtual organization or working at least part of the week at home.
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It is predicted that by the year 2010 up to half of the British workforce could be working for some form of virtual organization or working at least part of the week at home. Clearly this trend will have enormous implications for managers and for design of organizations and the ways in which they will try to achieve their objectives. Communication in the information age no longer requires employees to be in physical contact with each other, their customers or even the companies that employ them. Research by Forster (2001) sees 'Ericsson' already confidently using the virtual route, they have half of there workforce working away from there office. The forecast for the USA is that 60% of professionals will be virtually working by 2010. Teams Organisational Design Warner (2001) looked at virtual organisations and concluded that virtual organisations should be seen as a set of strategic options, in which managers should consider...
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