Voice chats are good for home workers, only with privacy
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As more and more people can work from their own house, corporations have to adapt their work methods to include IM and videoconferencing. But about employees’ participation, it’s another tricky problem.
Explained P.K. Kannan, director of the Center for Excellence in Service at the University of Maryland, to Red Herring: “It’s not the formal meetings they [telecommuters] miss. It’s the informal chats with their coworkers at the water cooler or at lunch.”
So spare some private rooms for your home workers, but not too private, the MySpace generation doesn’t share the same value as their elders. “There are technologies where you can have private conversations not hosted by the company, but younger workers place a much lower premium on that kind of privacy. Maybe their need for privacy will grow as they get older, but they are used to sharing their thoughts on computers.”
As we don’t know much about this, we just open the talk. Have you achieved to chit-chat with coworkers? Maybe you have some good methods to share?
Jul 14, 2006 | By Nuno
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