Beginners
How To Guide
eWork Guide
Baseline
of Current Activity
Assessing
existing eWorking helps you to identify possible champions
for the activity and to select the functions most
likely to be successfully eWorked. Try to identify:
It is also useful to monitor conventional (onsite)
activity to establish a standard against which eWorking
can be compared later.
The
Company Culture
Successful
eWork means combining suitable tasks, positive attitudes
among staff and managers, familiarity with IT and
a favourable organisational ethos. Until now
eWork has been concentrated in high-technology companies
where the ethos tends to be innovative, flexible and
hard working, with a relatively flat management structure,
accompanied often by family-friendly policies to encourage
staff recruitment and retention.
More
traditional, hierarchical company cultures tend to
equate physical presence with work, and see the empowerment
implicit in eWorking as an unacceptable loss of control
and status. They face a more daunting task in
addressing eWork, as do those companies where regular
onsite meetings form a key part of the corporate culture.
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