Telework and Virtual Teams Gets Help from New Collaboration Technology

New collaboration technology allow virtual teams and teleworkers to do meeting remotely in a similar manner as same-site workers, thus eliminating the lack of team interactivity and isolation of remote workers.

Asia Pacific (PRWEB) June 25, 2004 -- The benefits from successful teleworking and global virtual teaming are unquestionable. The best people for the job could contribute from wherever they are. Years of expertise and experience could be tapped for the appropriate assignment.

Experts on virtual teams and teleworking concur on some of the leading issues facing globally dispersed teams or teleworkers who are not working in the same location. They lose the face-to-face interactions with their colleagues and often feel isolated.

Jon Katzenbach, best-selling author of Wisdom of Teams and The Discipline of Teams, pointed out that co-located teams could respond in real-time to body language, ideas, tone of voice, spontaneity of questions, informal testing of hypothesis and avoidance of assumptions.

Until now, groupware in the way of web conferencing and virtual workrooms with text messaging, are mainly task-oriented and doing little to team humanity -- sense of team, level of trust and degree of unit -- as referenced by virtual team expert and author Jaclyn Kostner.

New disciplines and processes, at the individual and team level, have been developed to compensate for the lack of same-site team interactivities and feeling of personal isolation for those remote workers.    

Why change the way people work? Why not create an experience similar to those enjoyed by the co-located team members?

The WiviTel service is a solution from this approach. It provides interactive multiparty video meetings at a very low price such that virtual 'face-to-face meetings could take place as needed and as frequently as several times a day. With the right quality, frequency and convenience to engage any group or any individual, your virtual team could regain those same-site community benefits.

think3 Inc, an international 20-year virtual corporation and leading supplier of product development solutions, used the technology for the global operations meeting, linking 365 people from 23 sites including Japan, USA, Italy, France, Germany, in 43 simultaneous meeting sessions with with voice, video, application-sharing and IM w/ presence" (virtual real-time availability online).

Joe Costello, think3 CEO and well-known Silicon Valley technology visionary said the meeting reflected the reality of the real world, with people calling in wherever they happened to be. In several countries, we had multiple people in a single room; in more remote locations, we had many employees working alone at their desks. Yet all the conversations were visually interactive -- each person asking a question and each person answering could see each other."

The WiviTel service is a portable internet-based desktop integrated video, voice and web conferencing service that is easy to setup and easy Click-To-Conference way of starting a conference. Service is optimised for conferencing calls between parties in USA, Asia and Europe. Details of the WiviTel service could be found at www.wivitel.com.    ;

About WiviTel
WiviTel is operated by Rize International Pte Ltd, a service provider, managed by a team of experienced telecom consultants from Asia and the US. They are dedicated to bringing relevant new technologies that are Simple to Use" and Cost Effective" that could help business to get things done in a Faster, Cheaper, Better" manner. More information on the WiviTel services could be found at www.wivitel.com or email sales@wivitel.com.

For further information, contact:
WiviTel Communications
SengHee Tan
+65 67695216
senghee@wivitel.com