How to make distance work work

You very likely work with someone off-site. Research from the Institute of Corporate Productivity stated in 2008 that 67% of the companies surveyed felt their reliance on virtual teams would grow in the next few years. For larger companies, this figure rose to 80% percent. In this article, the author will first list the kinds of general stressors distance work consists of and then give practical recommendations that their research suggests. They provide recommendations at three levels: to a member of a distributed team, to the manager of a distributed team, and to the organization that supports distributed team. They propose the categories of technologies that cover the needs of collaborations and then propose the factors that will help determine which of the many options fit the work at hand. In spite of all the advances and increasing awareness of the difficulties in distance work, distance still matters.