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Making Virtualization Collaboration Work

November 19, 2018 | MIT Sloan Management Review | Managing Technology

Letting employees work from home or at drop-in work centers can be beneficial to both employees and companies. But managing communication can be a challenge from both directions. This collection of articles from MIT Sloan Management Review looks at how organizations are navigating the challenges of a dispersed workforce.

Articles included in this collection:

The Four Ways to Manage Digital Talent and Why Two of Them Don’t Work
By Kristine Dery and Ina Sebastian

Four Habits of Highly Effective Virtual Teams
By Leslie Brokaw

Managing the Human Cloud
By Evgeny Kaganer, Erran Carmel, Rudy Hirschheim and Timothy Olsen

Why Showing Your Face at Work Matters
By Kimberly Elsbach and Daniel Cable

Five Ways to Improve Communication in Virtual Teams
By N. Sharon Hill and Kathryn M. Bartol

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