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With high gas prices, crowded highways, and concern for air quality, what do business leaders need to do to reduce employee's obligation to drive to work? If you had the authority, what types of work options would you offer employees? If so, would the options apply to all employees? What are the impacts and challenges upon traditional management and organizational behavior principles? What are the pros and cons of the arrangement you have chosen?

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This brief discussion puts preference on the use of virtual office as an alternative work assignment to avoid highway traffic, air pollution, and other ills of working in an urban centers.

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Virtual office/online employees:

Companies must be cognizant of innovations in office work. With the advent of modern technology today, management must implement strategies that is based on work performance rather than physical presence of it workers. It can convert the working environment into a virtual office. Virtual ...

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