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Compare and contrast virtual teams and face-to-face teams by considering at least three advantages and three disadvantages of each. Discuss examples of each type of team from references and your personal experience.

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Compare and contrast by considering at least three advantages and three disadvantages of each. Discuss examples of each type of team from references and your personal experience.

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In today's dynamic and extremely competitive and globalized business world, businesses are increasing making use of virtual teams to enable their employees working in remote locations across the world to work seamlessly with each other. However, the transition from face to face to virtual teams has their its own merits and demerits. Let us discuss these merits and demerits of each in the material presented below.

The major advantages of virtual teams/disadvantages of face to face teams are:

1) Ability to work from any location across the world. Virtual teams allow talented employees to work from anywhere in the world, which is not possible in the case of face to face teams:

2) ...

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