Remote Intelligence: An Analysis of its Nature, Pros and Cons, and Leadership Skills Needed to Manage it

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Table of Contents
Introduction....................................................................................................................................3
Rise of telecommuting and the increase in networked and separated workplaces......................3
Remote intelligence........................................................................................................................4
Why remote intelligence is not telecommuting..............................................................................6
Nature of remote intelligence and how it has been enabled.........................................................7
Threat to sustainability as well as boon in developed western countries.....................................8
Ethics of using remote intelligence................................................................................................8
Pros and Cons of using remote intelligence..................................................................................9
Pros of using remote intelligence............................................................................................................9
Cons of using remote intelligence...........................................................................................................9
Leadership styles and skills needed to manage remote intelligence...........................................10
References.....................................................................................................................................12

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Introduction
With the advent of technology and globalization, there has been huge changes in the
world and the organizational style of working. At the same time, while organizations get access
to newer markets and huge talent pool, customers also get larger number of choices and
increased their bargaining power. However, there are also challenges in the world that are acting
as a roadblock to globalization to some extent. For instance, there are many countries that have
started putting restrictions on immigrants to protect the jobs in their countries. Similarly, there
are political tensions and crime in some countries due to which people are not willing to travel
and as a result, these nations have lack of talented people in some of the professions in spite of
this globalized world. Remote intelligence is one such evolutionary concept that will solve this
problem where intelligence can be leveraged remotely with the help of robots. This concept is
still in nascent stages and lot of work needs to be done in this area however the speed with which
technology is changing suggests that it will only be a matter of time before remote intelligence
become way of working in organizations. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the remote
intelligence, what is it, how it can be leveraged, pros and cons of this technology and the
leadership skills needed to manage remote intelligence.
Rise of telecommuting and the increase in networked and separated
workplaces
With the advent of technology, digitalisations, smart devices, it becomes possible to work
from the comfort of your home or location remotely. Around 1/3rd of Americans works from
their home, café or any other place other than their office and this trend is constantly on the rise

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(Glass, & Noonan, 2016). This concept has its roots in 1990s when the leaders and organizations
started realizing that if the employees are given more freedom and flexibility to work, they will
be better able to manage their personnel and professional obligations (Yao, Tan, & Ilies, 2017).
Organizations realised that it does not matter for them whether the employees are coming to
office or not as long as their work is not impacted and they remain productive. There are large
number of jobs that can be performed using internet and as the internet begun to penetrate, idea
of telecommuting also started becoming popular. There were organisations like Dell that have
realized how the telecommuting is able to help the company in saving millions (Deng,
Mokhtarian, & Circella, 2015). For instance, if the employees work remotely, there will be less
electricity, less water and beverages consumed that would make it great for the organizations.
However, there were not many benefits of telecommuting because gradually the organizations
realized that communications skills increases between people and also there is lack of network
and close relationships that is necessary to get some real complex work done and also most of
the great ideas have evolved from informal discussion around coffee and so (Matos, & Galinsky,
2015). As a result, there is increase in separate workplaces as people work from different
workplaces.
Remote intelligence
Remote intelligence is already used in the field of healthcare industry and some hospitals
however as this concept is still in nascent stages and has limitations that needs to be fixed, it is
not adopted in a mainstream manner. However, as per the research papers, this idea can be much
more disruptive than artificial intelligence. In artificial intelligence, there is focus on self-
learning. Robots learns gradually and store it in their memory and improve their responses over a