Remote Intelligence and Its Impact on Modern Organizations

This assignment sheds light on the different concepts associated with remote intelligence and its significance in modern organizations. It covers the emergence of telecommuting, nature of remote intelligence, threats to the workforce of Western countries, ethics of using remote intelligence, managing remote workforce, and leadership skills required for sustainably managing remote intelligence.

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Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................2
The emergence of telecommunication as well as the rise of networked and separated workplace.3
Nature of remote intelligence and the process of enabling it..........................................................5
Threats of remote intelligence to workforce of the Western countries...........................................5
Ethics of using remote intelligence..................................................................................................7
Managing Remote Workforce.........................................................................................................8
Leadership style and skills required for sustainably managing remote intelligence.......................9
Conclusion.....................................................................................................................................10
Reference List................................................................................................................................11

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Introduction
Presently the emergence of globalization and tremendous economic developments, the
concept of international trade is characterized as the transfer of the goods and services where it is
cheaper in comparison to the other country. Nowadays a huge difference can be traced out
between the salaries or wages among the international workers. Although, it seems to be difficult
to determine demark the simultaneous differences in the wages paid to the workers
internationally. The resistance arising out of the political dimension substantiates the fact that the
majority of the workers working at a lower wage are stuck at their home (Collier, 2015).
However, if there was a possibility which could have enabled these low wage workers to sell
their services across the borders there would have been a completely different scenario. In
relation to this situation the researchers have argued that with the rapid evolution of the
computing and communication technologies it would be beneficial for the low wage workers to
work remotely across the border. Telerobotics is characterized as a technological innovation
which had aided to overcome the need of physical presence in a wider range of jobs (Liu, 2018).
These are simply robots which can be operated and controlled not only by artificial intelligence
but alsi through remote intelligence which signifies a human being operating the robot from
faraway. The distinctive feature of remote intelligence is that it possesses the judgmental power
and it is quite flexible which provides it with a more disruptive edge in comparison to the
artificial intelligence in the context of both the poor as well as rich nations specifically in the
short run (van Rossumet al., 2017). The assignment will shed light over the different concepts
associated with remote intelligence and its significance in the different business organizations. In
the first and foremost section of the report the event of the evolution of telecommuting will be
discussed and the increasing trend in the separated and integrated workplace needs will be

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enlightened. In the rest of the parts it will cover the role of remote intelligence in the modern
organizations as well as the benefits and drawbacks of the same. The paper will also elaborate on
how the emergence of remote intelligence can risk the jobs of a huge number of workers.
The emergence of telecommunication as well as the rise of networked and separated
workplace
It is a matter of fact that with the passage of time there is a distinct paradigm shift to the
telework environment from the normal workplace environment. The rapid developments in the
telecommunication technologies as well as the internet coupled with the ever increasing need for
information exchange have acted as a major driving force for the businesses to develop a
framework which allows the workers to work remotely from a different working environment
which is permitted by the firm itself. On the other hand, Kraitsmanet al ., (2016), have
alternatively defined telecommuting as a process under which the employees associated with an
organization are permitted to work remotely away from the office as per their convenience for
one or more days in a week through using a computer or a device that possesses the facilities of
telecommunication. Since the start of 1990s it has been observed that there was a drastic rise in
the use of telecommuting practices. The researchers have identified the root cause behind this as
the rising pressure on the companies for increasing the overall productivity at the lowest possible
operational costs.
Telecommuting is sometimes considered as the alternative which can be used against the
routine work arrangements where the workers discharge their duties from a specific workplace.
However, the routine arrangements of the workplace have also undergone significant changes in
the past few years as well. Therefore it can be stated that the firms are now facing rigorous
pressure for introducing creative and innovative designs for the corporate workplace which in

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turn would enable the employees to access the relevant information in an easier way (Leeet al.,
2014). The services related to voice and internet in the home of the employees have also made
telecommuting an inevitable part of the workplace practices. In this context it can be stated that
there are empirical evidences obtained from the studies pertaining to the telecommuting practices
which signify that the number of telecommuting practicing firms have increased to 50% in the
year 2007 from 25% during 2003 (Casas, 2017). A majority of the telecommunication giants
such as Ericson, Yahoo, Telia and vattenfall have incorporate significant efforts in reducing the
workspace and has also implemented the concept of flexible workplace. It is quite likely that the
telecommuting practices will grow significantly in terms of the intensity provided that the
modern day workers are now becoming more concerned about their own security. In such a
scenario the rise in the fuel prices may increase the cost of commuting to the employee, however,
from the perspective of the employer it would be beneficial and cost effective to reduce the
workplace.
There exists a substantial literature base which aims at establishing a relationship
between the rise in the level of productivity and the implementation of telecommuting. The
telecommuting practices have been depicting a substantial growth since the past two decades in
the developed nations, however, the business entities in Africa and West Africa still need to
exploit the widespread opportunities of remote working (Zhonget al., 2017). The sudden rise in
the telecommuting practices is mainly because of the fact that it effectively allows the employers
to reduce the workplace and at the same time implements workplace flexibility. In the context of
the employees it empowers the employees and provides them with several other facilities as well.
Hence it can be stated that the telecommuting in association with the more separated and
networked workplace environment has equipped the business entities to increase their

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productivity substantially at a minimum operational cost. This signifies the fact that in near
future more and more business organizations will opt for adapting the remote working
techniques.
Nature of remote intelligence and the process of enabling it
The concept of remote work has always been considered as a negligible and smaller part
in the employment landscape since ages. However, the rise of internet technologies the
opportunities of remote work are now flourishing and certain companies are now communicating
directly with the eligible people for working a specific project. A number of businesses are
relying on providing a general workplace while some of them are stressing over specified
designs. The rise of remote intelligence have now become a great area of interest to the
researchers as it is growing fast and enabling not only the freelancers but also the employers to
work remotely as well (Ataseveret al., 2016). Hence the technology has provided the employers
as well as the employees with a more flexible work environment. Due to this the workers are
now demanding fir a more flexible workplace which in turn is giving rise to remote working as
through this the organizations are also being able to accrue the best possible person at the least
possible organizational cost.
Threats related to remote intelligence to workforce of the Western Countries:
In United States, the male workforce, aged between 18 and 54 years, experienced a major
decline in the workforce participation rate over a long period, that is, between 1990 and 2014.
This phenomenon can be considered as one of the largest decline among rest of OECD countries
related to the workforce participation rate. It was majorly due to outsourcing of the jobs related
to manufacturing along with the tremendous expansions in the production techniques that proved
the fact that employment in these sectors are not so cost effective (Heet al., 2017). At present,

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high skilled workers, who are also known as the white-collar employees, have experienced this
stress as well. The improving technological efficiency has increased the chances of expelling
higher skilled workers from the production process. Thus, it is important to analyze the changing
pattern of working environment, as those skilled workers are substituted with robots in most of
the profit earning jobs within the society.
On the other side, the activity of removing male blue-collar workers had influenced the
society from various aspects. According to a present study, based on using of opioid, the
American job market has revealed the fact that decreasing job rate, the mental health of the
employees and drug abuse are intricately related (Bansal et al. 2017). Other studies, related to
this phenomenon, have revealed the fact that one out of five men, who is not a part of the total
workforce, has used opioid pain medication each day. Hence, using excessive consumption of
drugs has led the number of deaths to increase further by more than 100 for each day.
The outsourcing and technological progress have never considered as the warning for the
white-collar workers in previous years. However, within the service sector, most of the routine
jobs have experienced risks due to increase of remote intelligence (Senthilnath et al. 2015). The
technological improvements that in turn have induced the use of remote intelligence, have
influenced job in the financial sector, where 5500 people have been employed as traders in the
New York Stock Exchange in 2000 though after this year, the number of employment has
decreased to less than 4500.
At this point of time, most of the high skilled jobs have started to conduct their business
activity with the help of machines in the genre of professional services. For automated auditing
technology at PwC, the enhancing investment has started to increase at a faster rate. Before this,
workers have had trouble to enter within the highly skilled job market due to two chief barriers,

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which are location and language. However, this consequence has started to change after the
development of telepresence and the telerobotic technologies (Sharaf El Dinet al., 2017).
According to an economist, it can be said that increase of remote intelligence have helped
various companies to hire highly skilled workers in the developing countries from all over the
world. This is because the living cost in those developing countries is comparatively low due to
the presence of telepresence technologies. This process can be said as an increasing part of the
globalization process and has eradicated the simultaneity, which can further protect the high
skilled employees that have come from the western countries. Those tele-migrant employees can
control machines from other countries for working on business development and business
administration (Ignatovet al., 2016).
In addition to this, workers of western countries have experienced threats due to
increasing use of telerobotics. The chief reason behind this threat is that robots have become
comparatively less expensive and more productive, which indicates that the high skilled jobs can
be outsourced. Telesurgery, developed originally by NASA, has collaborated with the army of
U.S.A though it was not intended to use based on routine (Kaliappanet al., 2017). Telesurgery
has allowed the practitioner to control a person from a distance of 400 k.m and this in turn has
helped to develop various aspects that may threaten the jobs of workers from the western
countries. Thus, from this phenomenon, it can be said that Western region has become
comparatively more dependent on the technological system.
Principles of using remote intelligence:
The principle issues regarding remote intelligence are related with certain levels, which
are described as below.

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 The algorithmic or technological integration regarding ethical reasoning can be identified
as a part of the chief behavior related to system of remote intelligence.
 The engineering procedures along with regulatory, which in turn have supported the
analysis an evaluation of the remote intelligence system, have integrated or replaced the
traditional social structure.
 The standardization along with codes of conduct and the certification processes that have
ensured the reliability of users and researchers regarding their responsibility to conduct
design, have constructed and controlled this system of remote intelligence.
 In addition to this, there are some other ethical frameworks that can be followed with the
help of practitioners if remote intelligence. (Singlaet al., 2015).
Remote Workforce management:
At present, most of the people have widely accepted the fact that they have wanted to
work from their home so that they cannot communicate or spend time with those people with
whom they do not want to make contact. However, the managers have needed to develop some
competencies and skills additionally to manage this remote workforce. Hence, managers can
experience noticeable challenge to work in those areas. The chief challenge is that if those
managers have remained unable to manage workforce, it can further generate lack of work-life
balance and this turn can leave the employees to experience that they have been alienated
towards their work. Hence, in this context, it can be mentioned that the prior responsibility for a
manager related to remote team is to understand about the emotional well-beings of every team
member and guide them to achieve success in life (Gan et al. 2015). Within the traditional role of
a manager, they are not considered where face-to-face interact may occur at a short period of

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notice. Hence, at this situation, manager needs to look after carefully the basic needs of his or her
each team members.
To manage the remote team, communication is one of the important factors. Chats and
text messages are two important media of communication though in this context, these have
remained difficult to use for conveying everyone. For instance, the most efficient and skilled
employee can be misunderstood in this situation to communicate through this process of
instantaneous communication. Thus from this context, it can be said that the manager acquires
his fingertips (Taggart et al. 2014). Communications are required to be designed so that the
workers can experience that they have possessed importance for the organization and their
opinion have enough importance on the business management.
On the contrary, some tools are considered as an integral part of the remote
communication while video chat has played an important role among those communications. At
the time of direct communication, a report may not help a manger to understand team members
about any project and in this situation; a video call can solve this issue within a second.
Style of leadership and skills that are needed to sustain managing remote intelligence:
Certain leadership skills or traits can help the leaders to manage the workforce of remote
intelligence. Those skills or traits are discussed as follows:
Adaptive nature and flexibility within the working environment are two very important
issues that are required to consider further. For instance, a leader of remote area may require to
work for longer hours or may require to attend a meeting during different time zones (Czejdo and
Baszun, 2016). Thus, those people with complete dedication and endless energy toward their
performance may become a successful remote leader.

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To become the best remote managers, they are required to be extra positive, extra pro
culture along with extra pro brand. It is required that the successful evangelism has remained
sincere when it is required to be transmitted over miles. If the connection that is connected with
the company cannot intricate, the leader or manager would be required to share their successful
stories of the company that may in turn can strengthen the connection between the people, who
work for it with company (Yang et al. 2017).
In addition to this, approachability is other important issue that signifies that the leader or
manager need to be friendly and well-behaved so that the followers can further experience
comfort to bring news to them without considering the fact that whether the news is bad or good.
The leaders of remote areas are required to be constructive and for these four types of
building blocks can be seen. Firstly, the procedure is required to be very meaningful that it can
make a true learning curve. Secondly, the workers are required to provide a specific overview
regarding the performances that can be commended so that they can repeat the performance
easily. Thirdly, workers are required to be caught in the act and lastly, the positive message is
required to be clouded within criticism (Piaget and Inhelder, 2015).
Conclusion
At the conclusion, it can be said that the assignment has tried to focus on the various
aspects related to the remote intelligence and the way it has been used in the workplace. The
paper primarily has analyzed about the telecommunication that is considered as the primitive
stage of remote intelligence at present days. It can be observed that increasing pressure of the
companies for raising productivity and reducing the operational cost have, in turn, intensified
telecommunication. Moreover, the conceptual framework regarding remote intelligence has been

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formed. The specific traits or skills that are needed by the managers to sustain management of
remote intelligence have been explained effectively as well.

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