Advantages and Issues of Creating a Virtual Team within XYZ Company

Running head: MANAGEMENT COMMUNICATION
Management Communication
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1MANAGEMENT COMMUNICATION
Persuasive memo
To: Mr X, the Marketing Director of XYZ Company
From: Mr Y, employee of XYZ Company
Date: 10/11/2018
Subject: Creation of a virtual team within the XYZ Company
As being stated by the Sydney headquarters, XYZ Company is planning to develop a
virtual team with team members located in Sydney, Beijing, New York and Mumbai.
Considering the fact that the company is establishing a virtual team for the first time, it can be
understood that the employees of XYZ organization is not accustomed to work in the virtual
team. Hence, several concerns are likely to be arrived from the employee’s side. In this memo,
the advantages that can be enjoyed by both the employees and the organization by implementing
a virtual team have been discussed. Along with that, the issues associate with the asynchronous
communication and effective ways to deal with the issues will also be discussed in the memo.
Considering the fact that the company is trying to enhance its performance and
productivity by creating a new marketing team, virtual team can be considered to be the best
option to meet the objectives. The biggest advantage of virtual team includes cost saving by
eradicating the huge expanses on real estate, gas, water and electricity expanses as well as
expanses caused due to travelling. This will also be beneficial for the employees of XYZ
Company since virtual team will provide them with the opportunity to work from the comfort of
home. Secondly, virtual team will allows XYZ Company to create a highly efficient team that
will be comprised of the mostly skilled employees located at different branches of the