Report on Telecommuting and Remote Intelligence in Organizations

This report examines the rise of telecommuting and remote intelligence in organizational behavior, highlighting the differences between the two concepts and their impact on modern organizations. It discusses the benefits of telecommuting, such as increased productivity and reduced costs, and delves into the nature of remote intelligence, its applications, and its potential threats to the workforce, particularly in Western countries. The report also addresses the ethical considerations of remote intelligence and outlines the leadership skills necessary for managing remote teams. The conclusion summarizes the key findings and emphasizes the growing importance of remote work in today's business environment.

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Contents
Introduction...........................................................................................................................................2
Body......................................................................................................................................................3
Telecommuting..................................................................................................................................3
Remote intelligence...........................................................................................................................4
Use of Remote intelligence................................................................................................................5
Nature of Remote intelligence...........................................................................................................6
Threat to workforce...........................................................................................................................7
Ethics of Remote Intelligence...........................................................................................................8
Pros and Cons of Remote Intelligence...............................................................................................9
Leadership skills for Remote intelligence..........................................................................................9
Conclusion...........................................................................................................................................10
References...........................................................................................................................................11
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Introduction
With the increase in the advancements in technology, telecommuting concept has
revolunarized the way of working in the organizations since 1970. Telecommuting has grown
at such a pace just to achieve an unprecedented level today. This concept has dwelled the
working scenario in the past few years. It is associated with other terms as well that are rising
continuously in the organizations such as telework, work from home, e-work and remote
work. But, there is an undenying fact telecommuting and remote work have slight difference,
which accordingly changes their impact and working scenario of the organization (Westfall,
2004). Although both are practiced extensively in the organizations in today’s world, but they
are different from each other. This paper highlights the rise of telecommuting and explains
the remote intelligence work to have a better understanding of the management functions and
the core skills required to manage the people belonging to different geographical locations in
the business organizations today (Shekarchi, et al., 2015).
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Body
Telecommuting
Telecommuting is the scenario where the employees work from a different location other
than the ordinary work environment, which is supported by the technological setup. It is the
work arrangement that expands the location and time agenda for working. It is based on three
main principles such as delocalization of work, bond with the organization and the utilization
of technology. Telecommuting is growing since 1970 and is still expected to grow in a wide
scope. With an increase in the technology and the spread of broadband services,
telecommuting is the fastest growing mode that helps in increasing the flexibility of work.
According to the data, there has been an 19% increase in the use of telecommuting in the
United States of America and more than 29% increase in the United Kingdom. 75% of the
companies are satisfying with the implementation of the telecommuting system in the
organization (Lash, 2005). Telecommuting is such a concept that provides ample of benefits
to the organizations and the employees. It has been found that telecommuting has
successfully helped the organizations in increasing their level of productivity. Also, the work
of telecommuters is found to be more efficient and accurate in comparison to the employees
working in the offices. Organizations are constantly relying on this concept of doing work
due to its increased amount of benefits that are reaped by the organizations and by the
employees. From reduced costs of performing tasks to reducing the traffic on the highway, it
is considered as the best fit for the organizations these days. According to the magazine
survey, 52% of the employees are found to spend more time on work than the employees
working in the office, this then increases the level of efficiency and productivity in the
organization. Telecommuting is expected to grow the level of jobs by four folds in the
coming years (Shockley, 2014). Due to its potential benefits, it is also expected that
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telecommuting has considerably increased the level and quality of life of the employees. With
the increase in this concept of working from home, which enables the organizations to
expand geographically, the concept of remote working has also created its own name and
space. Remote working is somewhat different than the telecommuting concept as
telecommuting is the working from remote working areas during the working hours either
from home or workplace, whereas remote working is the work from home that is outside the
geographical location. This has increased the worry of the organizations to manage the
employees who are expanded over vast geographic areas. Extensive rise in the telecommuting
and its benefits has led to an increase in the concept of remote working within the business
world. According to the firm Gartner, since 2005, there is an increase of more than 23% of
the workforce that have started to work from home atleast one day per month (Pinsonneault,
et al., 1999).
Remote intelligence
Due to considerable increase in technology, there is a significant increase in the
telecommuting concept and its usage has also increased. With this, the organizations are now
depending on the concept of remote working, which is likely to be present in almost every
business field such as healthcare, hospitality, pharmacy, automobile and so on. More and
more organizations are turning to the use of remote intelligence in order to reduce the costs,
increasing the top and managed employees, retain best employees, increase productivity and
for managing non-work demands. It is the remote intelligence that has enabled the doctors to
perform the surgery from 400 kilometres away through robots. The performance of the work
activities from being away from the location of the work has excited the business
organizations and alomots every field of industry to rely extensively on the use of remote
intelligence (Bell, 2012). Almost 69% of the employees feel that working through
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telecommuting and remote working has helped in increasing the productivity levels of the
organization and has boosted the employees to work efficiently. People living in the rural and
remote areas are depending on the use of remote intelligence just to seek out the best.
Organizations have been able to deploy and expand their business networks only due to the
invent of remote intelligence. The use of skilled workers and employees have increased just
due to the remote working as it has helped the organizations to connect with the talented
people that were far away from the location of the job or work. Remote intelligence is
considered as the best way to overcome the challenge of maintaining and retaining the human
capital with an increase in the level of efficiency and productivity. Remote workers feel that
working through telecommuting is the best way and aspect as it creates a positive impact on
the job and as well as on the worker. According to the Society of Human Resource
Management, there will be a considerable increase in the remote workers in the coming next
five years (Felstead & Henseke, 2017).
Use of Remote intelligence
Many large companies are adopting the use of remote strategies, in order to allow their
employees to work from anywhere. Frequent improvements in technology have helped the
companies in adopting such strategies more often. Number of growth of use of remote
intelligence by the firms is expected to grow at a rapid rate by 2020. Companies are shifting
to this form of working due to its varied benefits that have helped the organizations in various
ways. Instead of telecommuting, companies are relying on remote intelligence due to its more
advancements and benefits that can be reaped by the organizations. It proves out to be more
beneficial for the employees as well. The basic reason for companies to use remote
intelligence instead of telecommuting is to recruit more and more of talented people from
across the globe, which is only possible through remote intelligence. For promoting better
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and healthier employees, companies are constantly driving to achieve remote strategies in
comparison to telecommuting (Bibby & Rozier , 2017). As remote intelligence offers the
flexibility in the range of work, thereby, it promotes happier employees, which encourages
the organization to make use of remote strategies and not necessarily the telecommuting base.
Remote intelligence is also preferred due to its ability to create long term business growth
and performance. many companies like Auttomatic, Toptal and Mozilla have shifted to the
use of this technology. According to the Toptal’s website, it has been found that the
productivity of the employee is known by what they do, not by their presence on the chair.
This rather builds the epitome of using remote intelligence in a more varied and extensive
form. from telecommuting, the organizations are now shifting to remote intelligence due to
such reasons that make them better (Gasca, 2016).
Nature of Remote intelligence
Remote intelligence is the practice of working from anywhere across the globe. It helps the
companies in reaching a vast geographical base and this turns leads to a better and sound
work environment. Remote working was a small segment in the history of work
employemnet, but it has spurred its growth only because of the use of internet across the
globe. Companies have been able to respond to such technology and work productives only
because of the invent of technology. The remote working is exceptionally the work for the
employees, not for the freelancers. Remote intelligence has changed the outlook of
performing the business activities where the working environment has changed. It is the team
that works together from any location (Murphy, 2016). The time has gone where the work or
business was to work from a single place. Today, the companies are striving hard to work and
go remote as it provides significant benefits to the companies. The remote intelligence is the
flex job that provides the employees with the flexibility of working schedule and place. It is
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another professional level of working, which is above the telecommuting work. Remote
intelligence can be enabled by incorporating the robots and efficient use of internet in order
to go remote. The set upp of technology and internet is a must for any company that aims at
going remote. Enabling remote intelligence is the best and most suitable outlook in today’s
world, which can be enhanced and significant benefits can be achieved through this (Arruda,
2017).
Threat to workforce
Significant improvements in the technology sector has possibily increased the threat to the
western countries. The threat to the routine jobs and the workplace have been increased. High
skilled jobs are lost to the use of machines in the professional services only because of the
use of the remote intelligence at the workplace. Companies are extensively relying on the use
of artificial intelligence, remote intelligence, teleworking, which has created a threat to the
workers working at the job location. With increase in the technological advancements, the
hiring of robots to perform the tasks from abroad has increased, which significantly causes a
threat to the western workers (Collins, et al., 2016). With increase in the use of remote
intelligence, employees working in the western countries are facing threats due to the use of
robots,which perform their tasks more effectively and efficiently. Automation and remote
intelligence is calling off the jobs of the people actually working in the western countries.
Making use of remote intelligence creates a negative impact on the workplace, as it might
take place of the wokers in the near future. Technology is substituting the labor work, which
have radically impact on the incomes of the people. Technology and going remote destroys
the employees and their jobs, by creating new and better ones. Going remote poses a serious
threat on the western workers by destroying their confidence and incomes that make it hard
for them to live in the future. The productivity of the employees, confidence, incomes,
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happiness and morale of the western workers or the current workforce is adversely affected
by the use of the remote intelligence at the workplace. It is true to the fact that workforce
faces enormous challenges or threat due to the invent of remote intelligence in the working
environment (West, 2015).
Ethics of Remote Intelligence
Every profession in the world is changing due to the invent of technology. The remote
intelligence has certain ethics and considerations while making its use in the work
environment. Every organization must emohasize on the use of the remote intelligence by
considering its ethics and practices in order to avoid any kind of issues and problems. The
contract must be properly reviewed and analyzed before inculcating the use of the remote
working in the organization. Mostly every company have strived the use of remote working,
thereby, it becomes important for the organizations to understand the ethics of using the
same. Significant research must be done in this sector, before deploying the technology in
order to understand its set up and pros and cons that might affect the company as well as the
employees (Tugend, 2014). The compliance and threat predictions must be done aptly to
reduce the chances of any kind of issues that might arise out of the use of remote working.
The technology parameters must be understood and stated before deploying this. The
employees working from the remote locations must be stated with the compliance and
working ethics of the organization so as to avoid the chances of fradualent and misconduct.
Efficient and particular ethics must be followd by the organizations before making use of the
remote intelligence at the working place. It should be devised in such a form that it also
protects the current workforce of the organization (Boddington, 2018).
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Pros and Cons of Remote Intelligence
Every organization has its core business that stands it importance. The primary activity that
the organization focuses on is its core business. Comapnies are build or present only on the
basis of the core business that they possess. The core business is open to certain critical
elements such as marketing, business planning, building team, financial management,
efficient customer service, continuous improvement, sales and estimation and others. The
companies have different elements for emphasizing their core business (Head, 2017). It is
very important for the organizations to focus on improving the levels of their elements of
core business. Nowadays, due to the invent of remote intelligence the elements of core
business have become easy. Possible benefits of remote intelliegence are reducing the costs
of travelling, setting environment for workplace. The remote workers are provided with such
salaries that they happy to spend with, which considerably reduces the cost amount for an
organization. Increase in productivity is another benefit which helps in achieving the core
busisness targets. Also, the organization is benefitted by less absentism from the employees
as they considerably enjoy working from the desired location. With possible advantages, its
causes disadvantages to the business like less connection with the colleagues as remote
working leads to working remotely, which includes less interaction with others. Worklife
balance is the biggest challenge in the operation of remote intelligence, which affects the core
of the business. Also, working from remote areas leads to more of distractions as it reduces
the focus of the employees on the work (Ware & Grantham, 2010).
Leadership skills for Remote intelligence
Although incorporating the use of remote intelligence is the best for the organizations these
days, but managing the remote employees is not. Significant leadership skills are required for
managing the remote employees. Leadership traits and skills are a must for managing the
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remote teams. Firstly, the manager must be indefatigable, who can manage the remote teams
at different time zones. Secondly, the manager must be evangible, who can bring positivity
about the organizational culture and work in the minds of the remote workers an at the same
time at help in vanishing the negative ones. Thirdly, the manager must be encouraging who at
all points of bump can easily encourage the remote workers. Also, the remote manage must
be approachable and constructive both at the same time, which reduces the problems of
communication and discontentment with the management of remote workers (Parris, 2017).
Conclusion
It can be fairly concluded that remote working is the best technology for the organizations in
today’s world and it is aboe the level of telecommuting as it provides significant benfits to the
organizations using it. Although there are various problems in managing the remote working,
but they can be avoided by taking certain steps like communicating with best tools and
advancements that help in overcoming the issue of possibily managing the same. Also, by
setting the expectations and stating the working hours properly to the remote workers, the
management of remote workers could be a less of a challenge. Thus, it is clear that remote
intelligence is and will create and change the future of working environment in the best
possible way.
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