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The easiest way to imagine the virtual office without diminishing its actual meaning is to
imagine a conventional company. A conventional company is a place, be it a building or
home-shop or home-office or a store's office where there are people in and out there as
employees and customers. Just as normally a company has a product, service, post-sales
service, customer service etc...
At companies that use virtual office as their business engine, it's the physical 'office
building' which eliminated and replaced with a virtual office with no physical form anymore
but instead replaced with electronic means. How can it be possible..... Well, of course it's
possible, it even provides many advantages. Just keep reading the explanation.
2. Benefits of Virtual Office
Because of the omission (or not using) the building, then practically we do not maintain a
building. 'Cost cut-off' , is one of the benefit derived from it.
In terms of time savings, business activities can be done from anywhere or everywhere
wherever the business person are; not necessarily has to be done from the office building.This benefit is especially very meaningful to city that often occurs traffic congestion, such
as Jakarta, as this indirectly will boost company productivity due to increased business
activity that could be done rather than get stucked on jammed road wasting time cannot do
anything (more income).
3. How Business Activities Carried Out with Virtual Office Concept
So where lies the office of business entities that implemented virtual office concept? The
answer is both simple and "as if" less plausible but is actually very simple and very logical,
namely: "Email, telephone, fax, website etc". Please keep reading on this information inorder to avoid misinformation due to incomplete information received.
Roughly what activities are conducted by a business entity to drive the wheels of their
business, the following are the description:
3.1. Mailing
OpenTEK calls it mail-forwarding. A company would receive letters or goods every
day. For this function businessman / entrepreneurs use the address supplied by the
provider of virtual office. Next, provider of virtual office will deposit and notify the
receipt of the letter / package which then be picked up or delivered to respective
accomplished with ERP and Gantt chart tools. But not all work is complicated enough
to warrant the usage of ERP or Gantt chart tools. Depending on manager's perception
in regulating its business activities.
You've probably heard of the successes of OSS developers (OpenSource Softwares)
such as when making Linux Operating System, Apache Foundation, etc. They are a
community or non-commercial entities who are very successfully applied the concept
of virtual office. Thousands of software developers involved in the development of
popular software collaborated without coming to 'face-to-face' , while many othersoftware vendors work 'face-to-face' in fancy offices that is expensive the maintenance
costs. A reality that testifies that the concept of virtual office realistically is affordable
and applicable.
Worth to try on your business if you can get several benefits, cut-cost in everything
either financial or time-cost.
3.6. Production and ServiceSee 'collaboration' point above.
3.7. Business entities activities that have not been discussed here
• Big companies like Beverly Hills also has implemented virtual office-->http://express-press-release.net/17/Beverly%20Hills%20Company%20Takes%20the%20Virtual%20Office%20concept%20to%20new%20levels.php
• Fred Doleac of USA, established property company by implementing virtual officeconcept --> http://activerain.com/fdoleac;
• This guidebook uses a virtual office for contractors and consultants company:"Implementing the Virtual Project Management Office: Proven Strategies forSuccess". Can be bought here --> http://www.lulu.com/product/
• This lightweight but very effective book, is more general or not specific: "Managingthe Mobile Workforce: Leading, Building, and Sustaining Virtual Teams: Leading,Building, and Sustaining Virtual Teams". Can be bought here-->http://www.lulu.com/product/ebook/managing- the-mobile-workforce-leading-building-and-sustaining- virtual-teams-leading-building-and-sustaining-virtual-teams/12989451?productTrackingContext=search_results/search_shelf/center/2;
• This book discuss in neatly manner the ways to 'break down' work for delegationand performance appraisal as we have mentioned on this guide: "AdministrativeOffice Management: An Introduction". Can be bought here: " http://www.lulu.com/product/paperback/administrative-office-management-an-introduction/6623418;
• Post-recession economy made virtual office more flourishing among Englandcommunities' business life --> http://edition.cnn.com/2009/BUSINESS/11/05/second.life.virtual.collaboration/;
• Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta -->http://net.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/CNC9666.pdf.