Businesses commonly buy telepresence robots to inexpensively bring distant employees back "into the fold" at the office, says Fred Nikgohar, the company's boss.
Mobile phones proved unreliable as masts were blown down, and Boeing, Southwest Airlines and UPS are among those companies that have modified their procedures as a result, relying more on e-mails, hot lines and their own websites to keep in touch with distant employees.While most big companies are continually refining their business continuity plans, many smaller firms are not.
In any case, it's possible that in the not-too-distant future, employees won't just be playing with their cell phones during business meetings, they'll be sneakily building a mini-bar back at their work station.
(You wouldn't want, in their place, an older worker who not only costs more but also remembers that distant nirvana when employees had rights).
The reasons include working hours that are unsatisfactory to prospective employees, distant locations and a dearth of sector-specific skills.
In many organisations, employees feel distant from senior management.
That is as it should be, but it is worth recalling that past indictments for banks' violations have focused on lower-level bank employees or distant subsidiaries, while higher-level executives have remained immune.
Soon after all of the elbow rubbing and camera flashes, the celebs watched the film in IMAX, while the commoners, aka ticket contest winners, wives and friends of celebrities, WB employees, celebs distant relatives, and other people who knew some people, had to watch it on a regular screen.
In a space the size of a small cathedral, but clean and tidy as a science lab, only two employees are visible: distant, purposeful figures in dust coats.
Employees, too, felt distant from Rollins, even though he had been with the company since leaving Bain Consulting in 1996.
It allows a large group of employees, scattered in distant sites, to share materials or haggle over a project, such as a document, budget or project.
