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Virbela is used by eXp Realty, Lockheed Martin, Department of Defense, Stanford Business School, and others.
Benefits of Remote Work for Employers
- Businesses save an average of $11,000 per employee annually
- Allows companies to hire the most talented employees regardless of geographical location
- Improves employee retention rate
- Increased Productivity
- Reduces brick-and-mortar costs
- Reduced travel expenses
Benefits of Remote Work for Employees
- Employees save an average of $4,500
- Allows employess to work with the most innovative companies regardless of geographic location
- Improved work-life balance
- Improved Morale
Challenges of Remote Work for Employers
- Building a shared culture
- Communicating consistently
- Managing and evaluating employees
- Facilitating synchronous collaboration
Challenges of Remote Work for Employees
- Feelings of isolation
- Miscommunication and lack of direction
- Inability to synchronously collaborate with colleagues
- Perceived as less valuable than in-office
Team Rooms are a private suite inside our Open Campus that includes:
- All Open Campus Features
- Personal Suite for 20 people
- 12 Private Offices
- Reservable Conference Rooms and Auditoriums
- Branded Locations
- Technical Support
- Administrator Accounts
- Members Network
10/26/20 – Why Zoom isn’t the future of work by Duncan Wardle, former vice president of innovation and creativity at The Walt Disney Company. “Take VirBELA, where employees craft a digital avatar and navigate a corporate campus that would put even the most lavish Silicon Valley firms to shame. In VirBELA, you walk from meeting to meeting. You bump into people waiting for virtual coffee. You can go to the auditorium to watch a presentation or get virtual exercise playing soccer over lunch. Sure, it’s all on screens — but it feels much more real. It’s the exact serendipity Jobs worked so hard to create at Pixar. And it’s what ultimately will help bring back creative inspiration to your office.”
7/27/20 – Google staff to work from home at least through July 2021
From a 6/29/20 New York Times Article: “The data over the last three months is so powerful,” he said. “People are shocked. No one found a drop in productivity. Most found an increase. People have been going to work for a thousand years, but it’s going to stop and it’s going to change everyone’s life.”
Innovation, Dr. Sullivan added, might even catch up eventually. “When you hire remotely, you can get the best talent around and not just the best talent that wants to live in California or New York,” he said. “You get true diversity. And it turns out that affects innovation.”
Mr. Laermer, the public relations executive, is more cautious about the implications of the crisis. In March, when he shut down his office, he anticipated disaster — like what happened on Fridays in 2017, but five times worse. Instead, things have been pretty good. He even hired a few people he had never met, via Zoom, “and they’ve been phenomenal.” What changed? Well, the technology, including Zoom, is better. Moreover, “we have rules now,” he said. “You have to be available between 9 a.m. and 5:30 p.m. You can’t use this as child care.”