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...same time, technologies for videoconferencing, Web conferencing and intranet sites have improved in quality and price and have spread around the world. They have made virtual management not only possible but preferable for many companies. Of 82 large multinational firms surveyed by PricewaterhouseCoopers in 2000, 24% allowed home-based employees to manage operations in another country instead of forcing them to relocate. A higher proportion of firms took the more traditional route of sending their managers to live in foreign countries. But looking forward, most companies said they expected to adopt the virtual approach at a much faster rate...
From the beginning, bureaucrats have desperately sought ways to manage this contradiction. In 1997 they set up an intranet with China-only access. It was quietly abandoned. Last month came strict regulations on Internet content and encryption technology. Members of the cyberelite in China yawned. They've perfected the art of finding ways around the government's lockdowns on particular sites, and most companies think the requirement to reveal the encryption codes they use to protect commercial secrets and online merchandising will not be enforced. But after trailing behind the e-curve for so long, Beijing has finally worked...
...center's Intranet, which became functional last week, will be essential to the collaboration...
Westfall-Lake and "wellness supervisor" Jill Thieman have spearheaded a pilot project at a gas-gathering and -processing operation in the Four Corners. Some 400 shiftworkers, including field technicians, plant operators, maintenance workers and office staff, receive information about health and safety via an Intranet site, corporate fairs, family events and special classes. Employees can use company-owned vehicles to car-pool (thus minimizing driving fatigue), take time off while at work to exercise briefly on treadmills and stationary bicycles, and use light boxes that are designed to suppress melatonin, which induces sleep. So far, a third of those involved...
...received very positive feedback on theIntranet in general, and the Course Platformspecifically," he said. "The Intranet hasabsolutely increased student usage of the web forday-to-day information gathering andcommunication...