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If you are the HR Manager of an IT company, you may well have a couples or series of 'strangers' working in your office. These independent employees have perhaps ended up working in your office because you had to fulfill a short and lucrative IT contract, but did not want to recruit permanent staff members .It is likely that you then turned to an IT outsourcing solutions company to solve your 'staffing crunch' Who is a virtual worker? Most of us have heard of virtual workers (also known as teleworkers or telecommuters), but we don't really know what or who they are, or worse what to do with them in our business, Apar Infotech Pte Ltd in Singapore, who specializes in recruiting and managing high-end IT software engineers and the like. However, HR managers will wonder how they can manage the performance of workers that they will never or hardly ever, meet? Managing virtual workers Apar believes that managing virtual workers requires several steps. Define your virtual employee Who is virtual worker? At the simplest level, a virtual worker can be anyone who is not physically located within you own office, or most located somewhere else. Basically, the virtual employee does not work at his or her employer's business premises. Telecommuters, contract workers, and employees on the other side of the world, can all be classified as virtual workers. For instance, an IT project in Singapore can be supported by software specialists plugged into your company's network outside metro Manila, for instance Editorial works is increasingly undertaken in a non face-to-face interactive manner, with editors in say, Hong Kong, putting together an Asian food magazine. Dominant role of technology The use of technology is what defines a virtual worker. He or she will typically constantly use such mobile devices such as laptop, remote-linked PC and a mobile phone to transfer work or communicate with the head office. |
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