4. What is Tele-working
Its just another way of saying working from home
Fact: in the year 2005 11% of the working population in Europe was working home using ICT
How has new technology developments affected people?
Enabled them to become less tied to an office to do their work
Ability to communicate with colleagues via VPN which is virtual private network from a distance has allowed
employees to work away from the office a grater period of time
What do you need?
Pc with internet access
Access to e-mail
Fax machine
Landline phone
Mobile phone
Printer
Scanner
Appropriate software
5. Who can work from home? Professional services tax advice or legal advice
Writing book/Editing
Translation of documents
Technical customer support
Telesales marketing
Computer programming
Qualities required to work from home
The person must be able to manage their line well
The must be well motivated
The must have good communication skills
They must have good self discipline
They must have good time management skill
Remote working
People live a distance way from the office
How do these workers stay connected with the office?
Devices that have wireless networking capabilities
Mobile telephones
Remote working users
6. ENGINEERS
Can use a PDA to email their report can use a sophisticated database work processing software
Doctors. Use laptops with wife and are able to connect to the high security VPN
Access patient records
Travelling
Salesman.
Can use their mobile phone to contact other salesman
RAS it stand for remote
Access services
At a allows the workers to access their desktop on their own PC when they are way from home or form the
office
Public Network
There are couple of things that a company must be cautions about before they can allow person
Office based working
Will the worker spend their wisely or will they just watch television
Is the data with them safe or confidential if it is being transmitted outside the company?
Professional terms. A number of employees fear their jobs, feeling that if they are out of daily routine they
might be easier to lay off when the company is looking to make.
7. What things necessary in an office?
Desktop computes connected to a LAN or WAN
Internet
Email facilities
Networked printers
Video Conferencing
What is video conference?
It is the electronic equivalent of a conventional conference.
What are the essential components?
Standard pc (with keyboard and mouse)
Monitor speakers network connection webcam microphone video conferencing
Uses of video conferencing
In education
In medical applications
In business
Type of video conferencing
Individual access to the conference
Groups are involved rather then individuals
8. Phone conferencing
There conferences can be held by.
Mobile telephone landline telephones VOIP (Voice Over Internet Protocol)
What is required to have a phone conference?
The person who organize the conference is proved with 2 PIN
Personal PIN
Participant PIN
VOIP. This is when you can use the internet as way of communicating
9. Advantage.
International calls or long distance calls are the same price as a local call if not free.
Disadvantage.
Can only make the call if the person on the other end uses the same ISP.
ISP’s do not allow you to make emergency calls.
Instant messaging
What is instant messaging?
It is the exchange of text message between 2 or more people logged into a specific IM service
What does it required?
User name password
10. Faxing?
Fax is a short form for Facsimile Transmission
It is connected to a phone line
The documents is scanned
The fax machine on the other end then prints it out.
Electronic Faxing
The internet can be used for faxing
The user print the document directly to the faxing software
The user can then either receive this as a fax on their fax machine or if they have the
same software they can use it to convert the document in a form that can be stored.
Advantages.
Same time of going to the fax machine in order to receive or send fax
Running cost is lower
Confidential faxes are slower
You don’t necessarily have to be in the office to collect the fax