Remote Work, Telecommuting, and Collaboration
Purpose of this page: To document information about how OIT is currently facilitating remote work, telecommuting and collaboration between teams and staff who are in different physical locations, and to evaluate technologies and methods to increase effectiveness, efficiency and productivity of staff working in different locations.
Executive sponsor and lead of this effort: Brian Buckler
Scope and goals:
- Facilitate more effective methods, technologies and best practices for full or part-time remote workers/telecommuters, and also to facilitate improved communication and collaboration between OIT coworkers who are in different physical locations or even where teams are spread out in private offices within the same building.
- Facilitate open and continuous communication between team members who may otherwise be isolated or excluded from relevant conversations.
- Leverage technologies and methods that allow coworkers in different locations to interact in ways that emulate face-to-face interactions.
- Assess what OIT teams and individual staff are using today and identify what is working well, what are the challenges, and how are the challenges being addressed.
- Pilot/evaluate new technologies and experiment with new approaches.
PILOT PROPOSALS
Proposal for OIT remote work pilot
Pilot proposal for evaluation of the Double robot
NOTES AND RELEVANT INFORMATION AND RESOURCES:
For information about The Double Telepresence robot, click the link to the child page below:
The "Double" telepresence robot
The Meeting Owl
https://www.owllabs.com/meeting-owl/experience
The Meeting Owl is an intelligent 360°all-in-one video conferencing device that centers virtual conferencing around remote participants. Our mission is to create the inclusive meeting experience remote employees deserve. It will be one of the first IoT devices for the company conference room.
Remote Work Best Practices from Trello
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1QJUIzMx6-zSy5oLXtNAA4OMYiC2yON-b
Recorded webinar: Telecommuting - Work is what we do, not where we are
YouTube recording of the presentation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amsiQHbE71M
Slide deck: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1awhbezQT1wPdlwF97r2qGOYPmQfYTAuBwzr3YnwnE8o/edit?usp=sharing
Overview of how UC Recruit, and Chancellor and Provost IT teams are using technology and innovative methods to enhance their team collaboration and their collaboration with remote team members:
UC Recruit, and Chancellor and Provost IT
Notes from interview with Valerie Jones about her experience with remote work in her teams:
Business Intelligence/Data Warehouse
Zoom whiteboarding how-to documentation:
https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/205677665-How-Do-I-Use-Whiteboard-
https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/115004773103-Getting-Started-with-Zoom-Rooms-for-Touch