Creating Distributed Teams: Why Every Organization Must Think Beyond Hiring Local Talent

The concept of working full-time from an office is completely dead, a point I tried very hard to get across in a previous article I wrote here called the 8 Indisputable Reasons Why We Don't Need Offices. To build on that theme a bit more I wanted to explore the idea of "distributed teams," that is teams that work together yet may be spread out all over the world. Flexible work, telecommuting, distributed teams, freelancers, and the like are all a part of the same type of new work styles we are s...