Won’t having distributed groups create communication challenges and different cultures within the scattered group?
There is no contiguous physical space in CUL large enough to seat everyone in LTS in one room or even in one building. The Technical Services Integration Team has taken a physically distributed organization as a given since the onset of the project. It is true that having staff in separate physical locations will be challenging. However, we are exploring ways to address the potential difficulties that a unified but distributed workforce may present. Besides hoteling, possible solutions include: Technology for virtual teams. Software tools used by virtual teams in the private sector link people around the country and the world. We are exploring the feasibility of such tools for our use. Create teams from different places and functions to work on special projects or initiatives. The task force created to administer and analyze the results from the all-staff survey was one such team. LTS managers plan to involve geographically dispersed staff in many team-based activities so that the phys
