Remote and alone: Coping with being the remote member on the team

Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 1257-1266

  Koehne, Benjamin ^a   Shih, Patrick C ^a   Olson, Judith S ^a  

^a 5226 Donald Bren Hall   (United States)

Author keywords

best practices.; distributed teams; individual remote worker; visibility management

Indexed keywords

BEST PRACTICES.; COMMUNICATION PLATFORMS; COPING STRATEGIES; DISTRIBUTED TEAMS; DISTRIBUTED WORK; PERSONAL CONNECTIONS; PERSONAL LIVES; REMOTE WORKERS; SOCIAL SUPPORT;

COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; MANAGEMENT; MANAGERS; VISIBILITY;

HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT;

EID: 84858216659     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2145204.2145393     Document Type: Conference Paper

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