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Electronic Immigrants 

The Pros and Cons of Virtual Teams

The value of hiring electronic immigrants is that a company is not restricted to a pool of candidates within its own country. On the contrary, it can use the Internet to look beyond borders and hire talent from the other side of the world—with the added bonus that the talent is under no compulsion to relocate to the employer’s country: the electronic immigrant can work from afar thanks to the innovative advancements made in digital communications technology (Blake & Surprenant, 1990; Targowski, 2015). With the possibility of telecommuting to work now a reality, companies are not required to relocate workers nor to confine their searches to local candidates. For both of these reasons, there is a great deal of value in hiring electronic immigrants: (a) doing so increases the odds that the firm will obtain the degree of talent it requires, and (b) doing so permits the firm to save on the costs traditionally associated with hiring abroad—there is no relocation cost, no fees associated with worker visas and permits, and no fees associated with cultural gaps and culture training (Pelton, 2004).

The disadvantages to employing electronic immigrants are that e-leadership effectiveness in virtual teams comes with its own set of challenges (Fang, Chen & Weng, 2014).

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Particularly when it comes to electronic immigrants generating creative ideas for problem solving, the distance barrier is still present because there is only so much management that can be achieved through virtual management (Fang et al., 2014). Workers are still on their own for most of the time and are not available for face to face communications (other than virtual telecommunications like Skype or FaceTime). And impressing upon electronic immigrants the kind of values that are promoted in the workplace where employees at the physical location are immersed in a specific workplace culture can make the process of maximizing potential rather difficult when it comes to hiring electronic immigrants.

I do foresee a time when many workers will be remote—but probably not “most” because there is still something to be said about the tangible workplace environment wherein workers are physically together, fostering a team spirit, engaging in a workplace culture, and daily interacting even if just in small ways to ensure that the right kind of camaraderie, vision, values, and mission are being achieved, pursued and developed. The hiring of….....

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