Virtual Office Overview

Multiple issues continue to impact State operations, including low wages, difficulty finding well qualified candidates, high absenteeism and turnover rates, an aging workforce, and budget constraints that require agencies to “do more with less.”  Virtual Office (VO) is an effective way of minimizing the impacts of these issues while creating a better, more flexible work environment for State employees. 

What is Virtual Office?

Virtual Office fulfills the roles of a traditional office site utilizing the employee’s home as their worksite by interfacing employees electronically to documents, other employees, and their managers.  To formally explain Virtual Office it is imperative to define both Virtual Office and Virtual Office Worker:

Virtual Office

A Virtual Office is defined as “a fully functional worksite that is not bound to a specific location but is portable and scalable, connecting employees to the work process in the most advantageous setting, rather than employees having to come to a central office site to connect to the work process.”

Virtual Office Worker

A Virtual Office Worker is defined as “an employee consistently working at home or at a remote location with no designated work space or computer equipment provided at a State office.”