A small portion of the work time is spent at home. The mobile worker uses a laptop to connect to business systems and communicate. Corporate office environments in miniature that offer more technology than an employee has at home. Located in residential neighborhoods, small groups of employees report to work near home rather than commute. Centers, such as Ontario Telebusiness Work Center in Southern Calif., offer electronically equipped suites to companies.
Employee works from home, but is associated with a traditional office.
Needed for a successful virtual office. Most often, virtual HR is implemented as an efficiency program in traditonal office. Used by some companies to indicate a broader definition of the virtual office, as people may work in airports, hotels or at the client site. Employees may choose, with supervisory approval, to work at home one or more days a week, but maintain a desk or office at the company site.