Virtual teams less productive: HR Research Findings

The Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) reports in a “Meta Analysis of Virtual Teams” that virtual teams are less productive and demonstrate worse judgement that ‘face to face’ teams but there are ways to improve things.

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Top Challenges facing virtual teams

  • Virtual teams consistently take longer to complete tasks than face-to-face teams

  • Complex judgment tasks resulted in the lowest performance for virtual teams versus face-to-face teams




Top Opportunities for virtual teams

  • If team members are familiar with each other prior to becoming part of the team, they are able to perform almost as effectively as face-to-face teams

  • Virtual team communication improves when meetings are synchronous allowing a continuous exchange of information


The article also briefly discusses the implications of these challenges and opportunities

It worth noting however that some of findings are at odds with other research I have seen.

The reader will have to decide for themselves which research they choose to trust in these contentious areas.

Perhaps some more research is required!



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