Time Travel: 2014

Lin Hui continued: "By the way, don't talk about academics.

Recently, my communication with Eve has been so complicated that I feel really tired. "

Huang Jing joked: "You know how tired you are, I thought you were tireless..."

Lin Hui couldn't help but smile. In fact, he had been tireless in dealing with many computer-related things since his rebirth.

It's just that he didn't want to appear too evil.

Lin Hui smiled faintly and said: "How could it be possible? If we don't talk about this, let's continue talking about the online office software your friend made."

Huang Jing said: "If you feel that it is not economical to buy the entire online office software he created, I have an idea."

Lin Hui said: "Tell me about it."

Huang Jing said: "You mentioned it just now. It's just for emergency needs, and it won't last too long, so I think you might as well rent this software."

Lin Hui asked doubtfully: "You mean software leasing?"

Huang Jing said: "To be more precise, it is a rental service. Although software leasing is not very common in China, it is almost the most common way of operating software abroad.

By leasing software, you don't have to buy software anymore, and you don't have to pay for the rest of the software's functions just for temporary needs.

When leasing, you can also make certain customization requirements for the software and carry out adaptation transformation.

Like the current online office system, when you rent it, you can choose a cloud deployment plan according to your needs.

Even if it is in-depth customization, even the UI style can be requested individually.

besides……"

Lin Hui said: "The idea you mentioned is indeed a good one, but are you sure your friend will rent it?"

Huang Jing said: “Of course I am sure, generally start-up teams have deep feelings for their achievements.

If it were not for the unsustainability of operations or the greater commercial dividends, few start-up teams would transfer their results as a whole.

My friend and his team initially preferred renting out the software rather than selling it.

However, due to the lack of suitable customers, we had no choice but to seek transfer.

I believe they would be happy to negotiate with you if they learned that you were looking for software leasing. "

Although I have a lot of systematic ideas about online office in my mind.

But after thinking about it carefully, Lin Hui felt that there was no rush when it came to online office work.

To a large extent, online office work can only be achieved through accumulated experience.

If you rush into it without any foundation, you will easily get stuck in the quagmire.

The last thing Lin Hui wants to encounter now is to waste a huge amount of time due to some wrong strategic directions.

It's easy to lose more than you gain.

Taken together, leasing is indeed a good choice.

Moreover, Huang Jing described the software startup team as miserable, so it seemed that leasing would not cost too much.

So Lin Hui nodded and said: "That's good. Then Sister Huang, I need you to help me contact the center."

Huang Jing smiled and said: "It's not troublesome, it's a piece of cake."

Huang Jing then asked: "By the way, how long will it take to rent?"

Lin Hui thought for a while and said in deep thought: "Let's rent it for half a year. If there is still demand after half a year, let's talk about it."

Huang Jing nodded and said, "Okay."

Huang Jing's relieved tone made Lin Hui a little curious.

Lin Hui asked in confusion: "What's wrong? Why do you seem relieved when you hear that I'm renting for half a year?"

Huang Jing said: “I’m really relieved, it’s okay to respond to emergencies like online telecommuting for a short period of time.

If you use this thing for a long time, various problems may easily occur.

If the online remote office system that has been used for a long time is used for online office work, it will easily expose some shortcomings.

As the size of the enterprise increases and the number of businesses increases, the cost of remote working and communication will increase exponentially.

In addition, online remote working can easily reduce employees’ sense of participation.

Don’t underestimate the fact that employees feel less engaged.

Although domestic companies do not attach much importance to employee participation.

European and American companies regard employee participation as a very important thing.

Just take technology companies in Silicon Valley as an example. Every year, they spend no less than a billion dollars on cultivating employee participation and brand identity.

However, online remote working is something that is almost opposite to the sense of participation. This is why all the current software that focuses on online working is not very good.

In short, there are many problems of this kind, and such problems can easily break out after long-term use. "

Lin Hui knew that Huang Jing had been very subtle in what he said. The fact is that if problems such as online telecommuting broke out in a concentrated manner, it would be fatal.

Huang Jing said that this is also the biggest drawback of traditional online office work.

However, these problems are not unsolvable.

The application of distributed collaborative office can effectively solve many of the shortcomings of traditional remote office.

Although distributed collaboration still has shortcomings, it is still superior to traditional remote office distributed collaboration.

Although starting from actual application scenarios, online remote working and distributed collaboration both refer to working in different office spaces.

But there are still many differences between the two in essence.

Telecommuting gives people the feeling of distance, whether it is people or things, they are out of reach.

Remote working is often like accessing and controlling one or a bunch of invisible machines through the network.

This kind of communication is one-way, boring and inefficient.

Telecommuting emphasizes the geographical location of workers.

In terms of how to collaborate as a team and how to get the job done better, remote work does not provide a good solution.

Distributed collaboration is different.

Members of a distributed team are not in the same place, but it focuses more on collaboration between teams.

Communication among members is two-way or even multi-way. They have common goals and work together to achieve them.

An organization that adopts a remote working model will have some problems.

For example, employees working on-site may feel unfair.

Because people with remote working permissions may be lying on the sofa at home, enjoying a delicious meal in front of the computer.

Of course, the flip side is that employees working remotely may feel like they've lost a strong connection to the organization.

Although they can work through the Internet, communication with team members becomes less, which is not conducive to the construction of a team atmosphere.

Compared with remote working, the distributed collaboration model does not have to worry about this.

Distributed collaboration greatly simplifies the communication process of traditional teams.