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Select, Place, and Analyze Graphics
(2b, 5b, 6b, 6d, 8c) For this assignment, you’ll be assuming the role of an M-Global employee who has been asked to research and write a memo about working remotely. You’ve already written memo, but have yet to select graphics to enhance your memo.
Using the Select, Place, and Analyze Graphics document, select and place graphics into the memo and then answer the questions that follow.
Check out Chapter 13 for more information about selecting and using graphics in your technical documents.
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Select, Place, and Analyze Graphics
Directions:
Step 1: Read the memo on Remote Work below.
Step 2: From the Potential Graphics below, choose the most appropriate graphic or graphics for the memo and copy and paste them into the Remote Work memo. Feel free to reformat the memo and/or resize the images as appropriate. In addition, you may want to modify the text of the memo accordingly. (20 points)
Step 3: When you’re done placing the graphics, answer the questions that follow. (45 points)
To: Margaret Jennings, Senior Vice President of HR
From: TYPE YOUR NAME HERE
Date: TYPE DATE HERE
Subject: Remote Work
Margaret,
Last year, Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson wrote a book all about the benefit of working from home. It’s called Remote: No Office Required. In it, they make no bones about it. Working from home is the next big trend in the business world.
Who are Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson? They only happen to be two of the most successful businessmen of the past decade. They are the founders of 37 Signals, the company that created Basecamp, the ridiculously simple project manage tool that thousands of businesses have adopted. So, Fried and Heinemeier Hansson know a thing or two about running a business.
According to Remote, “Letting people work remotely is about promoting quality of life, about getting access to the best people wherever they are, and all the other benefits we’ll enumerate. That it may end up reducing costs spent on offices and result in fewer-but-more productive workers is the gravy, not the turkey.” (Page 31)
According to Fried and Heinemeier Hansson, our organization probably already utilizes remote teams, but we don’t realize it. I did a little digging and, sure enough, our organization outsources its legal, accounting, payroll, or advertising. There you have it. We already utilize remote teams.
“Without outside people to perform these key functions you might not even be in business. All of these activities are carried out outside your company’s walls, away from your company’s network, and outside your management’s direct control—and yet there’s no doubt it’s all being done efficiently…You may be surprised to discover that your company is more remote than you think.” (Page 41)
But don’t take their word for it; let’s look at the data. According to Global Workplace Analytics:
- Telework Grew Nearly 80% from 2005—Growth of Multiple Days per Week Employee Teleworkers (not including self-employed) telecommuting increased 79.7% from 2005 to 2012 though the rate of growth slowed during the recession
- A typical telecommuter is 49 years old, college educated, a salaried non-union employee in a management or professional role, earns $58,000 a year, and works for a company with more than 100 employees.
- A typical business would save $11,000 per person per year
- The telecommuters would save between $2,000 and $7,000 a year
So, the direction is clear. Business experts are proclaiming the benefits of remote employees and the data corroborates it. It is my recommendation that we establish a remote work initiative immediately to take advantage of this new trend and to attract the best talent.
I’ll let Fried and Heinemeier Hansson have the last word:
“Remote work is here, and it’s here to stay. The only question is whether you’ll be part of the early adopters, the early majority, the late majority, or the laggards. The ship carrying the innovators has already sailed, but there are still plenty of vessels for the early adopters. Come on board.” (Page 206)
I take that back, let’s let Richard Branson (yes, that Richard Branson) have the last word.
“In thirty years’ time, as technology moves forward even further, people are going to look back and wonder why offices ever existed.”
Sources
Fried, J., & Heinemeier Hansson, D. (2013). Remote: Office Not Required (1st ed., p. 256). Crown Business.
Latest Telecommuting Statistics. (2013, September 1). Retrieved November 25, 2014, from http://globalworkplaceanalytics.com/telecommuting-statistics
Potential Graphics
Graphic 1
Latest Telecommuting Statistics. (2013, September 1). Retrieved November 25, 2014, from http://globalworkplaceanalytics.com/telecommuting-statistics
Graphic 2
Latest Telecommuting Statistics. (2013, September 1). Retrieved November 25, 2014, from http://globalworkplaceanalytics.com/telecommuting-statistics
Graphic 3
Fried, J. (2013, February 13). REMOTE: Office Not Required. The new book by 37signals. Coming fall 2013. Retrieved December 10, 2014, from https://signalvnoise.com/posts/3435-remote-office-not-required-the-new-book-by-37signals-coming-fall-2013
Graphic 4
Digital Vision. (2013, January 1). Man In Armchair With Feet Up Using Laptop Smiling Stock Photo 200272894-001. Retrieved December 10, 2014, from http://www.thinkstockphotos.com/image/stock-photo-man-in-armchair-with-feet-up-using-laptop/200272894-001/popup?sq=home office/f=CPIV/p=2/s=DynamicRank
Graphic 5
Creatas. (2013, January 1). Woman Using Computer In Home Office Stock Photo 76765491. Retrieved December 10, 2014, from http://www.thinkstockphotos.com/image/stock-photo-woman-using-computer-in-home-office/76765491/popup?sq=home office/f=CPIHV/s=DynamicRank
Graphic 6
Tiedge, K. (2013, January 1). African American Man Holding Laptop Stock Photo 79396288. Retrieved December 10, 2014, from http://www.thinkstockphotos.com/image/stock-photo-african-american-man-holding-laptop/79396288/popup?sq=home office/f=CPIV/s=DynamicRank
Graphic 7
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Questions
- Why did you choose the graphics you did? What purpose did they serve? Refer to Chapter 13 to learn about what purpose graphics serve. (15 points)
Type at least 3-5 sentences in this box. |
- What was it about the design of the graphics that made you choose the ones you did? Why did you omit the graphics you didn’t choose? Refer to the Chapter 13 for design considerations. (15 points)
Type at least 3-5 sentences in this box. |
- Why did you place the graphics where you did? Refer to Chapter 13 to learn about graphic placement. (15 points)
Type at least 3-5 sentences in this box. |