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Claire R. McInerny
The State University of New Jersey

“Virtual/Remote offices becomes a common job choice for employees who are aware of the benefits to
both employers and employees. In an age of information, where knowledge itself is the key to
performing tasks, understanding how knowledgeable telephone professionals acquire, use, and rely on
information is key to good management. This document reports on four corporate studies in which
specialized librarians and company information managers support their remote clients technically
through research services and provide information products and services. Through interviews and
research this study explored the correlation between management's perceptions of telecommunications
needs and information needs and services as seen by television itself.”

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Executive Summary:

P
owerMix.io is an online platform which allows the individual/users to work virtually
from home and on remote basis. It helps the users to establish business, startups
and handle their already running business. In today’s rapid advancement in
technology, human life has become fast and non-steady. In all this hustle, it is
impossible o follow the old traditional physical office culture. Concept of Virtual
offices has made human life much easier and convenient. Now they can manage and control
their business and everything related from their home and with the palm of their hands or with
the tips of their fingers.
Hiring is an essential and sensitive part of any company. Employees decides the future of
company. Entrepreneurs are limited to only hiring people form their local areas and in some
cases, they’re unable to find skillful and talented people in their surroundings and they end up
on hiring unprofessional employees. But these barriers are no more. Companies have now
access to skillful and professional workers around the globe through virtual platforms like
PowerMix.io.
We are a virtual office uphold administrations organization that is set to contend in the
exceptionally serious Serviced Office Leasing industry in the United States. Not in the US only,
but all over the world, around the globe via emerging internet.
The subject of this study is a global virtual/remote office activity, referring to organizational
work that is carried out outside the normal space and time organization. The basis of the
research is that remote work will become more important in the future, - as the extension
includes full-time members of the organization who work remotely at least part of a regular
work week. Research focuses on one's place in the workplace, not on physical relationships
between co-workers (remote partnerships) or between employees and their supervisors
(remote monitoring).

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Table of Contents:
Introduction:...............................................................................................................................................5
About Us:.................................................................................................................................................5
Purpose...................................................................................................................................................5
Top trend.................................................................................................................................................5
Look Beyond Borders...............................................................................................................................5
How we work...........................................................................................................................................6
Working from Home....................................................................................................................................6
Virtual Office............................................................................................................................................9
How it works............................................................................................................................................9
Advantages and Responsibilities.................................................................................................................9
Task Orientation....................................................................................................................................10
Pros and Cons............................................................................................................................................11
Industry Overview.....................................................................................................................................13
SWOT Analysis...........................................................................................................................................15
Strength.................................................................................................................................................15
Weakness..............................................................................................................................................16
Opportunities........................................................................................................................................16
Threats...................................................................................................................................................16
Market Analysis.........................................................................................................................................18
Target Market........................................................................................................................................18
Sales and Marketing Strategy................................................................................................................19
Advertisement (Publicity)......................................................................................................................20
Conclusion.................................................................................................................................................21

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Introduction:
About Us:
Powermix is a platform you can
find talents globally to work with, entering our virtual office,
you can get the whole experiences of organized, collaborated, automated environment.
Entrepreneurs, find someone who will be part of your worldwide
remote team to achieve your big dreams.
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We art PowerMix.io allows you to enter in the virtual world. We offer professional services
across the boundaries. It is one of the biggest trends right now in the whole world. We at
PowerMix.io stepped into this trending innovation. It is the best place for hiring employees,
searching for talent, attract and retain people.

Purpose:
Basically, there are 4 stages in which company travels through. They are initial stage, growth
stage, maturity period and decline. When a firm complete its initial stage and enters into
growth, it needs employees and workers, talented employees and workers. Because hiring is
not all about the number of employees and workers you hire. It’s about the talented and
professional workers and employees. In some cases, you’re unable to hire workers within your
local areas, so you look beyond borders. We allow you to hire best talent for your business
anywhere in the world.

Top trend:
People now a days prefer remote working because it allows employees to have complete
control over their work and life. It also provides flexibility. Virtual offices are now more
attractive rather than traditional.

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Look Beyond Borders:
As we discussed earlier in our purpose that sometimes, companies are unable to find talented
and professionals in their surroundings or local areas. But you’re no more limited to recruiting
unprofessional from your surroundings. In such forward-thinking environment, talent should
not be caged to a certain location or place. Through our virtual office at PowerMix.io,
companies and individuals can now hire and access to talented and skillful people around the
globe.

How we work?
We enable the talented and skillful workers from all over the world, to be gather at one
platform. They create their profile at PowerMix.io, and Entrepreneurs from all over the world,
who are before limited only to hire people from local areas, can hire more skillful and
professionals from our platform.

Working from Home:

Computer and communication technology can allow more work to be done farther away than
before. The term telecommuting has been used to refer to work done remotely from computer
and communication technology. Usually what these words mean is that work is done at home.
Telephone communications are therefore replaced. It is estimated that 50 percent of all office
work can be done in or near the employer's home rather than in the main office, resulting in
significant energy savings.

Telecommuting is often described as the use of telecommunications technology to replace or

partially commute to work. Both as a business response to internal business problems, and as a
transport needs management strategy (TDM), telecommuting is gaining acceptance in the
United States and elsewhere. The U.S., Federal Government and the States of California,
Hawaii, Washington, Arizona, Virginia, Florida, Minnesota and Connecticut (Public Act 90-219)
are at various stages of installing, operating, organizing or testing telecommunications systems.
There are many other initiatives involving local governments and / or private companies.
Abroad, significant efforts are under way in the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Finland,
Germany, and elsewhere in Europe, Japan and Australia. Especially in California, telecommuting
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has become an important element of air quality planning / editing. Telecommuting as a means
of transportation has found its way to a number of public policy documents:

 The 1989 South Coast (California) Air Basin Air Quality Management Plan sets a target
for a 30% reduction in workflows by 2010 due to the combined effects of
telecommunications systems and alternatives.
 Regulation XV of the South Coast Air Management Area (AQMD) includes the use of
telecommunications in the menu of strategies that senior employers should use to
reduce traffic congestion during peak hours. Reg. XV is widely read, and to some extent,
copied, by other parts of the country that do not comply with the requirements of the
Federal Clean Air Act.
 President Bush has supported the use of telecommunications; In launching the National
Transport Policy Statement on March 8, 1990, he said, "Sometimes the best transport
policy means not moving people, but delivering their work ... a practice known as
telecommuting. Millions have already found that their productivity increases as they
work closer to people who really work for them - their families at home ... Think of it as
going to work at the speed of light. "The National Policy Statement also has a brief
section on telecommunications.
 The October 17, 1989, earthquake in Loma Prieto provided unintended impetus for all
traffic control measures, including telecommunications. California Governor George
Deukmejian issued an Executive Order on October 30, 1989, ordering state agencies to
include telecommuting in their emergency response to the quake. Despite its growing
popularity, however, there are many definitions of telecommunications as there are
settings where they are made or viewed. Also, it is not surprising that not all definitions
are compatible.
 The term "telecommuting" is often used in contrast to "working at home". However,
there are various types of homework, including home-based businesses and overtime
work, which can be considered telecommuting. And telecommuting doesn't have to be
home based, some experts feel that the diversity of satellite / local telecommuting
center will eventually become the most popular form.

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  Telecommuting is sometimes compared to telecommuting (24) - the use of
telecommunications-related technologies to perform work. However, not all
telecommunications (e.g., teleconferencing) replace the commute to work. In fact,
working over the phone may or may not allow for other travel.
 Initially, telecommuting was thought to be fully functional. Many commonly identified
barriers to telecommuting (e.g., isolation) work best in the regular version of homework,
and less or less in other forms of telecommuting. These challenges are still being raised
as major obstacles, though it is widely acknowledged that full-time work at home will
eventually become the most unacceptable form of telecommuting. In some settings,
telecommuting is still defined in terms of frequency. Some programs prevent full-time
work from home. One program state that telecommuting "operates one or two days a
week from the home or satellite office and is computerized to the central office". On the
other hand, California's proposed law will provide tax credit to employers who use
telecommunications services, provided that participants post three or more days a
week. (The law in question was introduced until the next session, but in the meantime,
amendments are still being made to provide reduced credit when employees send a call
two days a week).
 Early conversations thought that computers were important for telecommunications,
and that cell phones needed at least "information workers", if not actually computer
programmers and the like. It is now generally accepted that non-computer-based work
(reading, writing, thinking, telephony) can also be as effective as telecommunications.
And while the concept of "information work" may continue, in fact many employees
who cannot be classified as information workers, deal with information (reading,
paperwork) to the point that they can communicate by telephone at least part-time.

In some cases, the difference in meaning is due to the deliberate choice to emphasize certain
aspects of telecommuting or to link telecommuting with other forms of operation. Basically,
though, there is no consensus as to what makes and what is not about telecommunications.
This increase in definitions has a few unintended consequences:

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  The term "telecommuting" means different things to different people, which creates
confusion and misunderstanding. Some people reject the false or limited view you have
of telecommuting (e.g., full-time work at home), without checking each different type of
telecommuting.
 Estimates of the amount of telecommuting available and speculated vary widely, usually
because they are based on different meanings of the word.
 Transport impacts of other work-related alternatives may be minimized or even
overlooked, due to "telecommuting" focus.
 The power of telecommuting transmission signals for other work methods may be
overlooked. That is, we can apply for telecommunications and other information and
skills that are already a common area of related job options.
 Those responsible for implementing public policy (e.g., air quality regulation) designed
to promote telecommunications have difficulty finding effective, vigilant ways to
determine what is called telecommuting.

Virtual Office:
The virtual office provides businesses with a local address and office-related services without
long-term employment with administrative staff. With a virtual office, staff can work from
anywhere but still have things like postal address, call resources, meeting rooms, and
videoconferencing.

How it works?
The concept of remote work is not new. At this stage, various work situations that can be
considered as remote-control functions are systematically organized. This classification is
important because much of the controversy over remote work, especially homework, is caused
by the confused view of who works at home, under what circumstances, and for what reason.
The main categories of importance are where, when, and under what work conditions.

Advantages and Responsibilities:

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You need to know that small businesses are successful and some are not, and these successful
companies are getting on the edge of their competition. Through our years of experience, we
have seen thousands of companies grow by taking advantage of the basic benefits offered by
the visible offices and real assistants described in this guide. Virtual offices and real assistants
give small businesses the opportunity to compete because they allow owners to submit more
time-consuming management services, provide and maintain a professional image to their
customers and customers and greatly reduce the top. These basic benefits will help you explore
and smart jobs.

Task Orientation:
As a small business owner, your time is precious. It needs to be used to produce new, existing
customers clients and look at your business strategy. That means delegating tasks and daily
tasks that will keep you from wasting time on your company vision, your prospects, your
customers and staff. A real helper is more than just receiving a call. Skilled staff with an
assistant can inspect the unwanted calls, answer questions about your business and much more
- your personal assistant.

Here are some of the common tasks a visual office assistant should be able to handle easily:

 Manage data entry

 Route and voicemail messages on mobile or email inbox
 Provide notary services
 Distribute company salaries
 Hold conferences of conferences and events
 Get new browsing details
 Answer customer questions
 Schedule appointments and edit meeting details
 Finish processing online orders
 Transfer mail
 Provide customer order processing
 Fulfillment of marketing materials

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  Complete customer food forms
 Distribute lead information
 Help with custom fulfillment

Virtual Assistants are especially useful if you only need temporary administrative help, but you
can and use many virtual assistants for full-time projects. For example, promoting an event may
create an increase in calls so that a group of visual assistants provided by the visual office
service company can manage volume without the need to hire additional staff or receive and
train temporary help. Think access to a pool of flexible, suitable staff suitable for any of your
needs business line but unlike a traditional office, you only pay for it if you need it.

Pros and Cons:

Virtual work depends on binds a representative's an ideal opportunity to work assignments and
area. It is organized around workers accumulated in a focal area, which permits chiefs to
facilitate exercises and advance inward correspondence. The conventional work design
empowers sharing of social experience, relational coordination, demonstrating of work
practices and offering and looking for guidance. Virtual work, paradoxically, alludes to business
setups outside of the conventional office along a continuum that ranges from intermittent
working from home to "hoteling" (sharing office space in an organization area intended for use
on a drop-in premise) to locally established work to completely versatile representatives. It is
hard to reproduce all conventional office highlights in a virtual office condition, and this makes
the board's capacity to fabricate and keep up a corporate culture more intricate. Innovation
headways, for example, texting and informal communication, permit corporations to connect a
portion of the distinctions, offering options in contrast to some eye to eye cooperation. At IBM,
for instance, colleagues on phone calls with customers can trade business related data by
means of texting continuously with their partners, and workers use an assortment of virtual
long-range informal communication destinations (counting Facebook.com and IBM's own site,
Beehive) to discover and interface with different representatives. Nonetheless, a few issues
require new administration cycles and arrangements that go past innovation. Early examination
has demonstrated that representatives and organizations have various encounters with far off

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work and adjust to it in an unexpected way. From one perspective, the two workers and
organizations see critical advantages. Representatives esteem investing less energy and cash
driving, having greater adaptability and independence in their positions and being more
accessible to manage family obligations. This frequently converts into more noteworthy
occupation fulfillment, lower truancy and higher worker maintenance. For organizations,
benefits incorporate expanded profitability, improved client assistance and lower land costs.
Then again, the two workers and organizations highlight difficulties. Representatives report
liabilities to working distantly, the most genuine being work environment separation and a
feeling that open doors for progression are more restricted. Organizations endeavoring to
oversee far off workers refer to lost hierarchical collaboration, expanded worry about
information security and lost administration power over distant representatives.

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Industry Overview:
The idea of virtual workplaces incorporates the offices, frameworks and administrations that
depend on presenting an office-like arrangement in the working environment. The conditions
for working comprise of virtual, social and physical working spaces, of arranging the work, and
of specialized frameworks. The working spaces envelop both individual and gathering work, for
example, information creation and thinking. By systems administration and expanding
associations, the accentuation of work will move from conventional physical working spaces
towards virtual and bigger social working spaces. The questions that virtual conditions assemble
implicit information, or that it is hard to explain the information, are overstated. The realities
which make it conceivable to create implied information and obvious shared collaboration are
unmistakably connected to virtual conditions and joining junctions in various situations. The
activities of a virtual office depend on a common understanding about how the virtual office
ought to be utilized. The appropriateness of a virtual office to help a gathering relies upon how
well the functioning strategies for every part suit the regular concurred method of working.
Exploration has demonstrated that there are numerous components and complex cooperation
which influence the idea of a virtual office and its appropriateness for a specific job. For
instance, Virtanen and Hakonen (2002) utilize Actor-Network hypothesis to characterize
virtuality through four measurements:

1. Space (different vs same place, dispersed vs fixed place)

2. Time (same, synchronous vs. different, asynchronous; permanent vs temporary)
3. Mode of interaction (face-to-face vs. mediated)
4. Diversity of actors (similar vs. different)

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Both as a business response to internal business problems, and as a need to travel management
strategy (TDM), telecommunication is gaining acceptance in the United States as well
elsewhere. However, there is no consensus on what you are actually doing and not about
telecommunications.

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SWOT Analysis:
A SWOT investigation helps in comprehension and surveying where we stand today and where
we can be later on: our own interior qualities and shortcomings, and the outside circumstances
and dangers.

Helpful Harmful

Internal
Strength Weakness

External
Opportunities Threats

Strength:
 New and trending innovation
 Worldwide accessibility
 Expertise and skills
 Quality cycles
 Technological Advancements
 Able to communicate solidly
 Managing time
 Polished skill
 Dependability
 Cost advantage
 Knowledge
 Team collaboration
 Project Management

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  Innovative Thinking
 Time convenience
 Non-bossy attitude
 No working time barriers

Weakness:
 Inefficient Market
 Lack of awareness
 Internet issues
 Technological Problems
 With respect to competitors, undifferentiated products and services
 New Entrant
 Not efficient communications
 Lack of advertisement and marketing
 Lack of technological skills

Opportunities:
 Can choose client from single to long term
 Developing trend of virtual market
 Pandemics like COVID-19
 Team Building
 Exploring Market
 Able to target a number of geographical market segments
 Building Networks
 Spreading technological awareness and advancements

Threats:
 Threat of new entrant
 Threat of technological trends and advancement
 Pricing when compared with other competitors

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 Market Reputation
 Steady growth
 Government Regulations
 Laws and Policies

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Market Analysis:
The internet has genuinely open up heaps of business openings and virtual office industry is one
of them. Hardly any many years back, who might have accepted that companies might be able
to hire employees through the internet? Or the individuals may get jobs opportunities over a
single platform.

Increasingly more virtual office virtual help administrations suppliers are utilizing on innovation
stages, for example, Skype just as Google Voice to complete their administrations. Experts in
this line of business deal with an authoritative premise or a retainer transport premise.

The expense of hiring or looking for a job in a highbrow business area like New York City et al
continues taking off high, business visionaries who are resolved to stay in the game despite the
fact that they don't have the monetary muscles would consistently grasp virtual office.

In all actuality with the approach of the web, it is presently simpler for virtual office help
specialist organizations to work for customers in any aspect of the world. A virtual office
administrations organization can be situated in the United States of America and have their
greatest customer in United Arab Emirates or Australia; much obliged to the intensity of the
web.

Target Market:
Before beginning our virtual office, we are sure that there is a wide scope of both corporate and
individual customers who can't effectively grow/find jobs in their surroundings and local areas.
Actually, without menial helper like PowerMix, this can’t be possible.

Taking into account that, we have made systems that will empower us contact different
corporate associations and person who we know can't find a platform to work without our
administrations. We have directed our statistical surveying and overview.

The following is a rundown of individuals and associations that we have explicitly targeting:

 Bloggers and site proprietors

 Banks, Insurance Companies and other related Financial Institutions

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  Blue Chips Companies
 Corporate Organizations
 Producers and Distributors
 Land Owners, Developers, and Contractors
 Innovative work Companies
 The Government (Public Sector)
 Strict Organizations
 Ideological groups
 TV channels
 Authors
 Marking and Advertising offices
 Business people
 Entrepreneurs

Sales and Marketing Strategy:

We are aware of the way that there are stiffer rivalries in the virtual offices and help
administrations line of business, subsequently we will likely develop PowerMix.io Virtual Office
Services, to get one of the best 10 virtual office supplier in the United States of America which
is the reason we have outlined technique that will assist us with exploiting the accessible
market and develop to turn into a significant power to deal with in the United States of America
as well as in different pieces of the world.

 Presenting our virtual office organization by sending starting letters/messages close by

our handout to corporate associations, strict associations and key partners.
 Immediacy in offering for virtual help administrations contracts from the legislature and
other collaborate associations.
 Publicize our business in significant business magazines, papers, TV stations, and radio
broadcast.
 Rundown our business on business index promotions.
 Go to important global and neighborhood exhibitions, workshops, and business fairs.

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  Make various bundles for various classification of customers so as to work with their
spending plans and still convey incredible plan and administrations.
 Influence on the web to advance our business.
 Connect direct showcasing approach.
 Energize informal showcasing from faithful and fulfilled customers.

Advertisement (Publicity):
We have the option to work with our in-house brand and exposure experts to assist us with
outlining exposure and promoting techniques that will assist us with strolling our way into the
core of our objective market. We are set to turn into the main decision for both corporate
customers and individual customers in the entire of the United States and past which is the
reason we have made arrangements for successful exposure and ad of our virtual office
platform.

The following are the stages we plan to use on to advance and promote PowerMix.io:

a. Spot adverts on both print (papers and magazines) and electronic media stages.
b. Support pertinent network-based occasions/programs.
c. Influence on the web and web-based media stages like; Instagram, Facebook, Twitter,
YouTube, Google for advancements.
d. Introduce our Bill Boards on vital areas all around New York and other key urban
communities in the United States of America.
e. Disperse our fliers and handbills in target territories
f. Contact corporate associations by ringing them (messaging them also) and advising
them regarding the services we offer at PowerMix.io.
g. Rundown our menial helper organization in nearby registries/business directory
h. Promote our Services Company in our official site and utilize techniques that will assist
us with pulling traffic to the site.
i. Guarantee that all our staff individuals wear our marked shirts and all our official
vehicles are all around marked with our organization logo.

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Conclusion:
It is getting progressively hard survive in a customary business setting. Virtual workplaces are an
incredible cost investment funds that can be hard to turn down, and numerous imminent
workers are searching out organizations that offer this adaptable strategy.

We at PowerMix, allows the consumer and customer to meet and set their terms under a
complete informatory and trustable platform. By offering a work from home arrangement and
providing staff to be a part of remote team, we will dispose of traditional and old barriers and
expenses. As a corporate client, this can have a tremendous money related effect for your
organization by lessening overhead expenses and bills.

At the point when employees can work around close to home commitments all the more
effectively, they invest less energy agonizing over fitting everything into a solitary day. Without
the day by day drive, they will discover more opportunity to really get work done before they
need to go to an arrangement. This work-life adaptability is seen as a profit and can help you
draw in and hold better workers. The cash you save money on overhead and office gear would
then be able to be utilized to offer more significant compensations. With more significant salary
and the chance to telecommute, workers will discover your organization alluring and you can
remain serious in the commercial center.

In conclusion, the virtual office and virtual help administrations industry will keep on developing
because of the progression of PC innovation and programming applications.

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