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# [[What is the cost of the appliances?]] (''by Dejan'')
# [[What is the cost of the appliances?]] (''by Dejan'')
# [[What is the cost of the utilities?]] (''by Dejan'')
# [[What is the cost of the utilities?]] (''by Dejan'')
# [[What kind of appliances can be shared within multiple offices?]] (''by Dejan'')
# [[What are the costs connected to these appliances?]] (''by Dejan'')
# [[What is the cost per employee for the office?]] (''by Dejan'')
# [[How long does it take an average employee to travel from home to office?]] (''by Dejan'')
# [[How much energy on average does an office use?]] (''by Dejan'')
# [[How much energy on average does an office use?]] (''by Dejan'')
# [[How much paper on average does an office use?]] (''by Dejan'')
# [[How much paper on average does an office use?]] (''by Dejan'')
# [[How much ink on average does an office use?]] (''by Dejan'')
# [[How much ink on average does an office use?]] (''by Dejan'')
# [[What kind of appliances can be shared within multiple offices?]] (''by Dejan'')
# [[What are the costs connected to these appliances?]] (''by Dejan'')
# [[How long does it take an average employee to travel from home to office?]] (''by Dejan'')
# [[What kind of debris does an office produce?]] (''by Dejan'')
# [[What kind of debris does an office produce?]] (''by Dejan'')
# [[What kind of communications are in use in an office?]] (''by Dejan'')
# [[What kind of communications are in use in an office?]] (''by Dejan'')
# [[How much is communicating in foreign languages present?]] (''by Dejan'')
 


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# [[What is the cost per employee for the office?]] (''by Erwin'')
# [[How much is communicating in foreign languages present?]] (''by Erwin'')
# [[What is a telecommuter?]] (''by Erwin'')
# [[What is a telecommuter?]] (''by Erwin'')
# [[What is the average percentage of telecommuters?]] (''by Erwin'')
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# [[What is an office?]](''by Qingjing'')<br>
# [[What is an office?]](''by Qingjing'')<br>
# [[What’s the standard utility in modern office? ]](''by Qingjing'')<br>
# [[What’s the standard utility in modern office? ]](''by Qingjing'')<br>
# [[What equipments are used in modern office?]] (''by Qingjing'')<br>
# [[What kind of equipment is used in modern office?]] (''by Qingjing'')<br>
# [[What is the formal technology of communication between head office and oversea office in business?]] (''by Qingjing'')<br>
# [[What is the formal technology of communication between head office and overseas office in business?]] (''by Qingjing'')<br>
# [[What is the formal technology of communication between office and home?]] (''by Qingjing'')<br>
# [[What is the formal technology of communication between office and home?]] (''by Qingjing'')<br>
# [[What communication softwares are used in current office?]] (''by Qingjing'')<br>
# [[What communication software is used in current office?]] (''by Qingjing'')<br>
# [[What is a virtual office?]] (''by Qingjing'')<br>
# [[What is a virtual office?]] (''by Qingjing'')<br>
# [[Is there any hierarchical structure in virtual office?]] (''by Qingjing'')<br>
# [[Is there any hierarchical structure in virtual office?]] (''by Qingjing'')<br>
# [[What is the communication model of the virtual office?]] (''by Qingjing'')<br>
# [[What is the communication model of the virtual office?]] (''by Qingjing'')<br>
# [[What are the benefits of working in virtual office?]] (''by Qingjing'')<br>
# [[What are the benefits of working in virtual office?]] (''by Qingjing'')<br>
# [[What type of organization use virtual office?]] (''by Qingjing'')<br>
# [[What type of organization uses virtual office?]] (''by Qingjing'')<br>
# [[What’s the relationship between organization and virtual office?]] (''by Qingjing'')<br>
# [[What’s the relationship between organization and virtual office?]] (''by Qingjing'')<br>
# [[What’s the relationship between architecture and office?]] (''by Qingjing'')<br>
# [[What’s the relationship between architecture and office?]] (''by Qingjing'')<br>
# [[How many hours the staffs have to work per day? Per weekend?]] (''by Qingjing'')<br>
# [[How many hours does the staff have to work per day? Per weekend?]] (''by Qingjing'')<br>
# [[What’s the security system of current office?]] (''by Qingjing'')<br>
# [[What’s the security system of current office?]] (''by Qingjing'')<br>
# [[How to eliminate the negative influence of time zone?]] (''by Qingjing'')<br>
# [[How to eliminate the negative influence of time zone?]] (''by Qingjing'')<br>
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Revision as of 09:46, 27 April 2008

Group Members

  • Qingjing Yang
  • Tiantian Gu
  • Dejan Radosavljevik
  • Erwin Marges
  • Yuguang Shi

Research Questions

Dejan:

  1. What kind of costs are involved with an office?(by Dejan)
  2. What does it take to build an office? (by Dejan)
  3. How much does cost to build an office? (by Dejan)
  4. How much does cost to lease(rent) an office? (by Dejan)
  5. How much does an office furniture cost? (by Dejan)
  6. What is the cost of the appliances? (by Dejan)
  7. What is the cost of the utilities? (by Dejan)
  8. What kind of appliances can be shared within multiple offices? (by Dejan)
  9. What are the costs connected to these appliances? (by Dejan)
  10. What is the cost per employee for the office? (by Dejan)
  11. How long does it take an average employee to travel from home to office? (by Dejan)
  12. How much energy on average does an office use? (by Dejan)
  13. How much paper on average does an office use? (by Dejan)
  14. How much ink on average does an office use? (by Dejan)
  15. What kind of debris does an office produce? (by Dejan)
  16. What kind of communications are in use in an office? (by Dejan)



Tiantian:

  1. What’s the significance of the Office existence for work?(by Tiantian)
  2. What’s the significance of the Office existence for work efficiency? (by Tiantian)
  3. How does an Office interior influence Office workers? (by Tiantian)
  4. What types of work may perform in an Office? (by Tiantian)
  5. What’s the average size of an Office? (by Tiantian)
  6. Does size of an Office matter if same amount of workers are working inside? (by Tiantian)
  7. What are the different types of existent Office? (by Tiantian)
  8. How big is work space for individual in an Office? What kind of partition method? (by Tiantian)
  9. What kind of decorations are in use in an Office? (by Tiantian)
  10. What are auxiliary establishments for an Office in a building? (by Tiantian)
  11. How do Office chairs and tables designed from the ergonomic point of view? (by Tiantian)
  12. What kind of displays are in use daily in an Office? (by Tiantian)
  13. Is there a demand of wireless in an Office? (by Tiantian)
  14. What are the soft distributions for daily work in an Office? (by Tiantian)
  15. How does the day-to-day equipment maintenance carried out in an Office? (by Tiantian)
  16. What kind of environmental standards an Office should follow? (by Tiantian)
  17. What kind of safety precautions are in use in an Office?? (by Tiantian)



Erwin:

  1. How much is communicating in foreign languages present? (by Erwin)
  2. What is a telecommuter? (by Erwin)
  3. What is the average percentage of telecommuters? (by Erwin)
  4. How is the trend on telecommuting evolving? (by Erwin)
  5. How often is tele/video conferencing used? (by Erwin)
  6. How crucial is the social contact with colleagues? (by Erwin)
  7. What is the average quality of the inter/intra network? (by Erwin)
  8. What is done at an office that cannot be done elsewhere? (by Erwin)
  9. Which communication technologies are mainly used inside an office? (by Erwin)
  10. How often do people have meetings inside the office? (by Erwin)
  11. What technologies / presenting methods are used during meetings? (by Erwin)
  12. How fast do companies implement innovations? (by Erwin)
  13. Does the average employee has the possibility to work at home(room for desck&pc etc) (by Erwin)
  14. How is data security provided? (by Erwin)
  15. Is it safe to work outside the office? (by Erwin)
  16. What are the issues of working at home? (by Erwin)


Yuguang:

  1. What is the origin of the office?(by Yuguang)
  2. Where is the location of the office? (by Yuguang)
  3. What is the cost of the location of office globally? (by Yuguang)
  4. What types of energy are provided for the office? (by Yuguang)
  5. How the hierarchy of the organization reflects on the deployment of the office? (by Yuguang)
  6. What services does the virtual office provide? (by Yuguang)
  7. What are the means to get to the office? (by Yuguang)
  8. How the office opening hour related to the traffic jams? (by Yuguang)
  9. What is the trend of the time people spend in the office in recent decades? (by Yuguang)
  10. What is the difference of working hours in office among different countries? (by Yuguang)
  11. What is the current development of the speech recognition system in the office? (by Yuguang)
  12. What is the current development of the VoIP in the office? (by Yuguang)
  13. How is the office building used for the advertising? (by Yuguangng)
  14. What is the governmental subsidy related to the office? (by Yuguang)
  15. How to purify the air condition in the office? (by Yuguang)
  16. What kinds of illness related to the office? (by Yuguang)


Qingjing:

  1. What is an office?(by Qingjing)
  2. What’s the standard utility in modern office? (by Qingjing)
  3. What kind of equipment is used in modern office? (by Qingjing)
  4. What is the formal technology of communication between head office and overseas office in business? (by Qingjing)
  5. What is the formal technology of communication between office and home? (by Qingjing)
  6. What communication software is used in current office? (by Qingjing)
  7. What is a virtual office? (by Qingjing)
  8. Is there any hierarchical structure in virtual office? (by Qingjing)
  9. What is the communication model of the virtual office? (by Qingjing)
  10. What are the benefits of working in virtual office? (by Qingjing)
  11. What type of organization uses virtual office? (by Qingjing)
  12. What’s the relationship between organization and virtual office? (by Qingjing)
  13. What’s the relationship between architecture and office? (by Qingjing)
  14. How many hours does the staff have to work per day? Per weekend? (by Qingjing)
  15. What’s the security system of current office? (by Qingjing)
  16. How to eliminate the negative influence of time zone? (by Qingjing)