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including J.C. Penney, Wells Fargo, Dell
Computers, and Prudential, he couldn’t
think of a single one that didn’t use
teams.
Some of these teams are virtual,
working together from remote locations,
but others demand a tremendous
amount of face-to-face interaction, in
the form of team-building exercises and
retreats, shared online calendars that
announce employees’ availability for
meetings, and physical workplaces that
afford little privacy. Today’s employees
inhabit open office plans, in which no
one has a room of his or her own, the
only walls are the ones holding up the
building, and senior executives operate
from the center of the boundary-less
floor along with everyone else. In fact,
over 70 percent of today’s employees
work in an open plan; companies using
them include Procter & Gamble, Ernst
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