Working Practice

 The way that work is usually done in a particular company or organization this is called working practice.

Types of Working Practice:

1.     Teleworking

2.     Remote working

3.     Office-based working

4.     Video conferencing

5.     Phone conferencing

6.     Instant messaging

7.     Faxing

8.     Electronic Faxing

Definition of teleworking

To use information technology (IT) and telecommunications to replace work-related travel. Teleworking allows employees work at home or at a local telework center one or more days per week using communication tools, such as such as phone, fax, modem, Internet teleconferencing, e-mail or IM, to perform work duties from a remote location. The term telework is the term favored in Europe and other countries while telecommute is used more often in the U.S and Canada.

Also known as telecommuting.

Remote working

This is when people work at a distance from the main office. And it is used by travelling salesmen, employees working in a temprorary office they most use PDA's mobile telephones, laptops with wireless networking capacity), doctors on call (They use laptops connected to a high-security VPN)and engineers working on site (they can uuse PDA)

Office-based working

 Its the normal type of working were workers have to go to the office to finish or type their work.

Video conferencing

Workers or people who are looking for jobs will use video conferencing to talk to the other party using softwares which allows us to video chat for example skype or google+1 r msn ...etc. And it is used for interviews or conferences.

Phone conferencing

Workers or People who are looking for jobs will use phone conferencing to talk to the other party using softwares which allows them to call for example Phones,, it is used to reach to other people who are far away for interviews of conferences.

Instant messaging
Its about texting or sending the conferences to the other party, they use sms and mms. Sms is the shortcut of short message service and mms is the shortcut of multimedia messaging service.
Faxing

This machine is connected to the phone line, the document is scanned and then transmitted through phone lines to another fax machine and then it's printed out. The transmition is slow and it is used when exact copies of originals are required and the quality is not very good.
Electronic faxing

sometimes they use the internet faxing and internet faxing is instead of printing out the document and faxing it using the fax machine the user prints it directly using a software to send the fax and it is modern. It saves time and equipments costs lower as the dont use fax machine and there is no need of dedicated fax line and it is also secure and you can send it from anywhere not exactly in the office as they can be downloaded remotely.