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AEmployees rotate between several offices weekly
BEmployees work in shifts covering the full day
CEmployees have no permanent office space
DEmployees are hired through outside agencies
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: C. Employees have no permanent office space
1. Instead of maintaining expensive offices in multiple locations, some companies send employees home to work.
2. Under the distributed workforce model, employees have no permanent office space.
3. They work from home or on the road instead.
4. Shift patterns, office rotation, and agency hiring describe other arrangements.
_Source: OpenStax Introduction to Business (CC BY 4.0), Ch 13 "Using Technology to Manage Information", section 13.6 The Distributed Workforce_
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