Co-remote Working Session Scheduling System for Matching Remote Workers
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Solution Overview
Problem
Remote workers experience isolation and loneliness, leading to potential decreases in engagement and productivity, while coworking spaces are not suitable for businesses with established office locations and require commuting, and flexible work arrangements can be costly and emotionally stressful for employees.
Innovation Solution
The concept of co-remote working sessions, where two or more remote workers collaborate at the same location, such as a workspace offered by one of the remote workers, is facilitated through a scheduling system that matches users with compatible workspace and time requirements, ensuring privacy and safety in user matching.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If remote workers work from home, then productivity and cost savings are improved, but emotional health and social interaction deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines remote work with co-working arrangements by matching remote workers with compatible colleagues to work from each other's homes. This merging of isolation with social connection allows workers to maintain the productivity benefits of remote work while experiencing the social interaction benefits of co-working, directly resolving the contradiction between productivity improvement and social deterioration
Solution Approach 2:
The co-remote working session scheduler acts as an intermediary system that facilitates connections between remote workers. It matches workers based on compatibility criteria, schedules co-working sessions, and enables social interaction without requiring physical office spaces, thus mediating between the need for remote work productivity and the need for social connection
2Loss of energy
If employees work from home, then office space costs are reduced, but employee engagement and promotion opportunities deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges the cost benefits of remote work with the engagement benefits of co-working by facilitating scheduled co-remote sessions. Companies can reduce office space costs while maintaining employee engagement through structured social and collaborative work sessions matched through the scheduling system
Solution Approach 2:
The system provides dynamic scheduling of co-remote working sessions, allowing flexible arrangement of when and with whom employees work remotely. This dynamic approach enables companies to optimize both cost savings and engagement by adjusting session frequency and participants based on business needs and employee preferences
3Object-affected harmful factors
If coworking spaces are used, then social interaction and collaboration are improved, but commuting requirements and accessibility deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
Instead of requiring workers to travel to centralized coworking spaces, the patent inverts the approach by bringing coworking to the workers' existing locations (their homes). The scheduling system matches workers to co-work at each other's residences, eliminating commuting while preserving social interaction and collaboration benefits
Data Source
AI summary
Methods and devices of organizing co-remote working sessions between individuals are disclosed. A co-remote working session scheduler comprises a transceiver to receive co-remote working session messages from host and guest users and transmit co-remote working session match messages, a message manager to store and retrieve messages stored in a memory, a message comparator to perform comparisons between received co-remote working session messages and co-remote working session messages retrieved from the memory and generate compatibility scores based on said comparisons, and a match message generator coupled to the message comparator to generate co-remote working session match messages based on said compatibility scores.