Testimony

Ann Bamesberger and Eric Richert are pioneering thought leaders in area of distributed work. For nearly 20 years they have developed and integrated programs, practices and technologies for collaborating across time and space that optimize effectiveness while minimizing social costs to employees. Rather than purvey canned solutions, Ann and Eric understand the value of tailoring programs to contents and the nature of the work at hand. What sets Ann and Eric apart from so many others who promote distributed work is not just their long experience but their pragmatism built on a body of solid empirical research which they have assembled over the years in collaboration with researchers in a variety of universities.

-Stephen R. Barley
Richard Weiland Professor , Co-Director, Center for Work, Technology and Organization Department of Management Science and Engineering

Testimony

Eric, Ann, and Mark are thought leaders in developing "alternative" work environments that support the ways that work is done in today's enterprises. Not only do they understand how people work, they appreciate differences between cultures and across geographic boundaries. The OpenWork environment they developed at Sun Microsystems became a key value for Sun, fully supportive of employees in their work and of Sun's vision of networked computing.

-Crawford Beveridge
Former Executive Vice President, Human Resources, Sun Microsystems