ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,307,397, issued on May 20, was assigned to Tele-Commuter Resources Inc. (St. Paul, Minn.).
"Workforce virtualization" was invented by John Sanger (Shoreview, Minn.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for developing and implementing a workforce virtualization program comprises six phases. A virtualization assessment and profiling process uses analytic methods to determine the feasibility of virtualizing some or all of an organization's workers. A mitigation assessment is conducted to identify cost-effective means of reducing barriers to virtualization. Scenario assessment and modeling phase allows an organization to develop...