Home Roast Has Two Warehouses and an Extensive Website Selling

question 89

Multiple Choice

Home Roast has two warehouses and an extensive website selling coffee online.It employs over 100 customer service employees,most of whom work from home.Is Home Roast a virtual organization?

• A) Yes, because it is widely dispersed, has no stores, and relies on ICTs.
• B) Yes, because it has a website and a small number of employees.
• C) No, because it has brick-and-mortar warehouses.
• D) No, because it is too large an organization to be strictly virtual.

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Definitions:

Fiber Optics

A technology that uses thin strands of glass or plastic fibers to transmit data as pulses of light, enabling high-speed internet and telecommunications.

Internet Backbone

The principal data routes between large, strategically interconnected networks and core routers on the Internet.

HTML Tag

Tags that surround and define HTML content (such as <b> and </b>, which indicate bolding).

KML

A file format used to display geographic data in an Earth browser, such as Google Earth, allowing users to create and share map-based visualizations.