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Remote Work

Remote work is an employment arrangement in which employees perform their duties from locations outside employer offices, using networked access to enterprise systems and collaboration tools, which requires formal policies, security controls, and architectural design for connectivity and data protection in large organizations.

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curl -X POST https://mcp.decisioninsights.ai/api/mcp-public \
  -H "content-type: application/json" \
  -H "accept: application/json, text/event-stream" \
  -d '{"id":1,"jsonrpc":"2.0","method":"tools/call","params":{"arguments":{"slug":"remote-workforce"},"name":"di_get_term"}}'

REST

GET https://api.decisioninsights.ai/api/public/v1/glossary/fefb8357-ea5c-4c2a-80ed-8c957751fb14

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It's a known term One entry, with its type (topic) name
It sits in a glossary Linked to Hybrid Work, Remote Services, Remote Management, Outsourced inDefinedTermSet
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