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A cloud system is used to sustain effective teleworking and tools establishment supporting virtual teams of employees situated around the globe. Huczynski and Buchanan [7] define a virtual team as a team “that relies on technology mediated communication, while crossing boundaries of geography, time, culture and organization to accomplish an interdependent task” [7]. It can be said that every team functions in its own way. Additionally, physical separation of the team members across the boundaries will be different for each team, not only making it more unique than other teams but also creating inconsistencies within as teams grow and evolve over time. Shin [8] argues that there is a range or scope of “virtualness”— the larger the dispersion in a team, the more amplified is this virtualness [8]. Hence, it is very important that there should be an effective way of interaction, communication and level of engagement between team members, in order to implement successful virtual teams. This is the most vital yet challenging part of team management for such teams. According to Duart and Snyder [9], critical success factors in managing virtual teams and facilitating effective interaction between members consist of the right selection of IT tools, team members’ competencies, the leadership and culture of the team, the process standardization and training of team members towards these goals [9].