Team virtuality has been mostly conceptualized as structural features, such as the percentage of time team members communicate via technology. However, the perception of distance and of information deficits (team perceived virtuality, TPV) may be an indispensable construct to understand virtual teams’ functioning. The lockdowns imposed on most countries due to COVID-19 created virtual teams with high degrees of structural virtuality. With structural virtuality held constant among teams, we explore configurations of work characteristics (autonomy, interdependence, and organizational support) that influence TPV. With a sample of 296 multinational workers, a Latent Profile Analysis identified four distinct profiles of those work characteristics. Those profiles related differently to TPV. Contrary to previous findings, interdependence seems to play an important role in these teams high in structural virtuality when their autonomy is also high, highlighting the pivotal role of frequent interaction among team members, under conditions of high structural virtuality.

团队虚拟化主要被概念化为结构特征，例如团队成员通过技术交流的时间百分比。但是，对距离和信息不足的感知（团队感知的虚拟性，TPV）可能是理解虚拟团队运作的必不可少的结构。由于COVID-19而对大多数国家/地区施加的封锁使虚拟团队具有高度的结构虚拟性。在团队之间保持结构虚拟性不变的情况下，我们探索了影响TPV的工作特征（自主性，相互依赖性和组织支持）的配置。通过对296名跨国工人的抽样调查，潜在特征分析确定了这些工作特征的四个不同特征。这些配置文件与冠捷科技有不同的关联。与以前的发现相反，