Working Remotely

Best practices for communication with remote employees ensure a more productive, united team.

Remote collaboration may be the right choice for your organization. However, businesses often don’t maximize its impact because they didn’t implement it well initially. Here are some ways you can improve your remote collaboration.

More and more companies see the value of adding or transitioning their employees to remote workers. Understanding the disadvantages will help you better determine if a remote workforce is right for your organization. 

There are challenges and considerations specific to managing remote employees. Reviewing disadvantages and addressing challenges will lead to the successful management of remote employees.

Remote jobs aren’t just the future. They’re the present in more and more businesses. Remote work has been around for years in some form (such as virtual assistants), but COVID-19 accelerated that transition.  

The world has changed immensely to the pandemic and rapid leaps in technology. This is especially true when it comes to the workplace. It can be challenging to keep up with the needs of your employees, protect your data, and ensure it’s all cost-effective. This new work environment can feel overwhelming trying to sort through solutions.

COVID-19 changed the work landscape. Across the country, as lockdowns and social distancing took effect, companies that previously never would have considered it sent people home to begin remote work. The genie is out of the bottle now. Even as the world returns to normal, remote work has tripled in the United States since 2019.

Remote work has taken over the white-collar world. 58% of Americans surveyed by McKinsey had the opportunity to work from home at least one day a week in 2022. The workforce has changed, and working from home is now commonplace.

COVID-19 changed many things, and perhaps the biggest was remote work. Companies that had long been resistant to letting their employees leave the office decided to incorporate full-time work-from-home policies, even after the pandemic restrictions were loosened. The genie is out of the bottle, and there’s no putting it back in.