Finding the Balance: How to Create a Hybrid Work Environment
As the business world and worker expectations continue to evolve, many businesses are left with a future of work dilemma: return to the office, remote employees, or a hybrid work environment. Each has their advantages and disadvantages from both an employer and employee perspective. Recent research shows that employees like remote work, but also miss the day-to-day interactions […]
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What is Hybrid Work? And How Can It Benefit Your Company?
The expectations of workers in America have changed. Most companies resisted the idea of remote work until 2020, when the COVID-19 response demanded new levels of flexibility. For many companies, remote work no longer became a perk, it became a necessity. Over the past year and half, two trends have emerged: one expected and the other […]
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What Is ‘Windowed Work’ and Why It Could Be the Key to Your Remote Work Success
The 9-to-5 workday may now be a thing of the past—and good riddance! It’s time for businesses to really adjust to the fact that your remote employees aren’t working nonstop during so-called normal business hours. Fortunately, “windowed work” can boost productivity and the quality of work performed by remote employees. What is ‘windowed work’? Instead […]
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Zoom Gloom: Seven Tips for Combating Virtual Meeting Fatigue
Back when everyone first started working from home because of COVID-19, the Internet proclaimed, “Now we’ll finally see which meetings could have been emails!” Months later, some telecommuters might now find the joke a lot less funny. As workers and managers have increasingly collaborated online instead of in-person, meetings may have actually become more frequent. […]
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Minimizing the Loneliness and Burnout Associated with Long-Term Remote Work
Remote work has been on a slow and steady rise in recent years, but the recent pandemic pushed the movement to the forefront of workplace conversations and forced the hand of previously resistant CEOs everywhere. The question has now shifted from is remote work doable to how to make it sustainable. Employees appreciate the freedom […]
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How to Develop a Long-Term Remote Work Plan For Your Company
Companies that have sent staff to work from home as a temporary measure may find unexpected benefits in having a long-term remote work plan. In the past, a remote workforce was a frightening proposition for most companies filled with fears of lower productivity, collaboration, and quality. But as the past several weeks have proven, a […]
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Tips for Combating Remote Work Security Risks
Before—and even more so, during—the COVID-19 pandemic, many businesses began making adjustments for employees to work from home. If your organization didn’t already have a business continuity plan for this type of scenario, then it’s an area where management has needed to improvise. One area of focus that cannot be overlooked while developing this plan […]
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Coronavirus and Beyond: Best Practices for Working From Home Due to COVID-19
Working from home has become the new norm for companies to move fully remote in order to stop the spread of COVID-19. For some this was already a part of their everyday routine, for others, it’s a result of their newly enacted business continuity plan. Working from home inherently comes with many distractions—from TV, food, […]
Read ArticleHow to Make Meetings with Remote Employees Effective
April 3, 2019 Written by the HR Pros Even with video conferencing and messaging apps, fully involving remote employees in team and company meetings remains a challenge. There may be no replacing the experience of being physically in the room, but you can take steps to make these meetings more productive and inclusive. The most […]
Read ArticleMaking Telecommuting Work for Your Company
October 14, 2015 According to a survey conducted by GlobalWorkplaceAnalytics.com, regular telework among those who are not self-employed has grown by 103 percent since 2005. 3.7 million employees, which is approximately 2.5 percent of the workforce, now work at home at least half of the time. They also note that 50 percent of the workforce […]
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